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Bringing Antarctica to the lab: a polar desert environmental chamber to study the response of Antarctic microbial communities to climate change

Authors: M.Monteira, A.Marshall, C.Lee, A.McDonald, C.Cary
Year Published: 2023
Document Type: Papers
Ownership: Polar Biology
Summary: A custom-designed Polar Desert Environmental Chamber to perform off-continent experimental ecological research - characterising arid edaphic bacterial communities collected from the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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Soil environmental DNA metabarcoding in low-biomass regions requires protocol optimization: a case study in Antarctica

Authors: P.Olmedo-Rojas, G.Jeunen, M.Lamare, J.Turnbull, N.Gemmel, C.Fraser
Year Published: 2023
Document Type: Papers
Ownership: Antarctic Science
Summary: Optimized workflow for soil metabarcoding through a comparative study encompassing variation in sampling strategy, DNA extraction and library preparation.
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Choosing the future of Antarctica

Authors: S. R. Rintoul, S.L. Chown, R.M. DeCento, et all
Year Published: 2021
Document Type: Papers
Summary: We present two narratives on the future of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, from the perspective of an observer looking back from 2070. In the first scenario, greenhouse gas emissions remained unchecked, the climate continued to warm, and the policy response was ineffective; this had large ramifications in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, with worldwide impacts. In the second scenario, ambitious action was taken to limit greenhouse gas emissions and to establish policies that reduced anthropogenic pressure on the environment, slowing the rate of change in Antarctica.
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Antarctic ecosystem in transition – life between stresses and opportunities

Authors: Julian Gutt, Enrique Isla, José C. Xavier et all
Year Published: 2021
Document Type: Papers
Summary: Important findings from the second decade of the 21st century on the impact of environmental change on biological pro-cesses in the Antarctic were synthesised by 26 international experts. Ten key messages emerged that have stakeholder-relevance and/or a high impact for the scientific community.