Chapter 3 Antarctic Marine Biodiversity

Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading effect of ice in its many forms and extreme seasonality of light and phytobiont productivity. Antarctica is, however, the...

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Main Author: Peck, Lloyd S.
Format: Livro
Language:Inglês
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
Subjects:
oceanography
marine biology
environment
climate change
climate change impacts
Southern Ocean
high Arctic
ice
seasonality
phytobiont productivity
Antarctica
Antarctic fauna
marine invertebrate species
endemic species
low temperature adaptations
seasonality adaptions
channichthyid icefish
universal heat shock response
gametogenic cycles
vitellogenesis
microtubule assembly
locomotion
metabolic rate
whole-animal growth
embryonic development
limb regeneration
echinoderms
Southern Ocean fauna
ecophysiological adaptations
coldblooded marine species
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Online Access:https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33009
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