Divergent trophic responses of sympatric penguin species to historic anthropogenic exploitation and recent climate change

KW McMahon, CI Michelson, T Hart… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The Southern Ocean is in an era of significant change. Historic overharvesting of marine
mammals and recent climatic warming have cascading impacts on resource availability and …

An inventory of supraglacial lakes and channels across the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

D Corr, A Leeson, M McMillan… - Earth System Science …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Quantifying the extent and distribution of supraglacial hydrology, ie lakes and streams, is
important for understanding the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet and its consequent …

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) levels in air and surface sea waters along the Antarctic Peninsula

C Galbán-Malagón, VA Gómez-Aburto… - Marine pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are widespread worldwide, even reaching polar
regions. Among POPs, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and their metabolites have …

[HTML][HTML] The 2020 Larsen C Ice Shelf surface melt is a 40-year record high

S Bevan, A Luckman, H Hendon, G Wang - The Cryosphere, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Along with record-breaking summer air temperatures at an Antarctic Peninsula
meteorological station in February 2020, the Larsen C ice shelf experienced an …

Heterogeneity of microbial communities in soils from the Antarctic Peninsula region

P Almela, A Justel, A Quesada - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ice-free areas represent less than 1% of the Antarctic surface. However, climate change
models predict a significant increase in temperatures in the coming decades, triggering a …

DNA metabarcoding data reveals harmful algal-bloom species undescribed previously at the northern Antarctic Peninsula region

C Liu, X Zhang, X Wang - Polar Biology, 2022 - Springer
Introduction of non-indigenous microbial organisms is forecast to pose a significant threat to
the northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) marine environments, but reliable data are still …

Strong warming over the Antarctic Peninsula during combined atmospheric river and foehn events: contribution of shortwave radiation and turbulence

X Zou, PM Rowe, I Gorodetskaya… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctica Peninsula (AP) has experienced more frequent and intense surface
melting recently, jeopardizing the stability of ice shelves and ultimately leading to ice loss …

Meta‐analysis of Antarctic phylogeography reveals strong sampling bias and critical knowledge gaps

XP Liu, GA Duffy, WS Pearman, LR Pertierra… - Ecography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Much of Antarctica's highly endemic terrestrial biodiversity is found in small ice‐free patches.
Substantial genetic differentiation has been detected among populations across spatial …

Environmental harshness mediates the relationship between aboveground and belowground communities in Antarctica

BA Ball, P Convey, KL Feeser, UN Nielsen… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Linkages between aboveground and belowground communities are a key but globally
under-researched component of responses to environmental change. Given the logistical …

Projecting environmental and krill fishery impacts on the Antarctic Peninsula food web in 2100

G Testa, S Neira, R Giesecke, A Piñones - Progress in Oceanography, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Antarctic Peninsula ecosystem is extremely sensitive to climatic variability and
other anthropogenic perturbances ascribed to biomass extraction by fisheries. An Ecopath …