Jasmine R. Lee

TL;DR: This work quantifies the impact of twenty-first century climate change on ice-free areas under two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate forcing scenarios using temperature-index melt modelling and hypothesizes that they could eventually lead to increasing regional-scale biotic homogenization, the extinction of less-competitive species and the spread of invasive species.

TL;DR: A global dataset from 916 seawater samples collected in six ocean basins is compiled, showing that although synthetic polymers currently account for two-thirds of global fiber production, oceanic fibers are mainly composed of natural polymers.

TL;DR: Global conservation policy must stop the disappearance of Earth’s few intact ecosystems, warn James E. M. Watson, James R. Allan and colleagues.

TL;DR: A baseline estimate of the abundance of floating plastics around the Southern Ocean is presented from a survey of floating macro-, meso- and microplastic pollution conducted during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition in 2016/17, confirming the SouthernOcean as the region with the lowest concentrations of plastic pollution globally.

TL;DR: The Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions (ACBRs) as mentioned in this paper were originally proposed in 2012 as an important tool in Antarctic science, conservation, management and policy, and have been widely used in a variety of research fields.