Arctic/Antarctic
Brief communication: Increasing shortwave absorption over the Arctic Ocean is not balanced by trends in the Antarctic
... the Arctic, a longer sea ice melt season (Markus et ...2008). Antarctic sea ice is mainly melting from below as the ice drifts away from the continent into warmer circumpolar waters, in con- trast to the ...
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A compendium and functional characterization of mammalian genes involved in adaptation to Arctic or Antarctic environments
... Here we present a compendium comprising of 416 mam- malian genes involved in adaptations to cold environments. These 416 genes were revealed based on the intersections of positively selected gene lists from six mammalian ...
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Analysis of the performance of a ship-borne scanning wind lidar in the Arctic and Antarctic
... titude heading reference system. This is the first time that a wind lidar was operated on an icebreaker in the Antarc- tic. A processing chain including quality control tests with a new empirical SNR threshold method and ...
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Assessment of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice predictability in CMIP5 decadal hindcasts
... September Arctic (seasonal minimum) and Antarctic (seasonal maximum) sea ...September Antarctic sea ice, rather than the month of seasonal minimum like the Arctic, are that (1) sea ice in the ...
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New estimates of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent during September 1964 from recovered Nimbus I satellite imagery
... Here we analyze data from the Nimbus I AVCS sensor and demonstrate the ability to obtain useful sea ice extent estimates as well as other potential information on the sea ice cover. Nimbus I did not reach its planned ...
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On the influence of model physics on simulations of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice
... We have investigated the sensitivity of an ocean-sea ice model to the representation of physics in its sea ice com- ponent: two hindcast simulations have been studied over the period 1983–2007, for both Arctic and ...
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Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic
... three Antarctic islands lying on a latitudinal ...which Antarctic sites were colonised by fungi based purely on their frequency of occur- rence across global sites, with no environmental selection or ...
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The polar sublime in contemporary poetry of Arctic and Antarctic exploration
... the Antarctic plateau, but differs in asserting that the sublime is first and foremost a ‘landscape category’,59 a category in response to which ‘language ...the Antarctic plateau in October 1903, Scott ...
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Uncovering biological soil crusts: carbon content and structure of intact Arctic, Antarctic and alpine biological soil crusts
... These frequently diverse cyanobacterial communities within a BSC can be categorized into three major groups based on functional traits (Weber et al., 2016) found in hot and cold deserts worldwide (Lacap-Bulger et al., ...
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Non stationary drivers of polar sea ice area
... in Arctic sea ice area and an increase Antarctic sea ice area over their respective time ...decreasing Arctic sea ice area, by a factor 18, and increasing Antarctic sea ice area, by a factor ...
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The landscape of European Polar Research
... This document provides a strategic overview and portfolio of European polar research infrastructures in the Arctic and Antarctic controlled and owned by European countries inclusive of the Russian ...
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Vascular Plants of the Maritime Antarctic: Origin and Adaptation
... Ant- arctic indigenous species, the majority of researchers ad- here to the hypothesis of post-Pleistocenic colonization of the region by these plants ...the Antarctic environment with their dias- pores ...
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Diversity of culturable psychrotrophic bacteria from arctic soil samples
... and antarctic), ocean, freshwater, sediments, soils, permafrost, ice, glaciers, cold deserts, alpine soils, lakes and snow (Fendrihan and Negoiţă, ...The arctic is one of the coldest environment found at ...
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Adaptations to polar life in mammals and birds
... This Review presents a broad overview of adaptations of truly Arctic and Antarctic mammals and birds to the challenges of polar life. The polar environment may be characterized by grisly cold, scarcity of ...
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Managing fishing in the sub Antarctic
... Miller, D.G.M. 2007 (23:xi) : Managing fishing in the sub-Antarctic. PapersandProceedingsofthe Roya!Societyo[Tasmania 141(1): 121-140. https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.141.1.121 ISSN 0080-4703. CCAMLR Secretariat, ...
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Perspectives on Antarctic conservation: an analysis of New Zealand Antarctic stakeholder views
... of Antarctic bases around the continent you really have to wonder what the objectives for that are, is this really for research? Or is this a way of actually claiming a stake of Antarctica? … That whole ...
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The European Union in the Arctic: A Pole Position? Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 4/2012, December 2012
... Such a convergence of analysis does not mean that the EU and China support or supported a new treaty for the same reasons. Indeed, China’s primary reason for such a position could be construed as support for the Chinese ...
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Sustainable development and the Arctic : An imperative in search of a uniting agenda
... Chris Southcott form Lakehead University (Canada) in turn explored how sustainable development could also be achieved by extracting non-renewable resources, such as oil and gas. At first sight there are many arguments ...
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Spatial, temporal and within-species variation in the foraging ecology of a marine predator across a dynamic seascape
... of arctic regions at southerly latitudes have been changing due to the recent northward range expansion of subarctic fish and plankton species (Wassman et ...from Arctic Cod to Capelin and Sand lance at ...
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Arctic Rabies – A Review
... in arctic areas (Schneider et al. 1985), and the arctic fox is regarded as the main host of this virus variant (Johnston & Fong ...The arctic strain has also been isolated from other animal ...
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