Dossier
Antarctica
The work of researchers on Antarctica has a wide variety of subjects, from polar sea to sea ice and from krill to whales. In this dossier you can find news, backgrounds and results of research of Wageningen University & Research in the Antarctic region. Also, follow expeditions to Antarctica in our researchers' blogs.
In this dossier, you can find research conducted by Wageningen University & Research in relation to its Statutory Research Task (WOT) in Antarctic Research for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. This task follows from the Netherlands' consultative membership in the Antarctic Treaty, the international agreement for shared government of the Antarctic continent and Southern Oceans. Additional support is obtained from the Netherlands Polar Program of the Netherlands Science Foundation and from foreign host countries that kindly support logistics in our cooperative projects.
The work in the Antarctic has a wide variety of subjects, but has a shared focus on the important role of sea ice in sustaining the rich polar food webs. That focus leads to occasional participation in comparative research expeditions in Arctic areas. When possible, the dossier provides blogs from expeditioners in the field.
Expedition blogs
- Wageningen University & Research blogs - Antarctica
- Antarctic expedition sea-ice (2014-2015)
- Winter research in the Antarctic (2013)
Publications
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The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae : A profile update
Molecular Plant Pathology (2023), Volume: 24, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1464-6722 - p. 89-106. -
Sustainable Squirrel Conservation : A Modern Reassessment of Family Sciuridae
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Multicompartment Depletion Factors for Water Consumption on a Global Scale
Environmental Science and Technology (2023), Volume: 57, Issue: 10 - ISSN 0013-936X - p. 4318-4331. -
Environmental, geographical and time-related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus), a globally invasive species
Global Ecology and Biogeography (2023), Volume: 32, Issue: 5 - ISSN 1466-822X - p. 809-823. -
Swine global genomic resources : insights into wild and domesticated populations
Mammalian Genome (2023), Volume: 34, Issue: 4 - ISSN 0938-8990 - p. 520-530. -
Allometric relationships of ecologically important Antarctic and Arctic zooplankton and fish species
Polar Biology (2022), Volume: 45, Issue: 2 - ISSN 0722-4060 - p. 203-224. -
How Might World Heritage Status Support the Protection of Sacred Natural Sites? : An Analysis of Nomination Files, Management, and Governance Contexts
Land (2022), Volume: 11, Issue: 1 - ISSN 2073-445X -
Two decades of flask observations of atmospheric (O2/N2), CO2, and APO at stations Lutjewad (the Netherlands) and Mace Head (Ireland), and 3 years from Halley station (Antarctica)
Earth System Science Data (2022), Volume: 14, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1866-3508 - p. 991-1014. -
Global patterns and drivers of soil total phosphorus concentration
Earth System Science Data (2021), Volume: 13, Issue: 12 - ISSN 1866-3508 - p. 5831-5846. -
Seasonal variation in the positional distribution of fatty acids in bovine milk fat (Supplementary Tables)