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The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity
Chown, S.L.; Clarke, A.; Fraser, C.; Cary, S.C.; Moon, K.L.; McGeoch, M.A. (2015). The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity. Nature (Lond.) 522(7557): 431–438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14505
In: Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 0028-0836; e-ISSN 1476-4687, more
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    Marine/Coastal

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  • Chown, S.L.
  • Clarke, A., more
  • Fraser, C.
  • Cary, S.C.
  • Moon, K.L.
  • McGeoch, M.A.

Abstract
    Antarctic biodiversity is much more extensive, ecologically diverse and biogeographically structured than previously thought. Understanding of how this diversity is distributed in marine and terrestrial systems, the mechanisms underlying its spatial variation, and the significance of the microbiota is growing rapidly. Broadly recognizable drivers of diversity variation include energy availability and historical refugia. The impacts of local human activities and global environmental change nonetheless pose challenges to the current and future understanding of Antarctic biodiversity. Life in the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean is surprisingly rich, and as much at risk from environmental change as it is elsewhere.

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