A journey in Antarctica : exploring the future of the white continent
著者
書誌事項
A journey in Antarctica : exploring the future of the white continent
（Springer-Praxis books in popular science / subject advisory editor, Stephen Webb）
Springer, c2022
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Having always been fascinated by these singular landscapes, Sergio Rossi reconstructs some of the episodes that have marked the exploration of these territories, such as the dramatic race between Amundsen and Scott to conquer the South Pole, and Captain Shackleton's odyssey to save his crew from certain death. But also modern trips including his own to these remote areas, explaining many aspects of the current science and political competition that is underway.
The book leads us on an entertaining overview of all the problems and opportunities that the planet's most forgotten continent offers to humans. A remote mass of ice upon which our future as a species depends and which we cannot continue to ignore any longer.
目次
Table of Contents:
Foreword
1. The continent at end of the world
2. Brief history of an arduous discovery
3. Paleoclimate: the importance of Antarctica
4. Survival Lessons: Mars on Earth
5. Glaciers in perpetual motion: where they arise
the icebergs
6. The Antarctic sea ice
7. Microbes
8. Ice, algae, krill
9. Life in the dark background: explosion of diversity
under the ice
10. Birds at the end of the world
11. The great mammals of the white continent
12. Climate change: not so isolated
13. What happened in Larsen?
14. Organisms and climate change
15. The ozone layer and Antarctica
16. Contaminants in the spotless
17. The last resort
18. Remote fishing grounds
19. Ecotourism and invasive species
20. The Antarctic Treaty
21. Antarctic international bases
22. Live on an icebreaker oceanographic vessel
23. Visions of the last virgin stronghold
Epilogue
「Nielsen BookData」 より