Shulamit Gordon

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesized current knowledge on environmental variability across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine Antarctic biomes and related this to the observed biotic patterns, showing that the most important physical driver of Antarctic terrestrial communities is the availability of liquid water, itself driven by solar irradiance intensity.

TL;DR: Assessment of recent annual variation and trends in abundance and growth rates of Adélie penguin colonies of the southern Ross Sea indicates that Colony growth rates showed striking synchrony through time, indicating that large-scale factors influenced their annual growth.

TL;DR: The Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP) as discussed by the authors uses a series of smaller studies under a single broad hypothesis to provide information that uses a gradient in latitude as a surrogate for environmental gradients, particularly climate.

TL;DR: The Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP) has been used for over a decade in New Zealand's Ross Sea Sector as discussed by the authors, where the LGP has been structured around a hypothesis that, in a frigid continent, ice dynamics is the key ecosystem variable.

TL;DR: The Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP) as mentioned in this paper has been a means by which relatively small research programmes, ranging from marine ecology to glacial history, with workers scattered across the globe, have all contributed to exploring the changes along a latitudinal gradient as a proxy for climate change.