The Colossus of the Abyss
The legend of "Kraken" is not totally false. In the depths of the Antarctic Ocean lies the refuge of a creature similar in size and appearance to myth. The colossal…
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15/06/2017
Cameras network remotely operated: a help to enlarge seabird monitoring in Antarctica
Indicative species is a concept used in the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) as one of the elements used to monitoring and to manage the…
15/05/2016
Antarctic Squids: How the global climate changes affect them?
Cephalopods, particularly squids, are known to play an important role in Southern Ocean (SO). There are eighteen squids’ species in the SO and it is expected that more waits to…
15/04/2016
Decline over time of krill stocks and increase in salp populations in the Southern Ocean
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and salps (such as Salpa thompsoni) are two main grazers in the Southern Ocean. As any other species, the distribution of these two species is profoundly…
15/03/2016
Is it vision or they just smell it: using GPS techniques to track how Wandering albatross find prey
Wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans), with a wingspan of 3.2 meters, they can travel thousands of kilometres in open ocean, foraging on one of the most demanding marine environments of the…
15/02/2016
How Do Polar Marine Ecosystems Respond to Rapid Climate Change?
Climate change will alter marine ecosystems. However, the complexity of the food webs combined with the chronic undersampling, constrains efforts to predict their future and to optimally manage and protect…
15/12/2015
Climate change is responsible for the changes in diet and exposure to contaminants in polar bears
Global warming, one of the most troubling climate change has been associated with several changes in physiology and species distribution. In the Arctic, the increase of the average annual temperature…
15/05/2015
Whales: the death that leads to life!
Usually when a whale dies it sinks into the ocean - an event called whale-fall. When it reaches the deep ocean - a very unproductive area - it provides an ephemeral habitat [1]…
15/04/2015