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Krill fishing and conservation in the Southern Ocean

Publication 30 June, 2022

…change seen elsewhere on Earth. Climate change has the potential to alter marine ecosystems significantly. CCAMLR is concerned about the threat of climate change to fisheries and ecosystems (www.ccamlr.org/en/resolution-30/xxviii-2009), as…

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Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

Publication 1 May, 2022

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Understanding and protecting the world’s biodiversity: the role and legacy of the SCAR Programme “Evolution and biodiversity in the Antarctic”

Publication 1 January, 2012

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The impacts of climate change on circumpolar biodiversity

Publication 1 January, 2012

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How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co-benefit biodiversity?

Publication 1 April, 2022

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Key impacts of climate engineering on biodiversity and ecosystems, with priorities for future research

Publication 1 December, 2016

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A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation

Publication 7 July, 2022

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Highly diverse, poorly studied and uniquely threatened by climate change: an assessment of marine biodiversity on South Georgia’s continental shelf

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Benthic biodiversity, carbon storage and the potential for increasing negative feedbacks on climate change in shallow waters of the Antarctic Peninsula

Publication 17 February, 2022

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Antarctic marine biodiversity – What do we know about the distribution of life in the Southern Ocean?

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Biodiversity of air-borne microorganisms at Halley station Antarctica

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Polar biodiversity data: from a national marine platform to a global data portal

Publication 14 October, 2022

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What inhabits the South Sandwich Islands deep-sea? Biodiversity and biogeography of bathyal communities using predators as biological samplers

Publication 1 March, 2024

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Southern Ocean deep-sea biodiversity: sampling strategies and predicting responses to climate change

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Antarctic marine biodiversity challenged by global change: the CAML/SCAR-MarBIN benchmark

Publication 1 January, 2007

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The Time Machine framework: monitoring and prediction of biodiversity loss

Publication 1 February, 2022

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Threat management priorities for conserving Antarctic biodiversity

Publication 22 December, 2022

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Biodiversity in marine invertebrate responses to acute warming revealed by a comparative multi-omics approach

Publication 1 January, 2017

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Continental governance and environmental management mechanisms under the Antarctic Treaty System: sufficient for the biodiversity challenges of the this century?

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Intermediate ice scour disturbance is key to maintaining a peak in biodiversity within the shallows of the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Publication 18 August, 2021

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Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

Publication 21 April, 2023

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IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change

Publication 1 January, 2021

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Physiological diversity, biodiversity patterns and global climate change: testing key hypotheses involving temperature and oxygen

Publication 17 June, 2019

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Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean

Publication 27 November, 2019

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A marine biodiversity observation network for genetic monitoring of hard-bottom communities (ARMS-MBON)

Publication 30 November, 2020

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The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity

Publication 25 June, 2015

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Eukaryotic microbiota in the surface waters and sea ice of the Southern Ocean: aspects of physiology, ecology and biodiversity in a ‘two-phase’ ecosystem

Publication 1 November, 1996

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Invasive non‐native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region

Publication 1 April, 2020

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Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity

Publication 1 October, 2022

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The first comprehensive description of the biodiversity and biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic intertidal communities

Publication 1 June, 2016

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The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity

Publication 1 May, 2014

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Biodiversity of echinoids and their epibionts around the Scotia Arc, Antarctica

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for penguins in Antarctica, targets for conservation action.

Publication 20 January, 2021

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Spatial and Temporal Variability in Terrestrial Antarctic Biodiversity

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Understanding the link between sea ice, ice scour and Antarctic benthic biodiversity – the need for cross-station and international collaboration

Publication 1 March, 2017

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A review on the biodiversity, distribution and trophic role of cephalopods in the Arctic and Antarctic marine ecosystems under a changing ocean

Publication 1 May, 2018

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Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity in a changing world

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Vulnerability of Antarctic shelf biodiversity to predicted regional warming

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Cenozoic palaeogeography and the rise of modern biodiversity patterns

Publication 1 January, 2002

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Editorial: Effects of ice loss on marine biodiversity

Publication 11 November, 2021

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Challenges of deep-sea biodiversity assessments in the Southern Ocean

Publication 1 September, 2014

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Biodiversity and biogeography of southern temperate and polar bryozoans

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Polar science: bid for freely accessible biodiversity archive

Publication 1 January, 2009

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Chemical limnology in coastal East Antarctic lakes: monitoring future climate change in centres of endemism and biodiversity

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Biodiversity change after climate-induced ice-shelf collapse in the Antarctic

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Fossil angiosperm wood: its role in the reconstruction of biodiversity and palaeoenvironment

Publication 1 January, 2000

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Connecting biodiversity data during the IPY: the path towards e-polar science

Publication 1 January, 2013

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In-situ image analysis of habitat heterogeneity and benthic biodiversity in the Prince Gustav Channel, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula.

Publication 28 January, 2021

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Assessing aerial biodiversity over Keller Peninsula, King George Island, maritime Antarctica, using DNA metabarcoding

Publication 18 March, 2024

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Environmental complexity and biodiversity: the multi-layered evolutionary history of a log-dwelling velvet worm in montane temperate Australia

Publication 17 December, 2013

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Palaeobiogeography and biodiversity change: the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic radiations

Publication 1 January, 2002

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Antarctic marine biodiversity: adaptations, environments and responses to change

Publication 1 November, 2018

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The State of the Polar Oceans 2018

Publication 17 July, 2018

…least understood environments on our planet. They respond to global temperature change; absorb heat and carbon from the atmosphere, including that produced by humans; they sustain millions of seabirds, whales…

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Marine Protected Areas

Publication 30 June, 2022

…habitats and species. However, we live on a rapidly changing planet. Human activities and climate change are having a major impact on the oceans and on marine life, which could…

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Use of emerging technologies to help measure fjordic biodiversity and blue carbon: mini-manned submarines and autonomous underwater vehicle swarms

Publication 27 February, 2023

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Evolution and biodiversity of Antarctic organisms: a molecular perspective

Publication 1 January, 2007

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Bioluminescence in cephalopods: biodiversity, biogeography and research trends

Publication 27 June, 2023

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Seaweed biodiversity in the south-western Antarctic Peninsula: Surveying macroalgal community composition in the Adelaide Island / Marguerite Bay region over a 35-year time span

Publication 1 November, 2014

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Metabarcoding the Antarctic Peninsula biodiversity using a multi-gene approach

Publication 13 April, 2022

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The non-marine invertebrate fauna of Deception Island (Maritime Antarctic): a baseline for a comprehensive biodiversity database

Publication 1 January, 2000

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The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate biodiversity of the archipelagoes of the Barents Sea; Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya

Publication 1 January, 2014

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The biodiversity and ecology of Antarctic lakes: models for evolution

Publication 1 January, 2007

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Barcoding Antarctic biodiversity: current status and the CAML initiative, a case study of marine invertebrates.

Publication 1 January, 2009

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Terrestrial biodiversity in Antarctica – recent advances and future challenges

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Biodiversity and biogeography of Southern Ocean pycnogonids

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPA): a case study at Rothera Point providing tools and perspectives for the implementation of the ASPA network in the Antarctic Peninsula

Publication 12 May, 2018

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Revealing higher than expected meiofaunal diversity in Antarctic sediments: a metabarcoding approach

Publication 21 July, 2017

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Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat

Publication 6 July, 2017

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Organisms and responses to environmental change

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Likely responses of the Antarctic benthos to climate-related changes in physical disturbance during the 21st century, based primarily on evidence from the West Antarctic Peninsula region

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Editors’ comment

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Editorial: Polar genomics in a changing world

Publication 3 July, 2023

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The need for increased protection of Antarctica’s inland waters

Publication 1 April, 2023

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Nitrogen inputs by marine vertebrates drive abundance and richness in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems

Publication 20 May, 2019

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Mollusca collected by Agassiz trawl from the 2016 SO-AntEco (JR15005) expedition to the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica – data

Publication 17 October, 2023

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The South Sandwich Islands – a community of meta-populations across all trophic levels

Publication 18 June, 2018

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Disturbance ecology of the shallow Antarctic Benthos

Publication 4 May, 2022

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Antarctic seabirds as indicators of climate change

Publication 30 June, 2022

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Non-native species in Antarctic terrestrial environments: how climate change and increasing human activity are compounding the threat of invasion

Publication 4 January, 2023

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Understanding the structure and functioning of polar pelagic ecosystems to predict the impacts of change

Publication 1 December, 2016

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Patterns, processes and vulnerability of Southern Ocean benthos – a decadal leap in knowledge and understanding

Publication 1 September, 2013

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Structuring effects of climate-related environmental factors on Antarctic microbial mat communities

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Geographic range shift responses to climate change by Antarctic benthos: where we should look

Publication 1 January, 2009

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Cenozoic climate change and diversification on the continental shelf and slope: evolution of gastropod diversity in the family Solariellidae (Trochoidea)

Publication 1 April, 2013

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Aerobiology over the Southern Ocean – Implications for bacterial colonization of Antarctica

Publication 1 November, 2022

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Deciphering mollusc shell production: The roles of genetic mechanisms through to ecology, aquaculture and biomimetics

Publication 1 December, 2020

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Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota

Publication 1 January, 2006

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Biophysical and habitat changes in response to climate alteration in the Arctic and Antarctic

Publication 1 January, 2003

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Antarctic microbial diversity: the basis of polar ecosystem processes

Publication 1 November, 1996

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Geothermal activity helps life survive glacial cycles

Publication 15 April, 2014

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Pattern and process in marine biogeography: a view from the poles

Publication 1 January, 2004

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Decline in plankton diversity and carbon flux with reduced sea ice extent along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Publication 16 August, 2021

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Taxonomy 2.0: computer-aided identification tools to assist Antarctic biologists in the field and in the laboratory

Publication 1 February, 2021

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Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems: responses to environmental change

Publication 1 January, 2006

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Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities

Publication 1 June, 2021

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A reversal of fortunes: climate change ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in Antarctic Peninsula penguins

Publication 12 June, 2014

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Southern Ocean food-webs and climate change: A short review and future directions

Publication 11 March, 2024

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Societal importance of Antarctic negative feedbacks on climate change: blue carbon gains from sea ice, ice shelf and glacier losses.

Publication 7 September, 2021

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Genetic history, structure and gene flow among populations of Belgica antarctica, the only free-living insect in the western Antarctic Peninsula

Publication 1 June, 2023

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