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By Stefano Schiaparelli, Bruno Danis, Victoria Wadley, D. Michael Stoddart (auth.), Cinzia Verde, Guido di Prisco (eds.)

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The moment quantity of “Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments – The affects of worldwide swap on Biodiversity” from the sequence “From Pole to Pole” integrates the marine biology contribution of the 1st tome to the IPY 2007-2009, proposing overviews of organisms (from micro organism and ciliates to better vertebrates) thriving on polar continental cabinets, slopes and deep sea. the rate and volume of warming within the Arctic and in areas of Antarctica (the Peninsula, at the moment ) are more than somewhere else. adjustments effect a number of parameters, specifically the level of sea ice; organisms, ecosystems and groups that grew to become finely tailored to expanding chilly during hundreds of thousands of years at the moment are changing into susceptible, and biodiversity is threatened. Investigating evolutionary diversifications is helping to foresee the influence of alterations in temperate parts, highlighting the useful contribution of polar marine study to give and destiny results of the IPY within the Earth method scenario.

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Under the CAML umbrella, material obtained in the framework of different expeditions was studied in a coordinated fashion, by focusing on gaps, setting priorities for most important taxa and avoiding any loss of resources deriving by potentially duplicated collecting effort in similar regions by different research groups (Grant et al. 2011). g. Hemery et al. 2012). 4 Published Results and Journal Special Issues Several journal special issues have appeared in the last years entirely or only partly dedicated to specific CAML voyages or to national Projects linked to CAML.

Deep-Sea Res II 58:230–241 Hemery LG, Eléaume M, Roussel V, Améziane N, Gallut C, Steinke D, Cruaud C, Couloux A, Wilson NG (2012) Comprehensive sampling reveals circumpolarity and sympatry in seven mitochondrial lineages of the Southern Ocean crinoid species Promachocrinus kerguelensis (Echinodermata). Mol Ecol 21:2502–2518 Hosie GW, Koubbi P, Riddle MJ, Ozouf-Costaz C, Moteki M, Fukuchi M, Ameziane N, Ishimaru T, Goffart A (2011) CEAMARC, the collaborative east Antarctic marine census for the census of antarctic marine life (IPY # 53): an overview.

Biodiversity and set reference baselines to allow measuring change. CAML’s sister project was the Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD), devoted to the census of Arctic marine biodiversity. Thanks to strong interaction with this project, it is now possible to draw comparisons between differences in ecological structure and dynamics of the Arctic and Southern Oceans (Gradinger et al. 2010; Gutt et al. 2010). 1 The IPY Proposal In considering its contribution as part of the ‘‘Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA)’’ programme, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) accepted a proposal that a Census of Antarctic Marine Life be undertaken as a major activity during IPY and in July 2004 appointed an international Steering Committee to guide the project.

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