TY - CHAP AU - Yoshihiro Fujise AU - Luis A. Pastene ED - Masaki Kanao ED - Danilo Godone ED - Niccolò Dematteis Y1 - 2020-12-10 PY - 2020 T1 - Whales as Indicators of Historical and Current Changes in the Marine Ecosystem of the Indo-Pacific Sector of the Antarctic N2 - Glaciers and Polar regions provide important clues to understanding the past and present status of the Earth system, as well as to predict future forms of our planet. In particular, Antarctica, composed of an ice-covered continent in its center and the surrounding Sothern Ocean, has been gradually investigated during the last half century by all kinds of scientific branches; bioscience, physical sciences, geoscience, oceanography, environmental studies, together with technological components. This book covers topics on the recent development of all kinds of scientific research on glaciers and Antarctica, in the context of currently on-going processes in the extreme environment in polar regions. BT - Glaciers and the Polar Environment SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94323 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.94323 SN - 978-1-83962-593-0 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -