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Underwater Light Environment of Antarctic Seaweeds

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Antarctic seaweeds are highly shade-adapted organisms, which can photosynthesize under very dim light. This remarkable characteristic allows them colonizing over 30 m depths and surviving extended dark periods during the polar winter. On the other hand, they are well equipped to cope with high light stress, which points to a trade-off between shade adaptation and efficient UV stress tolerance. Optical properties of water determine both the underwater light climate for photosynthesis and the risk of seaweeds for UV exposure in their habitats. Thus, understanding the natural (spatial, temporal) and anthropogenic-driven changes in spectral transparency of water and factors governing it is fundamental in evaluating the state of seaweeds under current and future environmental scenarios. In the present chapter the aspects related to the optical properties determining the underwater habitat of Antarctic seaweeds are summarized, along with the potential changes in water optics as a result of climate change, ozone depletion and other environmental and emerging threats, and their interactions.

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The funding provided by CONICYT (through Projects Anillo ART1101, FONDECYT 1161129 and FONDAP 15150003) and by Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH; Grant T-20-09) to carry out our research in the Antarctic is greatly acknowledged. We are also grateful to the members of our research group in Universidad Austral de Chile and the staff of the Instituto Antártico Chileno for their invaluable cooperation.

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Huovinen, P., Gómez, I. (2020). Underwater Light Environment of Antarctic Seaweeds. In: Gómez, I., Huovinen, P. (eds) Antarctic Seaweeds. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39448-6_7

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