TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verde,Cinzia
AU  - di Prisco,Guido
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2: The Impacts of Global Change on Biodiversity 
T2  - From Pole to Pole,
SN  - 9783642273490
AV  - GE300-350 
U1  - 363.7063 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Environment
KW  - Geobiology
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Evolutionary biology
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
KW  - Biogeosciences
KW  - Climate Change
KW  - Evolutionary Biology
N1  - Biodiversity Evolution and Data Management -- Evolution - A Molecular Perspective -- Monitoring and Management
N2  - The second volume of "Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments - The Impacts of Global Change on Biodiversity" from the series "From Pole to Pole" integrates the marine biology contribution of the first tome to the IPY 2007-2009, presenting overviews of organisms (from bacteria and ciliates to higher vertebrates) thriving on polar continental shelves, slopes and deep sea. The speed and extent of warming in the Arctic and in regions of Antarctica (the Peninsula, at the present ) are greater than elsewhere. Changes impact several parameters, in particular the extent of sea ice; organisms, ecosystems and communities that became finely adapted to increasing cold in the course of millions of years are now becoming vulnerable, and biodiversity is threatened. Investigating evolutionary adaptations helps to foresee the impact of changes in temperate areas, highlighting the invaluable contribution of polar marine research to present and future outcomes of the IPY in the Earth system scenario
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27349-0
ER  -