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Media invitation - Environmental change in Antarctic lakes and seas: the chances for survival or extinction? BA Festival of Science, Univ of Leicester
September 05, 2002The effects of the warming of the Earth`s climate on Antarctic lakes and seas is a matter of life or death for many plants and animals at the frozen continent.
Professor Lloyd Peck, biologist with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discusses the prospects for survival or extinction of Antarctic marine and lake life today (9 Sept) at a special seminar - Frontiers in Polar Science session organised by the international journal SCIENCE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
If predictions from global climate models are correct the prospects for cold-blooded marine animals like giant sea spiders are bleak. But, by contrast, recent warming in some Antarctic lakes has allowed microalgae to thrive.
ENDS .... Full text of talk in notes for editors
High-res images available at: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and_Information/Press_Releases/press_pix/09_2002/
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
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