El enfriamiento del clima antártico y la respuesta del ecosistema terrestre.

Peter T Doran1, John C Priscu, W Berry Lyons

  • 1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA. pdoran@uic.edu

Nature
|January 17, 2002
PubMed
Resumen

Las temperaturas superficiales de la Antártida muestran una sorprendente tendencia de enfriamiento neto, lo que contradice las predicciones de calentamiento global. Este enfriamiento tiene un impacto significativo en los ecosistemas terrestres, disminuyendo la productividad de los lagos y las poblaciones de invertebrados del suelo.

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