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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202220210595
Abstract: The majority of ornithogenic soils studied in Antarctica focus on the influence of penguins, wherever little reports evaluated the influence of flying birds on soil genesis. This study aimed to characterize the morphologic, chemic, physic, mineralogic, and micromorphologic ornithogenic soil pockets influenced by flying birds in Snow Island, Maritime Antarctica. Fifteen soil pockets were selected, described, s led and analyzed, these sites constitute the main areas with intense long-term terrestrial biological activity in Snow Island. In order to investigate the impact of phosphatization, we compared the soil pockets with the surrounding soils and soils affected by penguins. Zone of phosphatization have a high concentration of P, K, and Ca. The XRD patterns for the clay fraction of ornithogenic soils show that phosphate minerals are the main crystalline phases (leucophosphite, minyulite, fluorapatite, and apatite). We show that even under typical periglacial conditions, sites influenced by flying birds present active chemical weathering processes. The phosphatization release exchangeable bases and accelerate mineralogical and micromorphological transformations in soils. Under the current global warming trend and expected sea-level rise, the ornithogenic environments are susceptible to accelerated erosion rates and a great part of these hotspots may be lost for the open sea.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 06-2010
DOI: 10.1590/S0370-44672010000200006
Abstract: No Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo, a deposição de excrementos da avifauna foi responsável pela fosfatização de suas rochas. Como feição mais característica, formaram-se crostas fosfáticas. Com base em metodologias pertinentes ao trabalho de c o (observação, descrição e coleta) e de laboratório (análises geoquímicas, mineralógicas e microscópicas), esse trabalho buscou caracterizar tais crostas e compreender suas implicações geomorfológicas e paleogeográficas. As crostas foram definidas como feições de acumulação de excrementos, ricos em fósforo, mineralizados sobre rochas homogêneas (peridotitos milonitizados). Depois de formadas, o comportamento hidrofóbico de tais crostas protegeu as rochas contra o avanço acelerado do perfil de alteração e da atuação de processos erosivos, tornando as encostas em que são encontradas mais íngremes e convexizadas. Ao contrário, onde a formação da crosta não foi verificada, as encostas encontram-se concavizadas e a rocha mais profundamente alterada. A presença de tais crostas também indica a existência de ambientes áridos pretéritos, diferentes das condições climáticas atuais, onde foi possível a acumulação do guano sobre a superfície.
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 10-2009
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-06832009000500028
Abstract: As ilhas oceânicas, como ambientes sui generis no planeta, têm despertado, cada vez mais, o interesse da comunidade científica em virtude de sua importância ambiental. Este trabalho teve por objetivo estudar os principais solos de ocorrência da Ilha da Trindade, enfatizando suas características químicas e físicas nos diferentes estratos ambientais de ocorrência. Buscou-se melhor entendimento das relações pedogeomorfológicas, permitindo um esboço preliminar da identificação dos solos ao longo da expressiva variação topográfica reinante na área de estudo. Ao longo de uma topossequência, foram coletados 10 perfis representativos dos diferentes pedoambientes, resultantes de variações litológicas, topográficas e de cobertura vegetal, muitas das quais covariantes. Foram realizadas análises físicas e químicas de todos os horizontes dos perfis coletados. A ersidade de solos na Ilha da Trindade pode ser relacionada com as variações do material de origem e da posição topográfica. De maneira geral, os solos apresentam peculiaridades que os tornam "endêmicos". A maioria possui alta fertilidade natural, grau de intemperismo pouco acentuado e valores muito elevados de P e Ca que parecem relacionados com atividade da avifauna. Na face sul da ilha, mais fria e úmida, vales estreitos e encostas íngremes abrigam vegetação mais exuberante de samambaias gigantes, com acúmulo em ambiente escarpado, de matéria orgânica fíbrica mesmo em declives acentuados, formando Organossolos em ambientes atípicos. Os solos de locais com altitude superior a 400 m são mais ácidos e pobres em nutrientes, mas com teor de P muito elevado em função de aportes da avifauna. Na face norte da ilha, em cotas mais baixas, predominam condições semiáridas ou tropicais secas, e os solos são mais rasos, ricos em nutrientes e muito mais erodidos, com predomínio de Neossolos Litólicos e Regolíticos. Há ersas particularidades nos solos da Ilha da Trindade que os tornam difíceis de enquadramento no Sistema Brasileiro de Classificação de Solos, carecendo de adaptações em ersos níveis categóricos.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-02-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-07-2023
DOI: 10.1111/AEC.13394
Abstract: Changes in vegetation cover due to increasing frequencies of extreme climate events and anthropogenic pressure are already underway so, predicting the impacts of the near‐future climate will be essential for developing mitigation strategies. We modelled the responses of Brazilian biomes to a future scenario (2070) of steady increases in atmospheric CO levels, adding soil data to better represent the multidimensional space of the environmental suitability of each biome. We also assessed the effects of changes in environmental suitability on the Brazilian network of protected areas and projected those effects on 1 km resolution maps. The area predicted to be affected by future climate change in Brazil and the consequent loss of suitable habitat surface is 2.59 Mkm 2 – larger than the combined areas of Central America and Mexico – leading the current vegetation to a progressive replacement. We project major changes in the vegetation of the Amazon basin, with the replacement of rainforest by dryer vegetation in the southern and eastern regions of that basin, and the opening of a dry corridor in Pará State. We also project an expansion of 41% of the current caatinga cover in the Brazilian semiarid region, with large losses of suitable habitat surface of the current deciduous forest. Approximately, 37% of the coverage of protected areas in Brazil will be affected – with greater damage to indigenous lands. The speed of current environmental change is now unprecedented for the post‐glacial era, and will almost certainly lead to increased rates of extinction and the collapse of transition ecosystems. We propose the urgent creation of protected areas in regions designed without significant impacts, but contiguous to those that will be more seriously affected by climate change. Those areas will act as refugia preserving bio ersity, ecosystem services, and the cultural heritages of traditional populations.
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202120210625
Abstract: Sulfurization is a pedogenic process that involves pyrite oxidation and strong soil acidification, accounting for the formation of acid sulfate soils. In Antarctica, acid sulfate soils are related to specific parent materials, such as sulfide-bearing andesites in Maritime Antarctica and pyritized sedimentary rocks in James Ross Archipelago. The hypothesis is that the acid sulfate soils of these regions vary according with a climate gradient. The reviewing of current data showed that the acid sulfate soils of warmer and wetter Maritime Antarctica have a greater weathering degree, higher acidity, leaching, phosphorus adsorption capacity, structural development, and well-crystallized iron oxides and kaolinite formation. On the other hand, the sulfurization at the drier region of James Ross Archipelago is counterbalanced by the semiaridity, resulting in lower acidity and higher base contents combined with little morphological and mineralogical evolution besides presence of weatherable minerals in the clay fraction. The sulfurization process interplays with other pedogenic processes, such as the phosphatization in Maritime Antarctica and salinization in James Ross Archipelago. Higher temperatures and soil moisture enhance the pedogenesis, showing that even the Antarctic sulfate soils, which originated from specific parent materials, have their development and characteristics controlled by a clear climatic gradient.
Publisher: Revista Brasileira de Ciencia do Solo
Date: 2020
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202220201141
Abstract: This study characterized the physical, chemical, macro- and micromorphological soil properties from three successive marine terrace levels from Harmony Point (Nelson Island, Maritime Antarctica) in order to understand the pedological signatures of Quaternary coastal landscape evolution of Maritime Antarctica. Soils were s led on the Late Holocene beach (current beach) and Mid Holocene marine terraces higher up, at 3, 8, and 12 m a.s.l. At the lower levels, the predominant soils were Gelorthents, whereas Haplogelepts dominate the higher terraces. Soil properties are mostly influenced by parent material and faunal activity, in which cryoclastic (thermal weathering) and phosphatization are the main soil-forming processes. Soils from the upper levels are more developed, deeper with reddish colors, granular structures and incipient formation B horizon. These horizonation features highlight that soils vary according with age of glacier-isostatic terrace uplift, representing a Quaternary soil chronosequence. All marine terrace levels are Ornithogenic soils, at varying degrees. However, the presence of old bird nesting sites for long periods led to formation of phosphatic horizons, stable Fe-phosphate minerals and abundant vegetation in the highest terraces of this part of Maritime Antarctica.
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-12-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-05-2023
DOI: 10.1111/AEC.13369
Abstract: Changes in vegetation cover due to increasing frequencies of extreme climate events and anthropogenic pressure are already underway so, predicting the impacts of the near‐future climate will be essential for developing mitigation strategies. We modelled the responses of Brazilian biomes to a future scenario (2070) of steady increases in atmospheric CO 2 levels, adding soil data to better represent the multidimensional space of the environmental suitability of each biome. We also assessed the effects of changes in environmental suitability on the Brazilian network of protected areas and projected those effects on 1 km resolution maps. The area predicted to be affected by future climate change in Brazil and the consequent loss of suitable habitat surface is 2.59 Mkm 2 – larger than the combined areas of Central America and Mexico – leading the current vegetation to a progressive replacement. We project major changes in the vegetation of the Amazon basin, with the replacement of rainforest by dryer vegetation in the southern and eastern regions of that basin, and the opening of a dry corridor in Pará State. We also project an expansion of 41% of the current caatinga cover in the Brazilian semiarid region, with large losses of suitable habitat surface of the current deciduous forest. Approximately, 37% of the coverage of protected areas in Brazil will be affected – with greater damage to indigenous lands. The speed of current environmental change is now unprecedented for the post‐glacial era, and will almost certainly lead to increased rates of extinction and the collapse of transition ecosystems. We propose the urgent creation of protected areas in regions designed without significant impacts, but contiguous to those that will be more seriously affected by climate change. Those areas will act as refugia preserving bio ersity, ecosystem services, and the cultural heritages of traditional populations.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-04-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-06-2017
DOI: 10.1007/S00792-017-0947-X
Abstract: We assessed the ersity of culturable fungi associated with rocks of continental Antarctica to evaluate their physiological opportunistic virulence potential in vitro. The seventy fungal isolates obtained were identified as nine species of Acremonium, Byssochlamys, Cladosporium, Debaryomyces, Penicillium, and Rhodotorula. Acremonium sp., D. hansenii, P. chrysogenum, P. citrinum, P. tardochrysogenum, and R. mucilaginosa were able to grow at 37 °C in addition, B. spectabilis displayed a high level of growth at 37 and 45 °C. Thirty-one isolates of P. chrysogenum, P. citrinum, and P. tardochrysogenum were able to produce partial haemolysis on blood agar at 37 °C. Acremonium sp., P. citrinum, and P. tardochrysogenum showed spore sizes ranging from 2.81 to 5.13 µm diameters at 37 °C. Of these, P. chrysogenum and P. tardochrysogenum displayed macro- and micro morphological polymorphism. Our results suggest that rocks of the ultra-extreme cold and dry environment of Antarctica harbour cryptic fungi phylogenetically close to opportunistic pathogenic and mycotoxigenic taxa with physiologic virulence characteristics in vitro.
Publisher: Revista Brasileira de Geomorfologia
Date: 02-09-2023
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