Documents

EBA Annual Report 2008

Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic: the Response of Life to Change (EBA)
Implementation Plan

Proposed Scientific Research Programme, 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2013

Summary

The structure of this programme will be based around a series of five major unifying key questions that are addressed across the realms of terrestrial, limnetic and marine environments. These will form the Work Packages of the programme which will operate along the lines of a matrix of the key questions vs selected environments.

Scope:

• To understand the evolution and diversity of life in the Antarctic.
• To determine how these have influenced the properties and dynamics of present Antarctic ecosystems and the Southern Ocean system.
• To make predictions on how organisms and communities are responding and will respond to current and future environmental change.

Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic: The Response of Life to Change (EBA)

Review of SRP EBA’s performance, March 2008

Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic: the response of life to change (EBA)
Science Plan

Proposed Scientific Research Programme, 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2013

Summary

This Scientific Research Programme (SRP) entitled Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA): the response of life to change. EBA will use a suite of modern techniques and an interdisciplinary approach to explore the evolutionary history of selected modern Antarctic biota, examine how modern biological diversity in the Antarctic influences the way present-day ecosystems function, and thereby predict how the biota may respond to future environmental change. For the first time the scientific community will integrate understanding across the major realms of Antarctic biology (marine, terrestrial, freshwater, from molecules to ecosystems) into the cohesive picture that is a prerequisite of Earth System Science. EBA will advance evolutionary and ecological science using model systems and organisms from the Antarctic, facilitating interdisciplinary investigations of systems responses to change.