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Excess Oxygen in Polar Evolution: A Whole Organism Perspective

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The Antarctic is characterized by more stable living conditions than the Arctic. This is due to the partial isolation of the continent and of the surrounding oceans by the Antarctic circumpolar current.

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This work is a contribution to the “European Project on Ocean Acidification” (EPOCA) which received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement n° 211384. EPOCA is endorsed by the International Programmes IMBER, LOICZ and SOLAS. This project was also supported by the German program on ocean acidification (BIOACID) funded by the BMBF and by the PACES program of the AWI and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grants no. SA 1713/1–1 and 1–2.

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Pörtner, HO., Walther, K., Wittmann, A. (2013). Excess Oxygen in Polar Evolution: A Whole Organism Perspective. In: Verde, C., di Prisco, G. (eds) Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27349-0_5

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