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Environmental Assessment of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica

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Monitoring has been developed by Antarctic Programmes such as Antarctic New Zealand (www.antarcticanz.govt.nz) and the US Antarctic Programme (USAP) (http://www.usap.gov) considering expansion of human activities and inevitable environmental.

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Acknowledgments

Financial support was obtained from the Antarctic Brazilian Program (PROANTAR) by a grant from the Ministry of Environment (MMA) and National Research Council (CNPq) with logistical support from the Secretariat of the Interministerial Commission for Sea Resources (SECIRM). Studies were within the Brazilian Antarctic Environment Research Network (CNPq processes: 550345/02-7, 550347/02-0, 550348/02-6, 550349/02-2, 550350/02-0, 550351/02-7, 550354/02-6, 550356/02-9, 550357/02-5, 550359/02-8, 550365/02-8, 550368/02-7, 550371/02-8, 550373/02-0). This work is in the frame of IPY and the Brazilian National Science and Technology Institute on Antarctic Environmental Research (INCT-APA).

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    Rosalinda C. Montone, Márcia C. Bícego, Elisabete S. Braga, Belmiro M. Castro, Thaïs N. Corbisier, Vicente Gomes, Rosane G. Ito, Michel M. Mahiques, César C. Martins, Phan V. Ngan, Vivian H. Pellizari, Monica A. V. Petti & Rolf R. Weber

  2. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Av Fernando Ferrari 514, VitóriaES, Espírito Santo, 29073-910, Brazil

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  4. Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av Carlos Chagas Filho 373, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-902, Brazil

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Montone, R.C. et al. (2013). Environmental Assessment of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica. 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_9

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