Keywords:
Earth sciences.
;
Life sciences.
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The continent at the end of the world -- Chapter 2: A brief history of an arduous discovery -- Chapter 3: Paleoclimate: looking for the importance of Antarctica -- Chapter 4: Survival lessons: Mars on Earth -- Chapter 5: Perpetually moving glaciers: where icebergs emerge -- Chapter 6: The Antarctic ice floe -- Chapter 7: Microbes -- Chapter 8: Ice, algae, krill -- Chapter 9: Life in the dark: a diversity explosion under the ice -- Chapter 10: Birds at the end of the world -- Chapter 11: Large mammals of the white continent -- Chapter 12: Climate change: not so isolated -- Chapter 13: What happened in Larsen? -- Chapter 14: Organisms and climate change -- Chapter 15: The ozone layer and Antarctica -- Chapter 16: Pollutants in a pristine place -- Chapter 17: The final resort -- Chapter. 18: Remote fishing grounds -- Chapter 19: Ecotourism and invasive species -- Chapter 20: The Antarctic Treaty -- Chapter 21: Antarctic bases -- Chapter 22: Living on an ocean-going icebreaker -- Chapter. 23: The last bastion of an unspoiled planet.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XV, 198 p. 21 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
ISBN:
9783030894924
Series Statement:
Popular Science
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89492-4
URL:
https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1789600898cov.jpg
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-89492-4
Language:
English
