Search Results - "Barnes, David K. A."
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Millimeter-sized marine plastics: a new pelagic habitat for microorganisms and invertebrates
Published in PloS one (18-06-2014)“…Millimeter-sized plastics are abundant in most marine surface waters, and known to carry fouling organisms that potentially play key roles in the fate and…”
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Functional group diversity is key to Southern Ocean benthic carbon pathways
Published in PloS one (27-06-2017)“…High latitude benthos are globally important in terms of accumulation and storage of ocean carbon, and the feedback this is likely to have on regional warming…”
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The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity
Published in Ecological monographs (01-05-2014)“…Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of…”
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Macroplastics at sea around Antarctica
Published in Marine environmental research (01-08-2010)“…More so than at any previous time, there is a heightened awareness of the amount of plastic in the environment, it’s spread to even remote localities and the…”
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The influence of glacial melt and retreat on the nutritional condition of the bivalve Nuculana inaequisculpta (Protobranchia: Nuculanidae) in the West Antarctic Peninsula
Published in PloS one (21-05-2020)“…Due to climate change, numerous ice bodies have been lost in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). As a consequence, deglaciation is expected to impact the…”
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Reduced survival of Antarctic benthos linked to climate-induced iceberg scouring
Published in Nature climate change (01-10-2011)“…The West Antarctic Peninsula has experienced rapid warming in recent decades. One of the effects has been a loss of the ‘fast-ice’ skin, or frozen layer, that…”
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Patterns, processes and vulnerability of Southern Ocean benthos: a decadal leap in knowledge and understanding
Published in Marine biology (01-09-2013)“…In the Southern Ocean, that is areas south of the Polar Front, long-term oceanographic cooling, geographic separation, development of isolating current and…”
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Environmental constraints on life histories in Antarctic ecosystems: tempos, timings and predictability
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (01-02-2006)“…Knowledge of Antarctic biotas and environments has increased dramatically in recent years. There has also been a rapid increase in the use of novel…”
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Benthic Biodiversity, Carbon Storage and the Potential for Increasing Negative Feedbacks on Climate Change in Shallow Waters of the Antarctic Peninsula
Published in Biology (Basel, Switzerland) (17-02-2022)“…The importance of cold-water blue carbon as biological carbon pumps that sequester carbon into ocean sediments is now being realised. Most polar blue carbon…”
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Highly diverse, poorly studied and uniquely threatened by climate change: an assessment of marine biodiversity on South Georgia's continental shelf
Published in PloS one (25-05-2011)“…We attempt to quantify how significant the polar archipelago of South Georgia is as a source of regional and global marine biodiversity. We evaluate numbers of…”
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Why is the South Orkney Island shelf (the world's first high seas marine protected area) a carbon immobilization hotspot?
Published in Global change biology (01-03-2016)“…The Southern Ocean archipelago, the South Orkney Islands (SOI), became the world's first entirely high seas marine protected area (MPA) in 2010. The SOI…”
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Quantifying zoobenthic blue carbon storage across habitats within the Arctic’s Barents Sea
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (26-01-2024)“…Introduction The Arctic sea ice extent in September (when it is at its lowest) has declined 13% Q10 per decade, and the Arctic Ocean is becoming a more…”
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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (27-07-2009)“…One of the most ubiquitous and long-lasting recent changes to the surface of our planet is the accumulation and fragmentation of plastics. Within just a few…”
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of Antarctic shallow soft-bottom benthic communities: ecological drivers under climate change
Published in BMC ecology (01-07-2019)“…Marine soft sediments are some of the most widespread habitats in the ocean, playing a vital role in global carbon cycling, but are amongst the least studied…”
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Competitive hierarchies in bryozoan assemblages mitigate network instability by keeping short and long feedback loops weak
Published in Communications biology (04-07-2023)“…Competitive hierarchies in diverse ecological communities have long been thought to lead to instability and prevent coexistence. However, system stability has…”
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Turning on the heat: ecological response to simulated warming in the sea
Published in PloS one (14-01-2011)“…Significant warming has been observed in every ocean, yet our ability to predict the consequences of oceanic warming on marine biodiversity remains poor…”
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Ice Scour Disturbance in Antarctic Waters
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (18-07-2008)“…The West Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming regions on Earth, and, as a consequence, most maritime glaciers and ice shelves in the region have…”
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How well do we know the Antarctic marine fauna? A preliminary study of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in Southern Ocean gastropod and bivalve molluscs
Published in Diversity & distributions (01-09-2007)“…The aim of this study was to use data for gastropod and bivalve molluscs to determine whether the fauna of the Southern Ocean is sufficiently well known to…”
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1 °C warming increases spatial competition frequency and complexity in Antarctic marine macrofauna
Published in Communications biology (16-02-2021)“…Environmental conditions of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica have varied little for >5 million years but are now changing. Here, we investigated how…”
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Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate
Published in Global change biology (01-05-2022)“…The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both…”
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