Introduction. Antarctic ecology from genes to ecosystems: The impact of climate change and the importance of scale

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1477, 2007, Pages 5-9

  Clarke, Andrew ^a   Johnston, Nadine M ^a   Murphy, Eugene J ^a   Rogers, Alex D ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extinction; Extremophile; Glaciation; Oceanography; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION RISK; EXTREMOPHILE; GENE; GLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GONDWANA; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VICARIANCE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ADAPTATION; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

EID: 34250010404     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1943     Document Type: Review

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