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The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity.
Review in Nature, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.
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89 citing papers in PubMed.
- Widespread horizontal transfer and strong selection enhance microbial adaptation in Antarctic soils.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The Antarctic Seafloor Annotated Imagery Database.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Climate-driven range shifts across Subantarctic and Antarctic terrestrial and marine niches in sheathbills (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Global increase in the endemism of birds from north to south.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Antarctic ice-free terrestrial microbial functional redundancy in core ecological functions and microhabitat-specific microbial taxa and adaptive strategy.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- The Microbial Ecology of Antarctic Sponges.Microbial ecology · 2025Review
- RNA virus diversity highlights the potential biosecurity threat posed by Antarctic krill.Marine life science & technology · 2025Article
- A dataset of Antarctic ecosystems in ice-free lands: classification, descriptions, and maps.Scientific data · 2025Article
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- Psychrotrophic Antarctic marine bacteria as potential reservoirs for novel antimicrobial genes.FEMS microbes · 2025Article
- Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Macrogenomic Analysis Reveals Soil Microbial Diversity in Different Regions of the Antarctic Peninsula.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Alteration of the gut microbiota changes during the one-year Antarctic deployment in a group of Chinese Han population.BMC microbiology · 2024Article
- Global distribution, diversity, and ecological niche of Picozoa, a widespread and enigmatic marine protist lineage.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Detection and spread of high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the Antarctic Region.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Photostasis and photosynthetic adaptation to polar life.Photosynthesis research · 2024Review
- Soils of two Antarctic Dry Valleys exhibit unique microbial community structures in response to similar environmental disturbances.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
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- Resistance to freezing conditions of endemic Antarctic polychaetes is enhanced by cryoprotective proteins produced by their microbiome.Science advances · 2024Article
29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Antarctic biodiversity is much more extensive, ecologically diverse and biogeographically structured than previously thought. Understanding of how this diversity is distributed in marine and terrestrial systems, the mechanisms underlying its spatial variation, and the significance of the microbiota is growing rapidly. Broadly recognizable drivers of diversity variation include energy availability and historical refugia. The impacts of local human activities and global environmental change nonetheless pose challenges to the current and future understanding of Antarctic biodiversity. Life in the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean is surprisingly rich, and as much at risk from environmental change as it is elsewhere.
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