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Nicolò Riboni, Erika Ribezzi, Lucia Nasi, Monica Mattarozzi, Maurizio Piergiovanni, Matteo Masino, Federica Bianchi and Maria Careri
The impact of the anthropic activities in Antarctica is a concerning issue. According to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, attention has to be paid to the next-generation contaminants deriving from both long-range atmospheric transport and ...
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Geng Liu, Zhongshan Shen, Xibin Han, Haifeng Wang, Weiwei Chen, Yi Zhang, Pengyun Ma, Yibing Li, Yun Cai, Pengfei Xue, Huafeng Qin and Chunxia Zhang
The stability of contemporary ice shelves is under threat due to global warming, and the geological records in the Ross Sea offer such an opportunity to test the linkage between them. However, the absence of calcareous microfossils in the sediments of th...
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Camino Eck, Xiaoyu Kröner and Dorte Janussen
This study investigates taxonomic characteristics of carnivorous sponges from the Southern Ocean. The specimens were collected in 2010 from deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the East Scotia Ridge during the RRS James Cook Cruise JC42. All the investigated s...
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Daniela Coppola, Chiara Lauritano, Gianluca Zazo, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Angelo Fontana, Adrianna Ianora, Maria Costantini, Cinzia Verde and Daniela Giordano
Antarctica is an untapped reservoir of bacterial communities, which are able to adapt to a huge variety of strategies to cope with extreme conditions and, therefore, are capable of producing potentially valuable compounds for biotechnological application...
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Hiroshi Yasuda, Naoyuki Kurita and Kazuaki Yajima
A portable neutron-monitoring system can be effectively applied to verification of the models used for estimating cosmic radiation intensities over a wide range of altitudes in a harsh environment such as in Antarctica.
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Leopold I. Lobkovsky, Alexey A. Baranov, Igor A. Garagash, Mukamay M. Ramazanov, Irina S. Vladimirova, Yurii V. Gabsatarov, Dmitry A. Alekseev and Igor P. Semiletov
A correlation is observed between changes in the level of Earth?s seismic activity and increments of the atmospheric methane concentration over the past 40 years. Trigger mechanisms are proposed for methane emissions and glacier collapse in polar regions...
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Yue Huang, Ruiwen Ma, Jie Li and Shuyu Tu
Identification and analysis was conducted on the diatoms from the 19 cm sediment of the P6-10 core, drilled from China?s 29th Antarctic Expedition, to attempt to semi-quantitatively reconstruct the annual sea surface temperature (SST) of Prydz Bay from 1...
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Kai-Shan Wang, Di Wu, Tao Zhang, Kai Wu, Chong-Wei Zheng, Cheng-Tao Yi and Yue Yu
Wind energy resource is an important support for the sustainable development of Antarctica. The evaluation of wind energy potential determines the feasibility and economy of wind power generation in Antarctica, among which mastering the variation rule of...
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Alexei V. Chernyshev and Neonila E. Polyakova
To date, a total of 23 valid species of heteronemerteans belonging to 15 genera have been recorded in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters. The ribbon worm Heteronemertes longifissa (Hubrecht, 1887) is the only heteronemertean species reported to have bipol...
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Manuel Vargas-Yáñez, Elena Tel, Marta Marcos, Francina Moya, Enrique Ballesteros, Cristina Alonso and M. Carmen García-Martínez
We present an attempt to estimate the long-term changes in Relative Sea Level (RSL), in addition to the different factors contributing to such trends on a local and regional scale, using a statistical linear model. The time series analysis corresponded t...
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