Antarctic Ecosystems

Underwater Optics in Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Coastal Ecosystems

Understanding underwater optics in natural waters is essential in evaluating aquatic primary production and risk of UV exposure in aquatic habitats. Changing environmental conditions related with global climate change, which imply potential contrasting changes in underwater light climate further emphasize the need to gain insights into patterns related with underwater optics for more accurate f...

Hexachlorocyclohexanes in Arctic and Antarctic Marine Ecosystems

Marine pelagic ecosystems: the west Antarctic Peninsula.

The marine ecosystem of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) extends from the Bellingshausen Sea to the northern tip of the peninsula and from the mostly glaciated coast across the continental shelf to the shelf break in the west. The glacially sculpted coastline along the peninsula is highly convoluted and characterized by deep embayments that are often interconnected by channels that facilitate...

Chemical Interactions in Antarctic Marine Benthic Ecosystems

Simulating Antarctic Ecosystems: Weapons of Mass Construction

This Fisheries Centre Research Report presents eleven papers that describe whole-ecosystem models of four Antarctic areas: the Antarctic Peninsula, Kerguelen Islands, Falkland Islands, and the Southern Plateau region, New Zealand. A mass-balance model, sources of data, and derivations of model parameters are detailed for each region. Dynamic simulation models for the Antarctic Peninsula and the...