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1 January, 1976
The growth of the rhizomatous perennial Acaena magellanica was studied in a variety of communities on South Georgia (54-55⚬ S, 36-38⚬ W). Maximum leaf area per shoot and leaf number…Read more on Dry matter production in Acaena (Rosaceae) on a subantarctic island
1 January, 1976
The use of oats as phytometers for seasonal studies of microclimatic favourability and nutrient limitations is reported. The effect of age and development on growth parameters in long‐term experiments is…1 January, 1976
It has long been supposed that repeated exposure of a man to cold conditions might be expected to produce changes within him which would better enable him to stand up…1 January, 1976
Sediment samples obtained from three freshwater lakes and off‐shore coastal marine waters on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica have been inoculated into selective enrichment media for purple non‐sulphur bacteria…1 January, 1975 by William Block
Analyses are presented of 190 measurements of individual respiration rate for the complete size range of Cryptopygus antarcticus Willem. A Cartesian Diver micro-respirometer was used at Signy Island (Maritime Antarctic)…Read more on Respiration Studies on the Antarctic Collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus
1 January, 1975
Oral glucose tolerance tests were performed in 12 young men in the Antarctic. Tests were done in the morning and afternoon at three monthly intervals (March, June, September, December). The…Read more on Diurnal and seasonal variation in oral glucose tolerance: Studies in the Antarctic
1 January, 1975
Plasma insulin and growth hormone levels were measured during morning and afternoon oral glucose tolerance tests performed on 12 young men at three monthly intervals in the Antarctic. No diurnal…1 January, 1975
A topic of current interest to Antarctic marine biologists is the possibility of a biome at considerable distances from the open sea under the vast, permanent ice shelves that fringe…Read more on First direct evidence of life under Antarctic shelf ice
1 January, 1975
We have suggested1 that Antarctic lakes offer a more favourable physical environment to certain species of moss than the surrounding land. We now present evidence in support of the wider…Read more on Is the vegetation of continental Antarctica predominantly aquatic?
1 January, 1975
DDT is a useful model compound for studying the circulation of a toxic pollutant in the global environment1,2. An understanding of this process could in future be related to potentially…1 January, 1975
Waste products from man's activities, released into the environment, distribute themselves between the atmosphere, the land, the sea and, through these, to the biota. There is a constant interchange of…Read more on The study of global atmospheric pollution in Antarctica
1 January, 1975
The South Shetland Islands (from King George Island to Livingston Island) are situated on a small crustal plate bounded by incipient back-arc spreading along the axis of Bransfield Strait to…Read more on Evidence for pre-Jurassic subduction in western Antarctica
1 January, 1975
The optimization of the method whereby the key whistler parameters, nose-frequency (fn) and minimum group delay (tn) are determined is important for the efficient reduction of whistler recordings to yield…Read more on Methods of determining whistler nose-frequency and minimum group delay
1 January, 1975
The results are reported of growth experiments carried out over three seasons on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. The values obtained for relative growth rate, net assimilation rate and…Read more on A growth analysis technique for assessing habitat severity in tundra regions
1 January, 1975
Holes drilled into thin areas of the Brunt Ice Shelf encounter a layer of liquid brine less than 1 m thick approximately at sea-level. Assuming the brine to be moving…1 January, 1975
The fauna reported here was obtained from the Legoupil Formation in the north-western part of the Antarctic Peninsula (Fig. 1), which has been assigned a Cretaceous age on the basis…Read more on First marine Triassic fauna from the Antarctic Peninsula
1 January, 1974
Green aboveground shoots of the moss Polytrichum alpinum Hedw., growing on the tundra at Point Barrow, Alaska, were exposed to 14CO2 in the field. Autoradiography and subsequent counting revealed preferential…1 January, 1974
1. Four men, of ages varying from 23 to 28 years, living at Halley Bay, Antarctica (75° 31′ S, 26° 39′ W), were exposed to a mean air temperature of…Read more on Thyroid hormone responses to prolonged cold exposure in man
1 January, 1974
A series of meatal swabs, taken from 17 men over a period of 17 months during their tour at an Antarctic base was examined for mycoplasmas. The number of organisms…Read more on The persistence of mycoplasmas in the urogenital tract of men in the Antarctic
1 January, 1974
Twelve sheathbills, Chionis alba, 12 South Georgian diving petrels, Pelecanoides georgicus, and 5 common diving petrels, P. urinatrix, collected at Bird Island, South Georgia, were examined for helminth parasites. These…1 January, 1973
An idealized model of the vertical distribution of the electron concentration in the E- and F-regions of the ionosphere is developed in which the model parameters are given by simple…Read more on A simple model of the vertical distribution of electron concentration in the ionosphere