Antarctic Ecosystems
Subtitle: Environmental Contamination, Climate Change, and Human Impact (Ecological Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9783540740056
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Science; Science/Mathematics; Antarctica; Earth Sciences - Geology; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Antarctic; Antarktis; Klimaveränderung; Management natürlicher Ressourcen; Naturschutz; Polarbiologie; Science / Ecology; Umweltverschmutzung; climate change; ecology; environmental contamination; natural resources managment; nature conservation
First sentence: Several regions of the Earth, such as Lake Baikal and the Himalayas, are usually described through several superlatives, but none can compete with Antarctica: the remotest, coldest, windiest, highest continent, with the biggest and thickest ice sheet.