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 …

Ecological changes in the phenology and distribution of plants and animals are occurring in
all well-studied marine, freshwater, and terrestrial groups. These observed changes are …

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 …

Biodiversity and carbon (C) cycling have been the focus of much research in recent
decades, partly because both change as a result of anthropogenic activities that are likely to …

Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that mean
global warming was 0.6±0.2° C during the 20th century and cited anthropogenic increases …

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 …

ABSTRACT The Reference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research (READER) project
data set of monthly mean Antarctic nearsurface temperature, mean sea-level pressure …

The evidence for the Little Ice Age, the most important fluctuation in global climate in
historical times, is most dramatically represented by the advance of mountain glaciers in the …

The arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys constitute some of the oldest, coldest, driest and
most oligotrophic soils on Earth. Early studies suggested that the Dry Valley soils contained …

Assessments of Antarctic temperature change have emphasized the contrast between
strong warming of the Antarctic Peninsula and slight cooling of the Antarctic continental …