© 2017 Baeza, Barahona, Alcaíno and Cifuentes. In cold environments such as polar regions, microorganisms play important ecological roles, and most of our knowledge about them comes from studies of cultivable microorganisms. ...

In cold environments such as polar regions, microorganisms play important ecological roles, and most of our knowledge about them comes from studies of cultivable microorganisms. Metagenomic technologies are powerful tools ...

The presence of metals in the Antarctic environment is a natural phenomenon caused by geochemical characteristics of the region, however some anthropogenic activities can increase these natural levels. Antarctic penguins ...

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) accepts proposals presented by its international membership for the designation of Marine Protected Areas (MPA). Since CCAMLR s inception ...

The fast changes in chemical and biological properties of many coastal and inland waters in the last decades reflect the pressure of man on the environment. The surface waters of the Antarctic Peninsula, located far from ...

Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort) is one of the only two native vascular plants to inhabit the extreme environmental conditions of Antarctica. Colobanthus quitensis has a wide geographic distribution, both in ...

Climate change is rapidly shaping the living environment of the most abundant keystone species of the Antarctic marine food web, Antarctic krill. Projected future changes for the krill habitat include a sustained increase ...

Antarctic notothenioid fish display specializations related to cope with their chronically cold environment, such as high triacylglycerol (TAG) content in tissues. The metabolic fate of glycerol, a product of TAG mobilization, ...