Antimicrobial resistance in Antarctica: is it still a pristine environment?

K Hwengwere, H Paramel Nair, KA Hughes, LS Peck… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Although the rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), particularly in relation to
clinical settings, is causing concern in many regions of the globe, remote, extreme …

Recent trends on microplastics abundance and risk assessment in coastal Antarctica: Regional meta-analysis

K Gurumoorthi, AJ Luis - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigated sources, abundance and risk of microplastics (MPs) in water, sediments
and biota around Antarctica. The concentration of MPs in Southern Ocean (SO) ranged from …

Cross-chapter paper 6: Polar regions

AJ Constable, S Harper, J Dawson, K Holsman… - IPCC AR WGII, 2022 - epic.awi.de
The polar regions, notably the Arctic and maritime Antarctic, are experiencing impacts from
climate change at magnitudes and rates that are among the highest in the world, and will …

Status, change, and futures of zooplankton in the Southern Ocean

NM Johnston, EJ Murphy, A Atkinson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the Southern Ocean, several zooplankton taxonomic groups, euphausiids, copepods,
salps and pteropods, are notable because of their biomass and abundance and their roles …

Pelagic ciliate (Ciliophora) communities in the Southern Ocean: bioindicator to water mass, habitat suitability classification and potential response to global warming

C Wang, X Wang, Y Wei, G Guo, H Li, A Wan… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the pelagic ciliate (microzooplankton) play important role in carbon flux of marine
ecosystems, their ecological function, habitat suitability classification and response to global …

Massive circumpolar biomass of Southern Ocean zooplankton: Implications for food web structure, carbon export, and marine spatial planning

G Yang, A Atkinson, EA Pakhomov… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With rapid, sector‐specific climatic changes impacting the Southern Ocean, we need
circumpolar‐scale biomass data of its plankton taxa to improve food web models, blue …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management

CY Kot, SE DeLand, AL Harrison, A Alberini… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the areas used by migratory marine animals and their movements is critical
in supporting management decisions that target their conservation. This is especially …

Protect global values of the Southern Ocean ecosystem

CM Brooks, DG Ainley, J Jacquet, SL Chown… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Southern Ocean, which comprises∼ 10% of the global ocean, is critically important to
the homeostasis of the Earth system, exhibits distinctive marine biodiversity, and has …

Climate change projected to impact structural hillslope connectivity at the global scale

AT Michalek, G Villarini, A Husic - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Structural connectivity describes how landscapes facilitate the transfer of matter and plays a
critical role in the flux of water, solutes, and sediment across the Earth's surface. The …

Composition and distribution of plankton communities in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

VV Kasyan, DG Bitiutskii, AV Mishin, OA Zuev… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding region have
undergone a significant transformation due to global climate change affecting the structure …