Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are facing complex environmental change.
Their native biota has adapted to the region's extreme conditions over many millions of …

Physiological studies can help predict effects of climate change through determining which
species currently live closest to their upper thermal tolerance limits, which physiological …

The cellular stress response (CSR) is critical for enabling organisms to cope with thermal
damage to proteins, nucleic acids, and membranes. It is a graded response whose …

This paper presents the output of our fifth annual horizon-scanning exercise, which aims to
identify topics that increasingly may affect conservation of biological diversity, but have yet to …

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 …

Global change includes alterations in ocean temperature, oxygen availability, salinity, and
pH, abiotic variables with strong and interacting influences on the physiology of all taxa …

Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares
many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading …

The preferential synthesis of heat shock proteins (Hsps) in response to thermal stress [the
heat shock response (HSR)] has been shown to vary in species that occupy different thermal …

Although the sequence of a protein largely determines its function, proteins can adopt
different folding states in response to changes in the environment, some of which may be …

Abstract The west Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region has undergone significant changes in
temperature and seasonal ice dynamics since the mid-twentieth century, with strong impacts …