Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and
familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of the strongest …

Antarctica and its surrounding islands lie at one extreme of global variation in diversity.
Typically, these regions are characterized as being species poor and having simple food …

Antarctic biodiversity is much more extensive, ecologically diverse and biogeographically
structured than previously thought. Understanding of how this diversity is distributed in …

Knowledge of Antarctic biotas and environments has increased dramatically in recent years.
There has also been a rapid increase in the use of novel technologies. Despite this, some …

Antarctic biodiversity faces an unknown future with a changing climate. Most terrestrial biota
is restricted to limited patches of ice‐free land in a sea of ice, where they are adapted to the …

Disturbance has always shaped the evolution and ecology of organisms and nowhere is this
more apparent that on the iceberg gouged continental shelves of the Antarctic Peninsula …

Extreme and remote environments provide useful settings to test ideas about the ecological
and evolutionary drivers of biological diversity. In the sub‐A ntarctic, isolation by geographic …

Although its major components have been known almost since the earliest exploring
expeditions, even today the terrestrial biota of Antarctica is surprisingly poorly described in …

Recent analyses of Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity data, in combination with molecular
biological studies, have created a new paradigm that long-term persistence and regional …

The question is posed:“what limits the presence, distribution, and abundance of life in
Antarctica?” Traditionally, continental isolation has been considered to restrict the arrival of …