Precautionary spatial protection to facilitate the scientific study of habitats and communities under ice shelves in the context of recent, rapid, regional climate change
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...Climate change is known to be regional and can occur rapidly (Vaughan et al., 2003); consequently, investigating how different parts of the Antarctic will respond has to be carried out over a variety of spatial scales....
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...Therefore, the regional nature of climate change (Vaughan et al., 2003) coupled with the high levels of endemism (Brandt, 2012) mean that community processes will vary across a range of sites....
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...In the face of climate change, long-term reference areas could also potentially increase ecosystem robustness (Brand and Jax, 2007; Gallopín, 2006), particularly where other stressors, including science, tourism and harvesting, are absent....
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