prospects for surviving climate change in antarctic aquatic species气候变化在南极水生物种生存的前景.pdfVIP

Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Review Open Access Prospects for surviving climate change in Antarctic aquatic species Lloyd S Peck* Address: Natural Environment Research Council, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK Email: Lloyd S Peck* - l.peck@bas.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 06 June 2005 Received: 11 February 2005 Accepted: 06 June 2005 Frontiers in Zoology 2005, 2:9 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-2-9 This article is available from: /content/2/1/9 © 2005 Peck; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Maritime Antarctic freshwater habitats are amongst the fastest changing environments on Earth. Temperatures have risen around 1°C and ice cover has dramatically decreased in 15 years. Few animal species inhabit these sites, but the fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini typifies those that do. This species survives up to 25°C daily temperature fluctuations in summer and passes winter as eggs at temperatures down to -25°C. Its annual temperature envelope is, therefore around 50°C. This is typical of Antarctic terrestrial species, which exhibit great physiological flexibility in coping with temperature fluctuations. The rapidly changing conditions in the Maritime Antarctic