Metadata details
ASAC_1015
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- Citation
- Bergstrom, D. (2000) Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems [RiSCC]: the periantarctic region, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/ASAC_1015, Accessed: 2026-05-06
- Title
- Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems [RiSCC]: the periantarctic region
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- Created Date
- 2000-11-10
- Revision Date
- 2017-04-26
- Parent record
- None
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
This project is looking at how subantarctic plants and ecosystems will respond to climate change. Global warming is already causing changes in terrestrial ecosystems, and the effects on terrestrial life are most likely to be greatest around regional boundaries like the Antarctic Polar Front, where the subantarctic islands are located.
Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems (RiSCC) is an international research program on Antarctic and Peri-Antarctic terrestrial and limnetic (lake - and pond -) organisms and ecosystems. It is sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), a committee of the International Council of Science (ICSU).
NOTE - the RiSCC project has now been replaced by the SCAR Life Sciences programme Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA) for 2006-2013.
Quality
Values provided in temporal coverage are approximate only.
Access
For access to the data, see other metadata records in this group, and go to the biodiversity database (url below).
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1995-09-30 - Stop date: 2008-06-30
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > EXOTIC VEGETATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > INDIGENOUS VEGETATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > EXOTIC SPECIES
Additional Keywords
- ANTARCTICA
- PERI-ANTARCTIC
- RISCC
- SUBANTARCTIC
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > ILES KERGUELEN
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MARION ISLAND
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Platforms
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
- FIELD SURVEYS
Instruments
- None
Researchers
- bergstrom, dana (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR,INVESTIGATOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_1015 when using these data.
