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Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean (Hardcover)
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Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean (Hardcover)
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The Southern Ocean surrounding the Antarctic continent is vast, in
particular, its history, its isolation, and climate, making it a
unique "laboratory case" for experimental evolution, adaptation and
ecology. Its evolutionary history of adaptation provide a wealth of
information on the functioning of the biosphere and its potential.
The Southern Ocean is the result of a history of nearly 40 million
years marked by the opening of the Straits south of Australia and
South America and intense cooling. The violence of its weather, its
very low temperatures, the formation of huge ice-covered areas, as
its isolation makes the Southern Ocean a world apart. This book
discusses the consequences for the evolution, ecology and
biodiversity of the region, including endemism, slowed metabolism,
longevity, gigantism, and its larval stages; features which make
this vast ocean a "natural laboratory" for exploring the ecological
adaptive processes, scalable to work in extreme environmental
conditions. Today, biodiversity of the Southern Ocean is facing
global change, particularly in regional warming and acidification
of water bodies. Unable to migrate further south, how will she
cope, if any, to visitors from the North?
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