Author: Australia. Antarctic Division
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Published: 1984
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: L. Beyer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 364256318X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Research in Antarctica in the past two decades has fundamentally changed our perceptions of the southern continent. This volume describes typical terrestrial environments of the maritime and continental Antarctic. Life and chemical processes are restricted to small ranges of ambient temperature, availability of water and nutrients. This is reflected not only in life processes, but also in those of weathering and pedogenesis. The volume focuses on interactions between plants, animals and soils. It includes aspects of climate change, soil development and biology, as well as above- and below-ground results of interdisciplinary research projects combining data from botany, zoology, microbiology, pedology, and soil ecology.
Author: Dietrich Sahrhage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 3642737242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the intensification of research activities in the Southern Ocean in recent years, both at national levels and through international cooperation in such projects as BIOMASS with its FIBEX and SIBEX phases, the need was felt increasingly for closer collaboration between biologists, meteorologists, and oceanographers in the study of the interaction between the atmospheric forces, the water masses, and the living resources. Better knowledge in this regard is not only of scientific interest but also of practical importance, especially for the management of the resources and the protection of the Antarctic marine ecosystem. As a follow-up on a recommendation by the IOC Program Group for the Southern Oceans made in March 1983, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission organized a meeting of experts on oceanography related to the dynamics of the Antarctic ecosystems. During this meeting, held in Kiel, Federal Republic of Ger many, in May 1984, biologists and oceanographers involved in BIOMASS activities met with the oceanographers of SCOR Working Group 74 to discuss ways and means for additional physical and chemical observations in the oceanographic research within BIOMASS. It was the time when large fluctuations in the distribution of krill with subsequent detrimental effects on predator species dependent on krill had just been observed, and the question arose whether this was possibly the result of changes in the Antarctic water circulation.
Author: Patricia Selkirk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521266338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating and readable account will appeal to all those interested in the Antarctic region in general.