Antarctica’s ecological isolation will be broken by storm-driven dispersal and warming
Antarctica’s ecological isolation will be broken by storm-driven dispersal and warming, Published online: 16 July 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0209-7
Genomic tools and ocean circulation models show that organisms surface-drift across the Southern Ocean frequently. The extreme cold therefore keeps Antarctica biologically isolated, but as the climate warms new species may establish quickly.
