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Nature 446, 9 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446009a; Published online 28 February 2007
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Letting the light in on Antarctic ecosystems
Lucy Odling-Smee
In just over a decade, two major ice shelves have collapsed on the eastern side of the Antarctic peninsula, uncovering a part of the sea floor that had not seen sunlight for several thousand years. A ten-week expedition that ended in late January has shed light on the biology of these waters, and has recovered samples of some 1,000 species from the region, several of which may be new to science.
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