Antarctic Ecology, Volume 1Based on a symposium organized by the Working Group on Biology of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Cambridge, 1968. |
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... observed in the area where the waters of the West Wind drift mixed with those of the Weddell Current . The area is characterized by a high silicon content , by the specific temperature stratifica- tion of the waters and so on ...
... observed in the area where the waters of the West Wind drift mixed with those of the Weddell Current . The area is characterized by a high silicon content , by the specific temperature stratifica- tion of the waters and so on ...
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... observed to continue for as long as 190 days . Fidelity is high during the thirty or so days preceding the ecdysis of the female to maturity , but males carry females promiscuously before then . The stimuli associated with this ...
... observed to continue for as long as 190 days . Fidelity is high during the thirty or so days preceding the ecdysis of the female to maturity , but males carry females promiscuously before then . The stimuli associated with this ...
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... observed in the upper 30 m of the water column . The ice platelets have been observed as masses of anchor ice frozen to the ocean floor and as a matrix of platelets frozen together in an irregular fashion beneath the annual solid sea ...
... observed in the upper 30 m of the water column . The ice platelets have been observed as masses of anchor ice frozen to the ocean floor and as a matrix of platelets frozen together in an irregular fashion beneath the annual solid sea ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 4 |
ANTARCTIC GLACIOLOGY GLACIAL HISTORY AND ECOLOGY | 15 |
THE MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS | 21 |
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14C uptake abundance Adélie adult algae amphipods Andriashev animals Antarctic Convergence Antarctic fishes Antarctic Peninsula Antarctic Seas Antarctic waters Arctic Atlantic behaviour benthic Biology biomass birds bottom breeding catch chicks chloride chlorophyll climate colonies concentrations crabeater seals cruise density depths diatoms distribution diving East Antarctica ecology ecosystem eggs estimates fast ice fauna feeding females flora foraminifera freezing freezing-point g/m² glaciation glaciers groups Holdgate increase indicate krill lake layer Mackintosh males marine mature maximum McMurdo Sound mg/m³ moult nest northern Notothenia observed Øritsland Pacific sector pack ice pelagic penguins period phytoplankton plankton polar population predation present primary production protein pups region Research Ross Sea samples sea ice season sediments serum shelf Signy Island skuas South Georgia South Orkney Islands Southern Ocean species standing crop stations stocks Subantarctic summer surface waters temperature tion Trematomus Weddell seal whales winter Zealand zone zooplankton