... Other aspects of species interactions ranged from niche overlap and coexistence of large predators to behavioural interactions between shorebird species. Lake plankton have to adapt to the extreme UV light conditions of the Arctic. It ...
... driving sorted patterned ground formation. These require more detailed investigation. Third, mineralogical and textural variations in bedrock appear to dominate weathering modes and processes. Analytical results are not yet available for ...
... verify the anthropogenic contribution to greenhouse gas has increased the global concentrations far beyond any natural variations seen the last 420 000 years. The present European ice core drilling effort at Dome C has extended the length ...
... of Thermal Biology 22, 429-440. Greenslade, P.J.M. 1983. Adversity selection and the habitat templet. American Naturalist 122, 352-365. Jönsson, K.I. 2003. Energetic and life history adaptations in Antarctic tardigrades. ...
... primary producers in coastal hard bottom ecosystems. Furthermore, they make an essential contribution to the structural heterogeneity of their habitat, thereby increasing the number of ecological niches available to other organisms. ...
... Located along Eurasia’s Arctic margin, this 100 km wide, 1 000 km long fold-belt reaches from the Polar Urals of northern Russia to 77°N on the continental shelf. Its accessibility is dictated today not primarily by the hostility ...
... Another aim is to discuss the role of industrial heritage in the ongoing discussion on environment and on the cultural heritage with regard to national responsibility and national rights. With funding from The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary ...
... that the anthropogenic contribution to greenhouse gases has increased the global concentrations far beyond any natural variations seen the last 420,000 years. The present European ice core drilling effort at EPICA Dome C has extended the ...
... el al, 2003 for recent results from Vostok, Antarctica). The possibility of a previously unrecognised (natural) solar wind effect on weather and climate is being used by some pressure groups to support arguments that current ...
... and South Georgia (Rosqvist et al., 1999; Rosqvist et al., in press; Shemesh et al., 2001). An application to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Isotope Geoscience Steering Committee for financial support for this work has been ...
... the last decade have concerned Eurasia’s northern margin, from Svalbard via the Timan Ridge and the Polar Urals, to Taymyr and Severnaya Zemlya. Since the late 1990s the focus has been on October Revolution Island in the Severnaya ...
... they come from the relatively nearby northeast Greenland margin. Andresen, A. 2001. Terrane amalgamation and structural trends in the North Atlantic-Barents Sea region. Geonytt 27. Gee, D. 1999. Taymyr – enigma of the Siberian ...
... that the anthropogenic contribution of greenhouse gases has increased the global concentrations far beyond any natural variations seen the last 420 000 years. The present European ice core drilling effort at Dome C will extend the existing ...
... Participants Principal investigator Per Johansson Department of Conservation Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Sweden References Barbraud, C. and Weimerskirch, H. 2001. Emperor penguins and climate ...
... of visitors to penguin breeding colonies. Photo: Jonas Waldenström Current knowledge is limited regarding the natural microbial flora and the occurrence of disease-causing organisms among animals in the region. However a few reports have ...
... 2002 Participants Principal investigator Björn Sohlenius* Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm, Sweden Sven Boström* Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm, ...
... Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was added in 1991, Antarctica is to be seen as a “natural reserve, devoted to peace and science” (Protocol, 1991). The Environmental Protocol prevents mineral exploitation and ...
... UV-light (235 nm) emitted 0.15 m above a tray with spores spread out evenly over it. Lycopodium sp. does not grow naturally in Antarctica, nor can it establish in this continent. This experiment was approved by the Swedish Polar Research ...
... Puttut served as base camp and transportation for one week. Photo: Niklas Sparrenbom Background A number of natural processes interact to cause sea level changes. The sea level position is at every point in time and space determined by ...
... beneath the shelf seas. Old, deeply eroded mountain belts, like the Caledonides of Scandinavia and Greenland and the Uralides of central Russia, strike northwards towards the Pole, to be lost beneath the Mesozoic and Tertiary strata of the ...
