Dossier
Antarctica
The work of researchers on Antarctica has a wide variety of subjects, from polar sea to sea ice and from krill to whales. In this dossier you can find news, backgrounds and results of research of Wageningen University & Research in the Antarctic region. Also, follow expeditions to Antarctica in our researchers' blogs.
In this dossier, you can find research conducted by Wageningen University & Research in relation to its Statutory Research Task (WOT) in Antarctic Research for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. This task follows from the Netherlands' consultative membership in the Antarctic Treaty, the international agreement for shared government of the Antarctic continent and Southern Oceans. Additional support is obtained from the Netherlands Polar Program of the Netherlands Science Foundation and from foreign host countries that kindly support logistics in our cooperative projects.
The work in the Antarctic has a wide variety of subjects, but has a shared focus on the important role of sea ice in sustaining the rich polar food webs. That focus leads to occasional participation in comparative research expeditions in Arctic areas. When possible, the dossier provides blogs from expeditioners in the field.
Expedition blogs
Publications
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Exploring Polar Hydrocommons : A speculative counter-cartography of the poles
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Biogeography and uniqueness of filamentous terrestrial fungi in the polar regions
Fungal Biology Reviews (2024), Volume: 49 - ISSN 1749-4613 -
Short-term impacts of polyethylene and polyacrylonitrile microplastics on soil physicochemical properties and microbial activity of a marine terrace environment in maritime Antarctica
Environmental Pollution (2024), Volume: 347 - ISSN 0269-7491 -
Enzymatic Synthesis of Copolyesters with the Heteroaromatic Diol 3,4-Bis(hydroxymethyl)furan and Isomeric Dimethyl Furandicarboxylate Substitutions
Biomacromolecules (2024), Volume: 25, Issue: 5 - ISSN 1525-7797 - p. 2792-2802. -
Contrasting mechanisms of non-vascular and vascular plants on spatial turnover in multifunctionality in the Antarctic continent
Journal of Ecology (2024), Volume: 112, Issue: 7 - ISSN 0022-0477 - p. 1624-1637. -
Where the White Continent Is Blue : Deep Learning Locates Bare Ice in Antarctica
Geophysical Research Letters (2024), Volume: 51, Issue: 3 - ISSN 0094-8276 -
Towards a Non-Use Regime on Solar Geoengineering: Lessons from International Law and Governance
Transnational Environmental Law (2024), Volume: 13, Issue: 2 - ISSN 2047-1025 - p. 368-399. -
Toward Antarctification? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica
Polar Geography (2024), Volume: 47, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1088-937X - p. 49-70. -
Unraveling The Impact of Isomerism on Enzymatic Polymerization of Furanic Polyesters
Advanced Sustainable Systems (2024), Volume: 8, Issue: 5 - ISSN 2366-7486 -
Consuming placelessness: a geographic critique of current Antarctic tourism development
Tourism Geographies (2024) - ISSN 1461-6688