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Environmental Processes, Biodiversity and Changes in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica

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The isolation of Antarctica from South America during the Oligocene (~35 mya) formed the Southern Ocean, generated the northward flow of the Atlantic Antarctic Bottom Water, and numerous unique geological and oceanic processes (e.g. an active spreading centre in the Bransfield Strait, ridge trench collision, gas hydrates on modern sediments, and complex circulation) along the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula in particular (Barker and Burrell 1982; Pearse et al. 2001; Barker and Thomas 2004; Thomson 2004; Turner et al. 2009).

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Acknowledgments

Data have been gathered under the CAML umbrella and in projects funded by CNPq IPY Project MABIREH (Process No. 52.0293/2006-1), the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology on Antarctic Environmental Research (INCT-APA) funded through CNPq (Process No. 574018/2008-5), FAPERJ (Process No. E-26170.023/2008), and CNPq Project Southern Ocean Benthic Observing Systems (SOBE, Process No. 557126/2009-6). Sampling and data integration have been supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), Ministry of Environment (MMA), and Interministerial Secretariat for the Brazilian Marine Resources (SECIRM). We thank all the personnel involved in this work. The order of authors is alphabetical, except for the first author. Anonymous reviewers are thanked for their useful comments and contribution to this chapter. This is an EBA contribution under Workpackage 4.

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  1. Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av Carlos Chagas Filho 373, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, 21941-902, Brazil

    Lúcia S. Campos, Carlos A. M. Barboza, Manuela Bassoi, Priscila K. Lange, Andre M. Lanna, Helena P. Lavrado, Tatiana Morales, Rafael B. Moura, Thayane Oackes, Rodolfo Paranhos, Mariane Rodrigues, Denise R. Tenenbaum & Yocie Yoneshigue-Valentin

  2. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Outeiro de São João Batista s/no, Niterói-RJ, 24020-141, Brazil

    Carlos A. M. Barboza & Marcelo Bernardes

  3. Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Praça do Oceanográfico 191, São Paulo-SP, 05508-120, Brazil

    Sandra Bromberg, Thaïs N. Corbisier, Paula F. Gheller, Helena G. Kawall, Gabriel C. S. Monteiro, Rosalinda C. Montone, Monica A. V. Petti & Vivian H. Pellizari

  4. Campus Experimental do Litoral Paulista, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Praça Infante Dom Henrique s/no, São Vicente-SP, 11330-900, Brazil

    Roberto F. C. Fontes

  5. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/no, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, 20940-040, Brazil

    Eduardo Hajdu

  6. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av Prof Moraes Rego 1235, Recife-PE, 50670-420, Brazil

    Rafael B. Moura

  7. Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Artur Riedel 275, Diadema-SP, 09972-270, Brazil

    Cristina R. Nakayama

  8. Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Campinas-SP, 13083-970, Brazil

    Flávio D. Passos

  9. Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Av. Alberto Lamego 2000, Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ, 28013-602, Brazil

    Carlos E. Rezende

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    Luiz Henrique Rosa

  11. Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Av Italia, Km 8, Rio Grande-RS, 96201-900, Brazil

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Campos, L.S. et al. (2013). Environmental Processes, Biodiversity and Changes in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica. In: Verde, C., di Prisco, G. (eds) Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27349-0_8

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