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2012/13 Biology and Ecology

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B 225 M: Exploring the vulnerability of Southern Ocean ...

This project will investigate the response of seals in the Ross Sea to climate change over the past several thousand years. This work follows on the PI’s recent southern elephant seals project and involves examining the population structure and paleoeco ...

B 247 M: CAREER: Protist diversity and function in the ...

The overall objectives of this project are to understand the metabolic versatility of single-celled eukaryotic microbial (protist) species residing in McMurdo Dry Valley (MDV) lakes and link protist trophic strategy with specific abiotic drivers (eg: temp ...

B 330 M: Collaborative research: An integrated ecologic...

Because the McMurdo Dry Valley (MDV) soil bacterial community this is a microbially dominated system, knowing what fraction of the microbial diversity of the region is active and what functional role it plays is critical to understanding the ecology of th ...

G 439: Collaborative Research: Microbally Mediated Alte...

Antarctica is a very harsh continent with very little life. Food webs have to be very “creative” to adjust to conditions that have been compared to life on other planets or during the early Earth. This project will use these special conditions to expl ...

K016: Genomic Indicators of Climate Change

We aim to identify the molecular basis by which Adélie penguins have responded to a ~10°C increase in temperature since the last glacial maximum. We will sequence the genomes of a number of ancient Adélie penguins from the late Pleistocene. The hypothe ...

K020: Protection of Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems

This research will deliver a bio geographical characterisation for the entire Ross Sea region, together with a predictive model for the effects of climate change. We will achieve this by greatly extending and upgrading our existing model that links the bi ...

K025: Biodiversity, Dynamics and Metabolics of Heteroge...

The goals of this project are to characterise the pond microbiology across the Bratina Island, Miers Mouth, and Koettlitz Glacier study sites using DNA fingerprinting and high throughput sequencing. We will compare the communities within and between sites ...

K081: Identification and Management of Change in Inland...

This programme’s goal is to determine how climate‐driven hydrological change controls the biological structure and biodiversity values of Antarctica’s inland aquatic ecosystems by quantifying and modelling the climatehydrology‐ biodiversity linkag ...