The Antarctic Environment
Impacts of local human activities on the Antarctic environment
... northern Antarctic Peninsula and southern archipelagos of the Scotia ...The Antarctic Treaty System and its instruments, in particular the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ...
31
Two Antarctic penguin genomes reveal insights into their evolutionary history and molecular changes related to the Antarctic environment.
... The unique morphology and remarkable life histories of penguins have attracted broad interest from scientists as well as the general public. However, most previous studies focused on ecological, physiological, ...
15
Two Antarctic penguin genomes reveal insights into their evolutionary history and molecular changes related to the Antarctic environment
... The unique morphology and remarkable life histories of penguins have attracted broad interest from scientists as well as the general public. However, most previous studies focused on ecological, physiological, ...
15
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 ...
43
Semiautomated detection and mapping of vegetation distribution in the Antarctic environment using spatial-spectral characteristics of WorldView-2 imagery.
... 3.3. Accuracy Assessment The results of the extraction methods were assessed using visual analysis and statistical approaches. To test the contribution of varying land cover features in causing misclassification in ...
35
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] ...
17
Polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in the antarctic environment
... Convergence. The pattern of PBDEs suggests that south polar skuas breeding at King George Island may winter in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Although persistent in the environment, POPs are subject to slow ...
182
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 ...
492
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 ...
37
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, ...
45
Perspectives on Antarctic conservation: an analysis of New Zealand Antarctic stakeholder views
... the Antarctic environment and creating an uncertain future for the ...the Antarctic beyond the year ...the Antarctic, as well as the ATS’s operation and political nature hindering ...
179
The role of iron as a micronutrient in the Antarctic sea ice environment
... THESIS ABSTRACT It is now understood that the Southern Ocean is a high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll zone; production being limited by the micronutrient iron (Fe). The seasonal formation and subsequent melt of ...
163
Distribution and fate of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons in Antarctic fauna and environment
... Although many data exist on the alkane content and composition of various compo- nents of temperate marine ecosystems there is as yet little known about their polynuclear aromati[r] ...
10
Simultaneous Detection of Alkylamines in the Surface Ocean and Atmosphere of the Antarctic Sympagic Environment
... sea” source regions were 0.03 and 0.02, respectively, falling in the range of literature reported values. The pioneering study of Legrand and Ducroz (1998) 67 discussed the influence of polar ocean and penguin emissions ...
30
The genome sequence of the Antarctic bullhead notothen reveals evolutionary adaptations to a cold environment
... near-shore Antarctic waters and may have a circumantarctic distribution ...the Antarctic bullhead notothen, ...an Antarctic bullhead notothen, ...these Antarctic fish, provides important clues ...
14
Adaptations to an extreme environment: retinal organisation and spectral properties of photoreceptors in Antarctic notothenioid fish
... doi:10.1242/jeb.01647 The Notothenioid suborder of teleosts comprises a number of species that live below the sea ice of the Antarctic. The presence of ‘antifreeze’ glycoproteins in these fish as an adaptation to ...
14
Antarctic exploration
... Murray says :— " When we turn to the waters of the Antarctic ocean we find at the present time a great profusion of life, both animal and vegetable. During the[r] ...
9
Antarctic exploration
... along Victoria Land until Eoss was able definitely to fix the position of the South Magnetic Pole ; but owing to the.. impossibility of scaling the ice barrier and traversing the land, t[r] ...
16
Antarctic Geopolitics
... “The Chinese Antarctic presence, however, has grown quickly since 1981. It's currently running three research stations on that continent, all in the area claimed by Australia. Two years ago Xi Jinping visited the ...
30
Antarctic Mosses
... as Antarctic mosses tend to replicate asexually, they would not have a local bank of reserve spores with which tore-colonise areas after adverse short-term fluctuations in temperature and moisture ...
11