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 …

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 …

We present an update of the 'key points' from the Antarctic Climate Change and the
Environment (ACCE) report that was published by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic …

To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of
interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …

Until recently the Antarctic continent and Peninsula have been little impacted by non-native
species, compared to other regions of the Earth. However, reports of species introductions …

Antarctica represents a unique environment, both due to the extreme meteorological and
geological conditions that govern it and the relative isolation from human influences that …

Terrestrial vegetation communities across Antarctica are characteristically sparse,
presenting a challenge for mapping their occurrence using remote sensing at the continent …

Understanding the enormous diversity of microbes, their multiple roles in the functioning of
ecosystems, and their response to large-scale environmental and climatic changes, are at …

Protection of Antarctica's biodiversity and ecosystem values is enshrined in the Protocol on
Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, which provides for the designation of …

Antarctic soils are known to be oligotrophic and of having low buffering capacities. It is
expected that this is particularly the case for inland high-altitude regions. We hypothesized …