[HTML][HTML] Future risk for Southern Ocean ecosystem services under climate change

RD Cavanagh, J Melbourne-Thomas… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Southern Ocean supports ecosystem services that are important on a global scale.
Climate change and human activities (tourism, fishing, and research) will affect both the …

A surplus no more? Variation in krill availability impacts reproductive rates of Antarctic baleen whales

LJ Pallin, NM Kellar, D Steel… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The krill surplus hypothesis of unlimited prey resources available for Antarctic predators due
to commercial whaling in the 20th century has remained largely untested since the 1970s …

Seasonal time bombs: dominant temperate viruses affect Southern Ocean microbial dynamics

JR Brum, BL Hurwitz, O Schofield… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rapid warming in the highly productive western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region of the
Southern Ocean has affected multiple trophic levels, yet viral influences on microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Winter and spring controls on the summer food web of the coastal West Antarctic Peninsula

GK Saba, WR Fraser, VS Saba, RA Iannuzzi… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanisms by which climate variability affects multiple trophic levels in
food webs is essential for determining ecosystem responses to climate change. Here we use …

Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the western Antarctic Peninsula

M Montes-Hugo, SC Doney, HW Ducklow, W Fraser… - Science, 2009 - science.org
The climate of the western shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is undergoing a transition
from a cold-dry polar-type climate to a warm-humid sub-Antarctic–type climate. Using three …

Variability in krill biomass links harvesting and climate warming to penguin population changes in Antarctica

WZ Trivelpiece, JT Hinke, AK Miller… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) and adjacent Scotia Sea support abundant wildlife
populations, many of which were nearly extirpated by humans. This region is also among …

[HTML][HTML] Marine ecosystem assessment for the Southern Ocean: birds and marine mammals in a changing climate

S Bestley, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Future recovery of baleen whales is imperiled by climate change

VJD Tulloch, ÉE Plagányi, C Brown… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Historical harvesting pushed many whale species to the brink of extinction. Although most
Southern Hemisphere populations are slowly recovering, the influence of future climate …

[图书][B] Climate change denial: Heads in the sand

H Washington - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something
interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on …

Ocean acidification at high latitudes: the bellwether

VJ Fabry, JB McClintock, JT Mathis, JM Grebmeier - Oceanography, 2009 - JSTOR
Owing to anthropogenic-induced acidification, surface waters of the high latitudes are
projected to become persistently undersaturated with respect to aragonite as early as mid …