Title Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean / Bruno David, Thomas Saucède

Published London : ISTE Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 116 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction ; Chapter 1: A brief history of exploration and discovery ; Chapter 2: The Southern Ocean and its environment: a world of extremes ; Chapter 3: The Ocean through time ; Chapter 4: Southern Ocean biogeography and communities ; Chapter 5: History of biodiversity in the Southern Ocean ; Chapter 6: Adaptation of organisms ; Chapter 7: Projections into the future ; Appendix Summary 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? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-114) and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 3, 2015) Subject Marine biodiversity -- Antarctic Ocean Marine ecology -- Antarctic Ocean Climatic changes -- Antarctic Ocean Marine organisms -- Adaptation -- Cold regions Extreme environments -- Antarctic Ocean NATURE -- Ecology. NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness. SCIENCE -- Environmental Science. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology. Marine organisms -- Adaptation Marine ecology Marine biodiversity Extreme environments Climatic changes Adaptation (Biology) Cold regions Antarctic Ocean Form Electronic book Author Saucède, Thomas, author. ISBN 0081004850 9780081004852 9781785480478 1785480472

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