Antarctic Ecosystems
Subtitle: Environmental Contamination, Climate Change, and Human Impact (Ecological Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9783540220916
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Science/Mathematics; Environmental conditions; Ecology; Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Earth Sciences - Geology; Life Sciences - Ecology; Antarctic; Science / Ecology; climate change; environmental contamination; natural resources managment; nature conservation; polar biology; Environmental Science; Antarctica; Biotic communities; Effect of human beings on; Nature
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.