Emerging biological archives can reveal ecological and climatic change in Antarctica

JM Strugnell, HV McGregor, NG Wilson… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is causing observable changes in Antarctica and the
Southern Ocean including increased air and ocean temperatures, glacial melt leading to sea …

Capitalizing on the wealth of chemical data in the accretionary structures of aquatic taxa: Opportunities from across the tree of life

ZA Doubleday, L Hosking, J Willoughby… - Limnology and …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic organisms are natural data loggers and record chemical variations within hardened
accretionary structures like shells and teeth. Chemical sclerochronology is the study of these …

Cryogenic brines as diagenetic fluids: Reconstructing the diagenetic history of the Victoria Land Basin using clumped isotopes

PT Staudigel, S Murray, DP Dunham, TD Frank… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The isotopic analyses (δ 13 C, δ 18 O, and Δ 47) of carbonate phases recovered from a core
in McMurdo Sound by ANtarctic geologic DRILLing (ANDRILL-2A) indicate that the majority …

[HTML][HTML] Barnacle-rich facies as a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

G Coletti, G Bosio, A Collareta, OM Bialik… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Palaeoenvironmental data are fundamental in determining the manifold impacts of climate
change. This paper argues that sessile barnacles are an excellent palaeoenvironmental …

Stable oxygen isotopes reveal habitat use by marine mammals in the Río de la Plata estuary and adjoining Atlantic Ocean

M Drago, M Valdivia, D Bragg, EM González… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Detailed knowledge on habitat use by marine mammals is critical for understanding their
ecological role and for adequate management. Here, we assess the habitat use patterns of …

Uranium in aragonitic marine bivalve shells

DP Gillikin, F Dehairs - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Uranium concentrations in foraminiferal and coral skeletons track oceanic [CO32−] and can
be useful as a proxy of ocean acidification, but this pH proxy is yet to be investigated in …

Multidimensional stable isotope analysis illuminates resource partitioning in a sub‐Antarctic island bird community

M Connan, BJ Dilley, TO Whitehead, D Davies… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A central theme in community ecology is understanding how similar species co‐exist and
how their interactions may evolve in the context of climate change. Most studies of resource …

Bioerosion ichnodiversity in barnacles from the Ross Sea, Antarctica

N Meyer, M Wisshak, A Freiwald - Polar Biology, 2021 - Springer
Breakdown of skeletal and lithic hard substrates by organisms, a process referred to as
bioerosion, is part of the global carbon cycle and receives increased attention, but little is …

[HTML][HTML] The geochemistry of modern calcareous barnacle shells and applications for palaeoenvironmental studies

CV Ullmann, AS Gale, J Huggett, D Wray, R Frei… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Thoracican barnacles of the Superorder Thoracicalcarea Gale, 2016 are sessile calcifiers
which are ubiquitous in the intertidal zone and present from very shallow to the deepest …

On the need to consider multiphasic sensitivity of marine organisms to climate change: a case study of the Antarctic acorn barnacle

R Gallego, TE Dennis, Z Basher, S Lavery… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species distribution models (SDM s) are routinely employed to evaluate shifts in the
geographic distributions of organisms in response to changing climatic conditions. Many …