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  • ...nsula Climate Variability: Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives, Antarctic Research Series, 79. American Geophysical Union.</ref>). ...bsequently, numerous studies have addressed the questions of how large the ice sheets were during the LGM, and when they began their retreat.
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  • ...the Global Climate System from 2005 to 2008. He is the co-author of &lsquo;Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology&rsquo; and &lsquo;Polar Lows: Mesoscale Weather ...n quoted commenting on glaciological impacts of the climate on the world's ice sheets and glaciers.
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  • ...summer mean krill density correleated positively with the duration of sea ice the previous winter (Atkinson et al., 2004<ref name="Atkinson et al, 2004"> ...res probably reflect a distribution and dispersal effect across the Scotia Sea and the degree of influence of cooler polar waters in northern regions arou
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  • ...ignificant problem for researchers in many areas of Antarctic science. The Antarctic continent is large and there are logistical difficulties in getting to many ...launch in coming years, many of which will directly benefit studies of the Antarctic. While not exhaustive because of changing plans, some of these are briefly
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  • ...ng|thumb|'''3.9''' Main climatic events of the last 1 Million years in the Antarctic context]] ...sy, J.C., McManus, J.F., Lambeck, K., Balbon, E. and Labracherie, M. 2002. Sea level and deep water temperature changes derived from bentic foraminifera i
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  • ...the lakes, likely related to increased nutrient inputs and a reduction in ice and snow cover at c. 10.2 ka BP, marking the start of relatively warm condi ...Evolution and Processes. Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Siena, 1995. Terra Antarctica, Sienna, 809-820.</ref>).
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  • ...nsula.png|thumb|'''3.26''' Selected Holocene environmental changes &ndash; Antarctic Peninsula]] ...story of the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum, Arctic, ''Antarctic and Alpine Research'', '''35''', 175-186.</ref>).
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  • ....png|thumb|'''3.28''' Selected Holocene environmental changes &ndash; Ross Sea]] ...e Wright, a high-level Antarctic lake during the LGM and early Holocene, ''Antarctic Science'', '''13''', 53-60.</ref>). The large amount of water in these lake
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  • ...een sufficient variability during the last ~9 ka to cause major changes to Antarctic ecosystems. This natural variability must be taken into account in understa ...n, E.D. 1999. Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science 286:280-283.</ref>). Figure modified from Mayewski et al. (2
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  • ...rt of the topic [[Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic]]'' ...lication of a continuum-mechanical model for the flow of anisotropic polar ice to the EDML core, Antarctica.
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  • ...ns in the Ocean-Ocean Processes and Marine Population Dynamics. California Sea Grant College System, La Jolla.</ref>; Finney et al., 2002<ref name="Finney ...thermal specialization paradigm: compensation for elevated temperatures in Antarctic fish, ''Biol. Lett.'', '''2''', 151-154.</ref>).
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  • ...per, 2007">Smith, W. and Asper, V.A. 2007. New Ways to Collect Data in the Antarctic, EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 88, no. 48, 525.</ref>). ...er to examine its properties or by catching and examining animals from the sea has been carried out to some extent since humans first took to the oceans.
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  • ...ill increase by several degrees and there will be about one third less sea ice.</li> ...h&rsquo;s biogeochemical cycles. During these times there was little or no ice on land.</li>
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  • ...CE Consortium. 2009. Review: Antarctic climate change and the environment, Antarctic Science, 1-23.</ref>). ...ch results emerged. Short information papers describing recent advances in Antarctic climate change and its possible impacts on biota were presented to the ATCM
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' ...26.</ref>). However, it should be noted that the Antarctic contribution to sea level now is small compared to what it was following the LGM Transition and
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  • ...bal processes (Bargagli, 2005<ref name="Bargagli, 2005">Bargagli, R. 2005. Antarctic Ecosystems: Environmental Contamination, Climate Change, and Human Impact. ...ance of the &ldquo;ozone hole&rdquo; and the rapid regional warming of the Antarctic Peninsula indicate that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are inextricably
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  • ...: Lower Tertiary La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Research Series, 55, 152 pp.</ref>). Thereafter shallow-marine benthic moll .../ref>). Although there is clear geophysical evidence for extensions of the ice-sheet having reduced considerably the area of continental shelf at least on
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Antarctic climate and environment change in the instrumental period]]'' #[[Sea ice ecosystems in the instrumental period]]
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  • ...Convey, P., Allen, C.S. and Clarke, A.C. 2006. Incursion and excursion of Antarctic biota: past, present and future, ''Global Ecol Biogeogr'', '''15''', 121-14 ...volutionary divergence between geographically separated populations of the Antarctic octopus ''Pareledone turqueti''. Marine Biology, 129 (1), 97-102.</ref>) co
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  • :''This page is part of the topic [[Biota of the Antarctic]]'' ...ted habitats because of their unusual faunas, which make the waters of the Antarctic shelf comparable to classic evolutionary sites such as the Galapagos.
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