An area without ice is covered in the biodiversity database in Antarctica.

Geographic coverage: Total number of biological records from an Antarctic database without ice in Antarctica without ice. Credit: Diversity and distribution (2024). Doi: 10.1111/DDI.13909
Australian Antarctica scientists released the most comprehensive databases of species living in Antarctica -free areas after 16 years of research.
More than 200 years ago, more than 35,600 records are integrated into one central location. The records include 1,890 species and identity, including moss, local fabrics, fungi, invertebrate animals, microorganisms, birds, and seals.
Dr. Alex Tide, the leader of the Australian Antarctica program, said that “biodiversity in an Antarctic database without ice” supported future areas and global research on ecology, diversity, and changes. It depends greatly on this database record.
“The species represented by this database occurs over all 16” Antarctic conservation biological areas “. This is a clear area featuring different climate, landscape, and species, “said Dr. Telose.
“By understanding the positions and diversity of the seeds of these biorigyeong and the whole Antarctica, it generally understands ecological structures and functions and reduces the impact of environmental changes in biodiversity. You can design good research.
“This new Antarctic database can be integrated into research on biodiversity in the world and supports necessary conservation measures under the protocol on environmental protection of the Antarctic Treaty.”
Dr. TERAUDS said in 2008 that the database began with the first basic dataset set by the Antarctic Diversity Database.
Since then, the research team has been scrutinizing other databases, pasture, field search notes, scientific literature, high -quality checks, and the quality check and verification of additional records.
The records were collected between the early 1800s and 2019, and most records were collected after 1950.
More than 15 % of the records are penguins and seabirds flying, and most (exceeding 15,000) were collected from the northwest west west, followed by almost 5,000 from the East Antarctica.
Almost 78 % of the records were collected within 1 km from the continent coast.
Dr. Telose stated that an area without ice accounted for about 0.4 % of the Antarctica, including coastal Oaze, cliffs, nunataks (peaks or ridges that penetrate ice) and screens (loose stones).
“The attractive features for animals, plants, and other creatures that breed in Antarctica in these small islands in ice are also attractive for humans and potential invasive species. Ta.
“So it’s really important to understand what is there and use that information to promote scientific understanding, conservation, and bioscality.”
This study was released ecology on January 27. Companion paper, which evaluates the potential use of the database, has recently been released in diversity and distribution.
Details: ALEKS TERAUDS ET AL, THE ICE -FREE ANTARCTICA Database Biodiversity, Ecology (2025). Doi: 10.1002/Ecy.70000
Charlotte R. Patterson et al, an Antarctic land biological data, diversity and distribution multi -dimensional evaluation (2024). Doi: 10.1111/DDI.13909
Provided by the Australian Antarctic category
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