Diversity and distribution patterns in high southern latitude sponges. by Rachel V Downey, Huw J Griffiths, Katrin Linse, Dorte Janussen

“…Species-rich regions include the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands, South Georgia, Eastern Weddell Sea, Kerguelen Plateau, Falkland Islands and north New Zealand. Sampling intensity varied greatly within the study area, with sampling hotspots found at the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia, north New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego, with limited sampling in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas in the Southern Ocean. …”
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Settlement of Disputes concerning Insular Territories in the Framework of the International Court of Justice by K. V. Timokhin

“…Disputes concerning insular territories (rocks, isles, islands, etc.) are spread throughout the world: Spratly Islands, Hanish Islands, Falkland Islands.Some of the disputes have a long history and still cannot be settled due to different reasons: economic privileges such as access to mineral and biological resources; strategic advantages; and political calculations, such as national pride.Some of the advantages of insular territories are encompassed in the definition of an island which is included in both 1958 Convention on Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone and in 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.It is also important to look at the mode of acquisition of territories which can be divided into two categories: by peaceful means (discovery, effective occupation, cession) and by use of force. …”
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Determination of neo- and d-chiro-inositol hexakisphosphate in soils by solution 31P NMR spectroscopy by Turner, B, Cheesman, A, Godage, H, Riley, A, Potter, B

“…We synthesized authentic neo- and d-chiro-IP 6 and used them to identify signals from these compounds in three soils from the Falkland Islands. Both compounds resisted hypobromite oxidation and gave quantifiable 31P NMR signals at δ = 6.67 ppm (equatorial phosphate groups of the 4-equatorial/2-axial conformer of neo-IP6) and δ = 6.48 ppm (equatorial phosphate groups of the 2-equatorial/4-axial conformer of d-chiro-IP6) in soil extracts. …”

Antarctotrechus balli sp. n. (Carabidae, Trechini): the first ground beetle from Antarctica by Allan C. Ashworth, Terry L. Erwin

“…The closest extant relatives to the extinct A. balli are species of Trechisibus, which inhabit South America, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, and Tasmanorites, which inhabit Tasmania, Australia. …”
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Seasonal sexual segregation by monomorphic Sooty Shearwaters Puffinus griseus reflects different reproductive roles during the pre-laying period. by April Hedd, William A Montevecchi, Richard A Phillips, David A Fifield

“…Shearwaters first returned to the Falkland Islands on 27 Sept±8 d; males, on average, 8 d earlier than females. …”
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Probabilistic description of ice-supersaturated layers in low resolution profiles of relative humidity by N. C. Dickson, K. M. Gierens, H. L. Rogers, R. L. Jones

“…<br><br> This paper uses radiosonde launches made by the UK Meteorological Office, from the British Isles, Gibraltar, St. Helena and the Falkland Islands between January 2002 and December 2006, to investigate the probabilistic occurrence of ISSR. …”
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Gene flow and hybridization between numerically imbalanced populations of two duck species on the subantarctic island of South Georgia. by Kevin G McCracken, Robert E Wilson, Anthony R Martin

“…Combined with parallel findings of hybridization between these same 2 duck species in the Falkland Islands, where population ratios are reversed and pintails are outnumbered by speckled teal 1:10, our results provide further support for the desperation hypothesis, which predicts that scarcity in one population and abundance of another will often lead to hybridization. …”
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Genetic structure of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) populations on the Patagonian Shelf and Atlantic and western Indian Ocean Sectors of the Southern Ocean by Rogers, A, Morley, S, Fitzcharles, E, Jarvis, K, Belchier, M

“…Both haplotype frequency data (FST>0.906, P<0.01) and microsatellite genotype frequency data (FST=0.0141-0.0338, P<0.05) indicated that populations of toothfish from around the Falkland Islands were genetically distinct from those at South Georgia (eastern Atlantic Sector SO), around Bouvet Island (western Atlantic Sector SO) and the Ob Seamount (western Indian Ocean Sector of the SO). …”

Modern calibration of <i>Poa flabellata</i> (tussac grass) as a new paleoclimate proxy in the South Atlantic by D. V. Groff, D. V. Groff, D. G. Williams, J. L. Gill, J. L. Gill

“…The tussock grass, <i>Poa flabellata</i>, grows abundantly along the coasts of the Falkland Islands and other subantarctic islands. It forms extensive peat records, providing a promising opportunity to reconstruct high-resolution regional climate records. …”
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Cenozoic climatic changes drive evolution and dispersal of coastal benthic foraminifera in the Southern Ocean by Wojciech Majewski, Maria Holzmann, Andrew J. Gooday, Aneta Majda, Tomasz Mamos, Jan Pawlowski

“…Here, we tested these hypotheses by comparing the morphology and genetics of benthic foraminifera collected from Antarctica, sub-Antarctic coastal settings in South Georgia, the Falkland Islands and Patagonian fjords. We analyzed four genera (Cassidulina, Globocassidulina, Cassidulinoides, Ehrenbergina) of the family Cassidulinidae that are represented by at least nine species in our samples. …”
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OESbathy version 1.0: a method for reconstructing ocean bathymetry with generalized continental shelf-slope-rise structures by A. Goswami, P. L. Olson, L. A. Hinnov, A. Gnanadesikan

“…There is disagreement at margins with anomalous continental shelf-slope-rise structures, such as around the Arctic Ocean, the Falkland Islands, and Indonesia.…”
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Um gaúcho e dezoito condores nas Ilhas Malvinas: identidade política e nação sob o autoritarismo argentino by Rosana Guber

“…I therefore examine the "Condor Operation" of 1966, when seventeen young men and a young woman hijacked an Argentinian plane that was heading for the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands, in order to assert Argentina's sovereignty over the South Atlantic archipelago which had been under British occupation since 1833. …”
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Half a world apart? Overlap in nonbreeding distributions of Atlantic and Indian Ocean thin-billed prions. by Petra Quillfeldt, Yves Cherel, Juan F Masello, Karine Delord, Rona A R McGill, Robert W Furness, Yoshan Moodley, Henri Weimerskirch

“…For example, Thin-billed prions Pachyptila belcheri have two major breeding colonies more than 8,000 km apart, on the Falkland Islands in the south-western Atlantic and in the Kerguelen Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. …”
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Assessing the composition and timing of Late Quaternary volcanic eruptions in southern South America using tephra layers from lacustrine and peat sequences by Smith, R

“…</p> <p>Cryptotephra records from three Falkland Islands peat archives were also examined to better understand the dispersal of Andean volcanic deposits. …”

A Multi Criteria Assessment Method for Identifying Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the North-East Atlantic by Telmo Morato, Christopher K. Pham, Carlos Pinto, Neil Golding, Jeff A. Ardron, Pablo Durán Muñoz, Francis Neat

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A 250-year periodicity in Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the last 2600 years by C. S. M. Turney, R. T. Jones, C. Fogwill, J. Hatton, A. N. Williams, A. Hogg, Z. A. Thomas, J. Palmer, S. Mooney, R. W. Reimer

“…Here we present a highly resolved (30-year) record of past westerly wind strength from a Falkland Islands peat sequence spanning the last 2600 years. …”
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Differences between 1999 and 2010 across the Falkland Plateau: fronts and water masses by M. D. Pérez-Hernández, M. D. Pérez-Hernández, A. Hernández-Guerra, I. Comas-Rodríguez, V. M. Benítez-Barrios, E. Fraile-Nuez, J. L. Pelegrí, A. C. Naveira Garabato

“…In contrast, the SAF gets wider in 2010, stretching from 51.1 to 57.2° W (the Falkland Islands), and weakening to 17.9 Sv. Changes in the SAF can be linked with the westerly winds and mainly affect the northward flow of Subantarctic Surface Water (SASW), SAMW and AAIW/Antarctic Surface Water (AASW). …”
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Population genetic structure of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) in the Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic Ocean by Cristian B. Canales-Aguirre, Sandra Ferrada-Fuentes, Ricardo Galleguillos, Fernanda X. Oyarzun, Cristián E. Hernández

“…We hypothesized that this species would show zero or very limited genetic structuring due to the habitat continuity along the South American shelf from Peru in the Pacific Ocean to the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. We used Bayesian and traditional analyses to evaluate population genetic structure, and we estimated the number of putative migrants and effective population size. …”
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Insights from the management of offshore energy resources: Toward an ecosystem-services based management approach for deep-ocean industries by M. Emilia Bravo, Miriam I. Brandt, Jesse M. A. van der Grient, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Patricia Esquete, Sabine Gollner, Daniel O. B. Jones, Lisa A. Levin, Craig R. McClain, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, Tracey Sutton, Lissette Victorero, Erik E. Cordes

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Climatic Structure of the Dynamic and Temperature Fronts in the Scotia Sea and the Adjacent Water Areas by Yu.V. Artamonov, E.A. Skripaleva, N.V. Nikolsky

“…It shows that in the areas of the most pronounced bottom topography inhomogeneities (the northern boundary of the Falkland Plateau and the Tierra del Fuego shelf, the boundaries of the Falkland Islands shelf and the Birdwood Bank, the Shackleton Ridge and the South Shetland Islands shelf), the fronts do not change their latitudinal position during a year. …”
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