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Antarctica, Earth's least understood and most remote continent, is threatened by human disturbances and climate-related changes, underscoring the imperative for biodiversity inventories to inform conservation. Antarctic ecosystems support unique species and genetic diversity…

Human activities in Antarctica pose significant threats to marine ecosystems through accidental fuel spills, primarily as aresult of shipping incidents. This risk is likely to increase due to rises in shipping frequency in the Southern Ocean.

One of the serious threats to the Antarctic marine ecosystem is the release of large volumes of petroleum fuel. Numerous fuel spill incidents have occurred and risks of a major spill are increasing due to continued expansion of human activity in the Antarctic region.

Environmental pollution resulting from fuel spills in Antarctic waters is increasingly likely with the rise in shipping associated with tourism and research activities, both of which require and transport large quantities of fuel.

Fuel spills in Antarctic waters are increasingly likely with the rise in shipping in the region related to tourism and research activities, both of which require and transport large quantities of fuel. While fuel dispersants are not currently used in the management of fuel spills in Antarctica…

As zooplankton is an important food source for consumers, and a major source of recruits to the benthic community, impacts on sensitive zooplankton communities have the potential to significantly alter nearshore marine ecosystems in Antarctica.

As zooplankton is an important food source for consumers, and a major source of … recruits to the benthic community, impacts on sensitive zooplankton communities have the … potential to significantly alter nearshore marine ecosystems in Antarctica.

Despite the widespread use and transport of fuels in Antarctica, there is very limited data available on the behaviour and weathering of these fuels in the Antarctic marine environment. The potential impacts of a fuel spill on marine biota are largely unknown.

Oceanographic measurements were conducted along WOCE Southern Ocean meridional section SR3 between Tasmania and Antarctica, and along the part of WOCE Southern Ocean zonal section S4 lying between approximately 110 and 162 degrees E, from December 1994 to February 1995.

The positive and negative effects engendered by Antarctic employment have been well-documented within expeditioner populations. However, research to date has primarily focused on individual and organisational factors that influence these outcomes.

Abundance and grazing impacts of krill, salps and herbivorous copepods were investigated in … Antarctic waters along the 1408E meridian, south of Australia, during the summers of 2002 and 2003. North of the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (SB-ACC)…

Mineral equilibria modelling and electron microprobe chemical dating of monazite in granulite facies … metapelitic assemblages from the MacRobertson Land coastline, Rayner Complex, east Antarctica, are … consistent with an !anticlockwise" Neoproterozoic P–T–t path. Metamorphism occurred at c.

This study examines the molecular-genetic divergence and evolution of Australian aquatic micro-Crustacea Daphnia … and Daphniopsis. The results indicate that species of Daphniopsis are accommodated within the genus Daphnia. Although their phyletic integrity is no longer supported…

Patterns of fishing ground selection were characterised using STATLANT and CCAMLR … fine-scale data. Among the 15 small-scale management units (SSMUs) within Subareas … 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3, including the pelagic SSMUs, only one-third were identified as major … contributors to the total catch.

>The Southern Ocean is characterised by the unique Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) which flows eastward uninterrupted around the Antarctic continent. In theory then, the species composition of zooplankton would be expected to be the same in any part of the current…