Relevant Publications
Celussi M, Paoli A, Crevatin E, Bergamasco A, Margiotta F, Saggiomo V, Fonda Umani, Del Negro P (2009) Short-term under-ice variability of prokaryotic plankton communities in coastal Antarctic waters (Cape Hallet, Ross Sea). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 81: 491–500
Danovaro R, Dell’Anno A, Corinaldesi C, Magagnini M, Noble R, Tamburini C, Weinbauer M. (2008) Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems. Nature, 454:1084–1087
De Vargas C, Audic S, Henry N, …., Zingone A, et al. (2015) Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean. Science 348, 6237
Del Negro P, Celussi M, De Vittor C, Fonda Umani S. 2018. Rapid acclimation of microbes to changing substrate polls in epipelagic waters of an Antarctic polynya during austral summer 2003. Polar Biology 41: 1-10
Dell’Anno A, Corinaldesi C, Danovaro R. (2015) Virus decomposition provides an important contribution to benthic deep-sea ecosystem functioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112:E2014-E2019
Fonda Umani S, Monti M, Bergamasco A, Cabrini M, De Vittor C, Burba N, Del Negro P (2005) Plankton community structure and dynamics versus physical structure from Terra Nova Bay to Ross Ice Shelf (Antarctica). Journal of Marine Systems 55: 31–46
Guglielmo L, Carrada GC, Catalano G, Dell’Anno A, Fabiano M, Lazzara L, Saggiomo V (2000) Structural and functional properties of sympagic communities in the annual sea ice at Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica). Pol Biol 23: 137-146
Keeling PJ, Burki HM, Wilcox B, ….., Zingone A, Worden AZ (2014) The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the functional diversity of eukaryotic life in the Oceans through transcriptome sequencing. PLoS Biology 12:e1001889
Luna, G. M., Chiggiato, J., Quero, G. M., Schroeder, K., Bongiorni, L., Kalenitchenko, D., Galand, P. E. (2016). Dense water plumes modulate richness and productivity of deep sea microbes. Environmental Microbiology, 18: 4537–4548
Meredith MP, King JC (2005) Rapid climate change in the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the second half of the 20th century. Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L19604
Moline, M. A., H. Claustre, T. K. Frazer, O. Schofield, M. Vernet (2004). Alteration of the food web along the Antarctic Peninsula in response to a regional warming trend. Glob. Chang. Biol.10: 1973–1980.
Montes-Hugo M, Doney SC, Ducklow HW, Fraser W, Martinson D, Stammerjohn SE, Schofield O (2009) Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the western Antarctic Peninsula. Science 323: 1470–1473.
Rintoul SR, Chown SL, DeConto RM, England MH, Fricker HA, Masson-Delmotte V, Naish TR, Siegert MJ, Xavier JC (2018) Choosing the future of Antarctica. Nature 558: 233–241
Schofield O, Ducklow HW, Martinson DG, Meredith MP, Moline MA, Fraser WR (2010) How do polar marine ecosystems respond to rapid climate change? Science 328: 1520–1523
Sinclair KE, Bertler NAN, Bowen MM, Arrigo KR (2014) Twentieth century sea-ice trends in the Ross Sea from a high-resolution, coastal ice-core record. Geophysical Research Letters 41: 3510–3516.
Smetacek V, Nicol S (2005) Polar ocean ecosystems in a changing world. Nature 437: 362–368
Stammerjohn S, Massom R, Rind D, Martinson D (2012). Regions of rapid sea ice change: an interhemispheric seasonal comparison. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L06501
Turner J, Colwell SR, Marshall GJ, Lachlan-Cope TA, Carleton AM, Jones PD, Lagun V, Reid PA, Iagovkina S (2005) Antarctic climate change during the last 50 years. Int. J. Climatol. 25: 279–294.
Wilkins D, van Sebille E, Rintoul SR, Lauro FM, Cavicchioli R (2013) Advection shapes Southern Ocean microbial assemblages independent of distance and environment effects. Nature Comm, 4
Wilkins D, Yau S, Williams TJ, Allen MA, Brown MV, DeMaere MZ, Lauro F, Cavicchioli R (2013) Key microbial drivers in Antarctic aquatic environments. FEMS Microbiol Rev 37: 303–335