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Antarctic Ecosystems

Ecological Change and Conservation

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. K. R. Kerry

    1. Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories, Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia

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  2. G. Hempel

    1. Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Long- and Medium-Term Changes in Antarctic Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Significance of Evidence for Changes in the Antarctic Marine Environment Over the Last 5 Million Years

      • P. G. Quilty
      Pages 3-8

    3. Temperature and Evolution: Southern Ocean Cooling and the Antarctic Marine Fauna

      • A. Clarke
      Pages 9-22

    4. Environmental and Biological Variability in the McMurdo Ice Shelf Ecosystem

      • C. Howard-Williams, R. D. Pridmore, P. A. Broady, W. F. Vincent
      Pages 23-31

    5. Signy Island as a Paradigm of Biological and Environmental Change in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems

      • R. I. Lewis Smith
      Pages 32-50

    6. Colonization of Terrestrial Habitats — Organisms, Opportunities and Occurrence

      • D. W. H. Walton
      Pages 51-60

    7. Changes in Vegetation on Heard Island 1947–1987

      • J. J. Scott
      Pages 61-76

    8. Evidence for Change in the Chemistry of Maritime Antarctic Heywood Lake

      • J. C. Ellis-Evans
      Pages 77-82

    9. Eutrophication and Vegetation Development in Maritime Antarctic Lakes

      • I. Hawes
      Pages 83-90

    10. A Preliminary Study of Benthic Diatoms in Contrasting Lake Environments

      • D. R. Oppenheim
      Pages 91-99

  3. Seasonal Changes in Sea Ice Zones and off South Georgia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Seasonal and Regional Variation in the Pelagial and its Relationship to the Life History Cycle of Krill

      • V. Smetacek, R. Scharek, E.-M. Nöthig
      Pages 103-114

    3. Primary Production and Consumption in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

      • G. A. Knox
      Pages 115-128

    4. Seasonal and Geographic Variations in Sea Ice Community Structure of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

      • M. Spindler, G. S. Dieckmann, M. A. Lange
      Pages 129-135

    5. Seasonal Variation in Ice Algal Assemblages in the Fast Ice Near Syowa Station in 1983/84

      • K. Watanabe, H. Satoh, T. Hoshiai
      Pages 136-142

    6. Seasonal Variation of Particulate Organic Matter Under the Antarctic Fast Ice and its Importance to Benthic Life

      • O. Matsuda, S. Ishikawa, K. Kawaguchi
      Pages 143-148

    7. Seasonal Patterns of Ichthyoplankton Distribution and Abundance in the Southern Weddell Sea

      • G. Hubold
      Pages 149-158

    8. The Distribution of Zooplankton in Relation to the South Georgia Shelf in Summer and Winter

      • A. Atkinson, J. M. Peck
      Pages 159-165

  4. Ecological and Population Changes in Sea Birds and Mammals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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About this book

Antarctic Ecosystems comprises 55 papers presented at the Fifth Symposium on Antarctic Biology held under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in Hobart, Australia, 29 August - 3 September, 1988. Both short- and long-term changes in ecosystems and community structures caused by natural and human factors were discussed to help understand the ecological processes taking place in a changing environment. The variability of ecological factors must be known for the development of realistic monitoring strategies and sound conservation practices.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories, Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia

    K. R. Kerry

  • Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

    G. Hempel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Antarctic Ecosystems

  • Book Subtitle: Ecological Change and Conservation

  • Editors: K. R. Kerry, G. Hempel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84074-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-84076-0Published: 07 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-84074-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 427

  • Topics: Ecology, Zoology

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