Publications and Reports

DOWNLOAD: All publications that contribute to EBA (2006-2008) - last updated 13 March 08

EBA Reports
EBA Science Plan 2004
EBA Implementation Plan 2005
EBA's 2-year report submitted to SCAR 2008
SCAR's review of EBA 2008
EBA Committee Meeting minutes, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1 August 2010

SCAR Reports

SCAR EXCOM Bulletin, 2011

SCAR newsletters in 2011

Report on the XXX Meeting of the SCAR Delegates 14-16 July 2008
SCAR Report on Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE, 2009)
Report of the XXXI SCAR Delegates Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina 9-11 August 2010

Programme proposal for the State of the Antarctic Ecosystem (AntEco)

Programme for the Antarctic Ecosystems: Adaptations, Thresholds and Resilience (AntETR)

Special Issues

Patterns, processes and vulnerability of Antarctic and Southern Ocean benthos ‐ a decadal leap in knowledge and understanding. Marine Biology - online first

Polar Biology - Volume 34, Number 11, November 2011

Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography - The Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Diversity and change in Southern Ocean Ecosystems

Antarctic Science - Volume 22 - Special Issue 06 (The Latitudinal Gradient Project)

Antarctic Biology in the 21st Century-Advances in and beyond IPY: Special Issue of Polar Science 4(2) 2010

MERGE Special Issue of Polar Science 3(3) 2009

Marine Genomics: Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 1-80 (March 2009) Proceedings of The Polar and Alpine Environments: Molecular and Evolutionary Adaptations in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Organisms - Part 1 Naples 29-30 May 2008 Edited by Guido di Prisco, Piero Luporini, Luisa Tutino and Cinzia Verde

Marine Genomics: Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 81-148 (June 2009) Proceedings of The Polar and Alpine Environments: Molecular and Evolutionary Adaptations in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Organisms - Part 1 Naples 29-30 May 2008 Edited by Guido di Prisco, Piero Luporini, Luisa Tutino and Cinzia Verde

BIOPEARL Cruise in the Scotia Sea
Antarctic Science Special Edition Volume 20(3) 2007.

IX SCAR International Biology Symposium Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica
Antarctic Science Special Edition Volume 19(2) 2007. Eds E. Fanta, W. Arntz, W. Detrich, H. Kawall

Antarctic Ecology: From Genes to Ecosystems. Part 1. Rogers, A.D, Murphy, E., Clarke, A., Johnston, N. (eds). Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Vol. 363(1477), 2007.

Antarctic Ecology: From Genes to Ecosystems. Part 2. Rogers, A.D, Murphy, E., Clarke, A., Johnston, N. (eds). Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 2007.

Book Chapters

Books
Vincent, W.F. and Laybourn-Parry, J. (eds). 2008. Polar Lakes and Rivers - Limnology of Arctic and Antarctic Aquatic Ecosystems. Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921389-4.

Examples of Individual Publications

Verde C, Giordano D, Russo R, Riccio A, Coppola D, di Prisco G (2011) Evolutionary adaptations in Antarctic fish: The oxygen-transport system Oecologia Australis 15: 40-50

Boron I, Russo R, Boechi L, Cheng CH, di Prisco G, Estrin DA, Verde C, Nadra AD (2011)
Structure and dynamics of Antarctic fish neuroglobin assessed by computer simulations.
IUBMB Life 63: 206-213

Giordano D, Russo R, Ciaccio C, Howes BD, di Prisco G, Marden MC, Hui Bon Hoa G, Smulevich G, Massimo Coletta M, Verde C (2011) Ligand- and proton-linked conformational changes of the ferrous 2/2 hemoglobin of Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125.
IUBMB Life 63: 566-573

Howes BD, Giordano D, Boechi L, Russo R, Mucciacciaro S, Ciaccio C, Sinibaldi F, Fittipaldi M, Martí MA, Estrin DA, di Prisco G, Coletta M, Verde C, Smulevich G (2011) The peculiar heme pocket of the 2/2 hemoglobin of cold-adapted Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125. J Biol Inorg Chem 16: 299-311

Merlino A, Howes BD, di Prisco G, Verde C, Smulevich G, Mazzarella L, Vergara A (2011) Occurrence and formation of endogenous histidine hexa-coordination in cold-adapted hemoglobins. IUBMB Life 63: 295-303

Riccio A, Mangiapia G, Giordano D, Flagiello A, Tedesco R, Bruno S, Vergara A, Mazzarella L, di Prisco G, Pucci P, Paduano L, Verde C (2011) Polymerisation of hemoglobins in Arctic fish: Lycodes reticulatus and Gadus morhua. IUBMB Life 63: 346-354

di Prisco G, Giordano D, Russo R, Verde C (2011) Haemoproteins in cold enviroments - An evolutionary view. In: Hemoglobin: Recent Developments and Topics. (Ed M Nagai) Research Signpost pp 211-229.

Verde C, Giordano D, Russo R, di Prisco G (2011) “Hemoglobin differentiation in fishes”. In: on-line Encyclopaedia of Fish Physiology, from Genome to Environment (Ed T Farrell) Vol 2, pp 944–950. San Diego: Academic Press

Verde C, Giordano D, Russo R, di Prisco G (2011) “Erythropoiesis in fishes”. In: on-line Encyclopaedia of Fish Physiology, from Genome to Environment. (Ed Farrell T. ) Vol 2, pp 992-997. San Diego: Academic Press

di Prisco G, Verde C, Convey P (2011) A living and changing Antarctic. Internatl Innovation (Research Media Ltd).Issue 1: 104-105

di Prisco G, Verde C, Convey P (2011) EBA: advancing our understanding of Antarctica. Internatl Innovation (Research Media Ltd).Issue 1: 106-107

Thatje, S. and Aronson, R.B. 2009. No future for the Antarctic Treaty? Guest Editorial. Frotiers and Ecology and the Environment. View Here.

Convey, P. et al. 2009. Exploring biological constraints on the glacial history of Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 3035–3048. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.08.015

Convey, P. et al. 2009. Antarctic climate change and the environment. Review. Antarctic Science 21(6), 541–563. doi:10.1017/S0954102009990642

Caruso, T., Hogg, I.D., Carapelli, A., Frati, F., Bargagli, R. 2009. Large-scale spatial patterns in the distribution of Collembola (Hexapoda) species in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of biogeography 36: 879-886 2009.

David K. A. Barnes, Stefanie Kaiser, Huw J. Griffiths and Katrin Linse. 2009. Marine, intertidal, freshwater and
terrestrial biodiversity of an isolated polar archipelago. Journal of Biogeography 36: 756-769.

Tin, T. et al. 2009. Impacts of local human activities on the Antarctic environment. A review. Antarctic Science 21(1): 3-33. doi:10.1017/S0954102009001722

A. McGaughran, G.P. Redding, M.I. Stevens, P. Convey. 2009. Temporal metabolic rate variation in a continental Antarctic springtail. Journal of Insect Physiology 55: 130-135. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2008.10.009

Convey, P. et al. 2008. Antarctic terrestrial life - challenging the history of the frozen continent? Biol rev. 83: 103-117. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00034.x

Adams, B. J., Wall, D.H., Gozel, U., Dillman, A.R., Chaston, J.M., Hogg, I.D. 2007. The southernmost worm, Scottnema lindsayae (Nematoda): diversity, dispersal and ecological stability. Polar Biology 30: 809-815.
Doi: 10.1007/s00300-006-0241-3

Convey P, Stevens MI. 2007. Antarctic Biodiversity. Science 317(5846): 1877-1878.

Wagstaff, S. J., and Hennion, F. 2007.Evolution and biogeography of Lyallia and Hectorella (Portulacaceae), geographically isolated sisters from the Southern Hemisphere. Antarctic Science 19(4), 417-426. DOI: 10.1017/S0954 102007000648

Project Publications
LGP-related publications and reports: http://www.lgp.aq/publications/

BIOFLAME and P. Convey Publications

Major Publications from EBA’s Predecessor programmes:
RiSCC (Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems):

Download of All RiSCC Publications

Download of Australian Antarctic Division RiSCC Publications

Bergstrom D, Convey P & Huiskes AHL eds. 2006. Trends in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems, Antarctica as a global indicator. Springer, Dordrecht, xii + 370 pp.

Gremmen NJM & Smith VR. 2004. The vascular flora of Marion and Prince Edward Islands. CD-ROM. Data Analyse Ecologie, Diever. ISBN 90-808854-1-X.

Greenslade, P.M. 2006. The Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Insecta by van Klinken, R.D., & Greenslade, P.M. Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston. Pp. i-xvi, 1-326.

Seppelt, R.D. 2004. The Moss Flora of Macquarie Island. Australian Antarctic Division, Commonwealth of Australia. Pp. i-xiii, 1-327.

Ovstedal, D.O.; Smith, R.I.L. 2001. Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia; a guide to their identification and ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. pp. 411. ISBN: 0-521-66241-9

EVOLANTA (Evolutionary Biology of Antarctic Organisms) Special Issue of Antarctic Science:
Adaptive Evolution of Antarctic Marine Organisms, Eds J Eastman, J Gutt, G di Prisco, 2004, volume 16: 1-93

EASIZ (The Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone) special issue:
Deep Sea Research II (2006, volume 53: 803-1140)

Posters
Biodiversity Database (2008)

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