http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/03/06/invasion-of-antarctica/ Advancing ecology and making it count Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/03/06/invasion-of-antarctica/#comment-5754 Ecology and Policy Blog » Blog Archive » Overseas Biodiversity Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:50:56 +0000 http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=2599#comment-5754 [...] Peter Convey, of the British Antarctic Survey, was the next to highlight the unique ecosystems of the UK’s overseas territories, specifically those of the two southern polar regions, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and the British Antarctic Territory. Both territories have a high level of marine biodiversity, comparable with many temperate and even tropical areas. And although the terrestrial diversity is low there are high levels of endemism creating an overall unique ecosystem. Mr Convey went on to stress that although human impacts on these ecosystems are low at present, there is a high level of vulnerability, in particular to biological invasions, such as has been highlighted previously on this blog. [...]

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