Book contents
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Ecological Reviews
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Extreme environments: responses and adaptation to change
- Part II Biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions
- Part III Life in extreme environments and the responses to change: the example of polar environments
- Chapter Seven Life in the extreme environments of our planet under pressure
- Chapter Eight The ecophysiology of responding to change in polar marine benthos
- Chapter Nine The Southern Ocean: an extreme environment or just home of unique ecosystems?
- Chapter Ten Microorganisms in cryoturbated organic matter of Arctic permafrost soils
- Chapter Eleven Chemical ecology in the Southern Ocean
- Chapter Twelve Metabolic and taxonomic diversity in antarctic subglacial environments
- Part IV Life and habitability
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Chapter Nine - The Southern Ocean: an extreme environment or just home of unique ecosystems?
from Part III - Life in extreme environments and the responses to change: the example of polar environments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2020
Book contents
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Ecological Reviews
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Extreme environments: responses and adaptation to change
- Part II Biodiversity, bioenergetic processes, and biotic and abiotic interactions
- Part III Life in extreme environments and the responses to change: the example of polar environments
- Chapter Seven Life in the extreme environments of our planet under pressure
- Chapter Eight The ecophysiology of responding to change in polar marine benthos
- Chapter Nine The Southern Ocean: an extreme environment or just home of unique ecosystems?
- Chapter Ten Microorganisms in cryoturbated organic matter of Arctic permafrost soils
- Chapter Eleven Chemical ecology in the Southern Ocean
- Chapter Twelve Metabolic and taxonomic diversity in antarctic subglacial environments
- Part IV Life and habitability
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
CAREX roadmap defined an extreme environment as having ‘parameters showing values permanently close to lower or upper limits known for life in its various forms’ (CAREX, 2011). In the Southern Ocean (SO) physical–chemical conditions shape life to a greater extent than in other marine ecosystems, due to for example the pronounced seasonality and freezing temperatures, particularly in sea-ice.
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