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Biology of living brachiopods
Read more of: Biology of living brachiopodsThis chapter describes the biology of living brachiopods. The Brachiopoda are significant components of the early Cambrian marine Faunas and are therefore one of the few phyla to be represented […]
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Melting of ice shelves and the mass balance of Antarctica
Read more of: Melting of ice shelves and the mass balance of AntarcticaWe calculate the present ice budget for Antarctica from measurements of accumulation minus iceberg calving, run-off and in situ melting beneath the floating ice shelves. The resulting negative mass balance […]
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene glacial history of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula
Read more of: Late Pleistocene and Holocene glacial history of James Ross Island, Antarctic PeninsulaStudies of Quaternary glacial stratigraphy and morphology around the Antarctic Peninsula have shown that James Ross Island in the western Weddell Sea probably has the best occurrences of stratigraphic sections […]
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Cephalopods eaten by wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulansL.) breeding at six circumpolar localities
Read more of: Cephalopods eaten by wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulansL.) breeding at six circumpolar localitiesReferences Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions PDF Abstract The beaks of 9,994 cephalopods of 61 species, obtained mainly from chick regurgitations of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans L.) […]
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Distributions and predator-prey interactions of macaroni penguins, Antarctic fur seals, and Antarctic krill near Bird Island, South Georgia
Read more of: Distributions and predator-prey interactions of macaroni penguins, Antarctic fur seals, and Antarctic krill near Bird Island, South GeorgiaWe studied the distributions, abundances and interactions of macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus, Antarchc fur seals Arctocephalus gazella, and their zooplankton prey, m particular Antarctic krill Euphausia superba, near Bird Island, […]
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Changes in seabird species abundance near South Georgia during a period of rapid change in sea surface temperature
Read more of: Changes in seabird species abundance near South Georgia during a period of rapid change in sea surface temperatureDuring a three month research cruise near the island of South Georgia, sea surface temperature (SST) increased from c. 2°C to over 4°C. Satellite derived SST show that this corresponded […]
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An additional record of a placental mammal (Order Astrapotheria) from the Eocene of West Antarctica
Read more of: An additional record of a placental mammal (Order Astrapotheria) from the Eocene of West AntarcticaRecently, fossil land mammals have been recorded in the James Ross Island area, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, from the marine middle-late Eocene strata of Seymour Island. These include two […]