Antarctic environment
Are the SCAR/COMNAP guidelines effective in monitoring the impacts of human activites on the Antarctic environment?
... According to the COMNAP Guidelines, an “activity” is “an event or process resulting from, or associated with, the presence of humans in Antarctica, and/or which may lead to the presence of humans in Antarctica” (COMNAP ...
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Impacts of local human activities on the Antarctic environment
... that Antarctic wilderness is being modified through activities or relics of former activities that can be readily sensed by humans such as by sight or sound, as well as those that cannot be readily sensed, such as ...
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Protection of the Antarctic Environment: Rethinking the Problems and Prospects
... The Beeby Draft also proposes creation of a Scientific, Technical and Environmental Advisory Committee, 37 which ostensibly could serve as a forum for exchange and app[r] ...
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Antarctic Futures: Governance, Scientific Expeditions, Commercial Tourism, Resource Exploitation and Climate Change
... the Antarctic environment are commonly considered in isolation, but in order to comprehensively assess whether the existing governance regime will last a conjunctive approach is ...
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Antarctic Specially Protected Areas ARE THEY SERVING THE ANTARCTIC WELL?
... the Antarctic environment, biological information should be incorporated within the model used to define ecological ...on Antarctic Research (SCAR), a group of experts on Antarctic science, ...
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Antarctica the Triumph of the Global Commons
... At the XI Consultative Meeting in Buenos Aires 1981 the framework for CRAMRA was set up. This framework contained five point, the first two obliges the parties to continue to address the issue of Antarctic mineral ...
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Vascular Plants of the Maritime Antarctic: Origin and Adaptation
... While recognizing D. antarctica and C. quitensis as Ant- arctic indigenous species, the majority of researchers ad- here to the hypothesis of post-Pleistocenic colonization of the region by these plants [5,7,8,30]. At ...
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The politics of the Antarctic : a case study of the environment in international relations
... [the] Antarctic brotherhood [sic] which has cost us so much and of which we are proud" (Final Report ...over Antarctic matters or to negotiate some kind of regulatory mechanism in the face of entrenched ...
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The genome sequence of the Antarctic bullhead notothen reveals evolutionary adaptations to a cold environment
... in six fish (Figure 1A, Additional file 1: Table S10 and Additional file 2: Figure S4). Orthologs showing poor align- ment were removed, and those with high synonymous sub- stitution rates (over 3) and excessive ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment Under the Protocol on Environment Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and Australian Legislation
... The final decision on proposed PA and IEE activities in the AAT is a national one, although it should take into account the views expressed by ATCPs, ATCM, the CEP, and other NGOs. While economic and operational factors ...
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Rethinking Tasmania’s regionality from an Antarctic perspective: flipping the map
... Perhaps in recognition of the diverse ways in which a region or a city might be connected to Antarctica, researchers have recently been suggesting critical approaches to the ‘gateway’ label. C. Michael Hall points to a ...
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Bioprospecting in areas outside national jurisdiction: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
... The Antarctic Treaty parties are attempting to regulate fishing, mining and other human activities and are, in effect, endeavouring to establish a true global ...the Antarctic Treaty parties need comply ...
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Recommendation for a Council Decision authorizing the Commission to negotiate on behalf of the Community for the establishment of a convention on the conservation of antarctic marine living resources. COM (79) 20 final, 27 February 1979
... Whereas the Consultative Parties of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 have ·proposed that a Convention on the conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources should be established; Whereas [r] ...
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Adaptations to an extreme environment: retinal organisation and spectral properties of photoreceptors in Antarctic notothenioid fish
... The organisation of the cone receptor mosaics is different in the retinae of two related nototheniid species, D. mawsoni and T. hansoni. The deeper dwelling D. mawsoni (mainly around 1600·m, but sometimes up at 300–500·m ...
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The United States and Antarctica: Rethinking the Interplay of Law and Interests
... The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources culminated a process of rulemaking for the protection of Antarctic natural resources developed b[r] ...
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Investigating the impact of aeolian deposition to the Southern Ocean using dissolved aluminium concentrations
... Luxury iron uptake has been demonstrated for some phytoplankton, allowing them to better adapt to episodic atmospheric supply ( 47). Iron availability influences algal community struc- ture as well as overall ...
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Antarctic science and the news media
... on Antarctic science and research?” has provided an interesting ...of Antarctic science and ...that Antarctic science and research is under-reported with The Nelson Mail publishing ...
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Assessment of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice predictability in CMIP5 decadal hindcasts
... Eleven CMIP5 models are used to evaluate the decadal hind- cast/prediction of sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic. These 11 models provide a set of 10-year-long hindcast sim- ulations, which was initialized ...
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Missing link in the Southern Ocean: sampling the marine benthic fauna of remote Bouvet Island
... The biogeographic relations of the deeper shelf fauna around Bouvet were compared with those of high Ant- arctic, Antarctic Peninsula, and Magellanic samples ta- ken during previous Polarstern cruises. We did not ...
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Survival of intracellular freezing by the Antarctic nematode Panagrolaimus davidi
... their bodies only if the ice is confined to the body cavity and to extracellular spaces. Intracellular ice formation is believed to be fatal. This conclusion is based on studies of the cryopreservation of mammalian ...
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