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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Shotgun metagenomics reveal a diverse assemblage of protists in a model Antarctic soil ecosystem
Environmental Microbiology (2020), Volume: 22, Issue: 11 - ISSN 1462-2912 - p. 4620-4632. -
Zoeken naar een kleine kever. Hoe inspecteer je bijenvolken op de aanwezigheid van kleine bijenkastkevers?
Bijenhouden (2019), Volume: 13, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1877-9786 - p. 32-33. -
Spirosoma utsteinense sp. nov. isolated from Antarctic ice-free soils from the Utsteinen region, East Antarctica
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2019), Volume: 71, Issue: 3 - ISSN 1466-5026 -
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Steady Wintertime Antarctic Boundary Layer
Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2019), Volume: 173, Issue: 2 - ISSN 0006-8314 - p. 165-192. -
Correction to: Growth and LC-PUFA production of the cold-adapted microalga Koliella antarctica in photobioreactors
Journal of Applied Phycology (2019), Volume: 31, Issue: 2 - ISSN 0921-8971 - p. 999-999. -
The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing II
In: The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing II - Springer - ISBN: 9783030258641 - p. 1-4. -
Global warming promotes biological invasion of a honey bee pest
Global Change Biology (2019), Volume: 25, Issue: 11 - ISSN 1354-1013 - p. 3642-3655. -
Enzymatic synthesis and characterization of novel terpolymers from renewable sources
Pure and Applied Chemistry (2019), Volume: 91, Issue: 3 - ISSN 0033-4545 -
How fertile are earthworm casts? A meta-analysis
Geoderma (2019), Volume: 338 - ISSN 0016-7061 - p. 525-535. -
Growth and LC-PUFA production of the cold-adapted microalga Koliella antarctica in photobioreactors
Journal of Applied Phycology (2019), Volume: 31, Issue: 2 - ISSN 0921-8971 - p. 981-997.