商品簡介
Now packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated fourth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, full accounts of interesting places, spectacular landscapes, and local plants and wildlife—from penguins and other seabirds to whales, seals, and myriad mammals. A definitive field guide to Antarctica, this book caters to South Pole visitors traveling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat. Written by experienced Antarctic scientists and travel guides who are recognized experts in the continent's wildlife, conservation, and political history, every page offers gorgeous color photographs of the great white south. This new edition pays special attention to explaining the threats to Antarctic conservation, including from climate change, global warming, and plastics pollution, and includes tips on how visitors can minimize their own impact and help preserve this unique continent.
作者簡介
Peter Carey is a zoologist who has worked in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean since 1983, including on research expeditions as a scientist with the New Zealand Antarctic Programme and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition. His work has included studies of penguin behaviour, sea-bird ecology, fish physiology, and the social behaviour of seals. Peter has also worked as an expedition leader and lecturer on Antarctic cruise ships. He continues to visit Antarctica each summer and is working to ecologically restore a group of small islands in the Falklands archipelago. As the director of the SubAntarctic Foundation for Ecosystems Research (www.subantarctic.com), a non-profit conservation organisation, he is actively involved in improving the wildlife habitat of these islands. Craig Franklin is a professor in zoology in the School of Biological Sciences , The University of Queensland, Australia. He has made more than 30 trips to Antarctica, including ten research expeditions as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme. He has published over 260 scientific works, including papers in journals Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change. His research focuses on how animals such as fish, frogs and crocodiles can survive and function in extreme and hostile environments. Internationally he is recognised as a leading proponent of the emerging field of conservation physiology, and several of his research projects assess the impact of human-induced environmental change on animals. His Antarctic research has looked at the impact of temperature increases on the physiology and survival of fish. He is a strong advocate of wildlife conservation and spends his annual holidays lecturing on cruise boats about the Antarctic ecosystem and its spectacular wildlife.