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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... suggest that only 75 % of the accumulation can be balanced by calving and 15 % by bottom - melting , and many workers have suggested that the ice sheet must be growing . If it is , this could be because it is building up for a surge as ...
... suggest that only 75 % of the accumulation can be balanced by calving and 15 % by bottom - melting , and many workers have suggested that the ice sheet must be growing . If it is , this could be because it is building up for a surge as ...
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... suggesting a pre - weaning mortality of the order of 5 % . Some were stillborn , and others undersized , but most had ... suggested that when the ice broke up during the breed- ing period pup mortality might reach 30-50 % . No counts of ...
... suggesting a pre - weaning mortality of the order of 5 % . Some were stillborn , and others undersized , but most had ... suggested that when the ice broke up during the breed- ing period pup mortality might reach 30-50 % . No counts of ...
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... suggested that its effect was augmented by the other factors . But thermoregulation of polar pinnipedes presents two different situations : that in air where it is suggested that vasodilation and high skin temperatures are normal and in ...
... suggested that its effect was augmented by the other factors . But thermoregulation of polar pinnipedes presents two different situations : that in air where it is suggested that vasodilation and high skin temperatures are normal and in ...
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