Trends in Antarctic ecological research in Latin America shown by publications in international journals

Abstract

Antarctica is a highly interesting region for ecologists because of its extreme climatic conditions and the uniqueness of its species. In this article, we describe the trends in Antarctic ecological research participation by Latin American countries. In a survey of articles indexed by the ISI Web of Science, we searched under the categories “Ecology,” “Biodiversity Conservation” and “Evolutionary Biology” and found a total of 254 research articles published by Latin American countries. We classified these articles according to the country of affiliation, kingdom of the study species, level of biological organization and environment. Our main finding is that there is a steady increase in the relative contribution of Latin American countries to Antarctic ecological research. Within each category, we found that marine studies are more common than terrestrial studies. Between the different kingdoms, most studies focus on animals and most studies use a community approach. The leading countries in terms of productivity were Argentina, Chile and Brazil, with Argentina showing the highest rate of increase

Bibliometric Analysis of Collaboration Network and the Role of Research Station in Antarctic Science

“…The leading countries in RAPAL are Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. This corresponds to the research which reveals trends in Antarctic ecological research in Latin America (Stotz et al, 2013). Although AFoPS countries reach a certain standard in Antarctic science research, AFoPS shows a lack of international collaboration in Antarctic science.…”

“…Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay are Consultative Parties. Research trends within Antarctic islands (Benayas et al, 2013;Tejedo et al, 2015) and Latin America (Stefenon et al, 2013;Stotz et al, 2013); and the fields of study (Persson and Dastidar, 2013;Hua et al, 2014) were also the subjects of interest.…”

Antarctic science in Chile: a bibliometric analysis of scientific productivity during the 2009–2019 period

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Antarctic fungi with antibiotic potential isolated from Fort William Point, Antarctica

“…bacteria, archaea, and fungi) contributing to the most abundant biomass 5 , 6 . Among these, the Antarctic fungi are represented by endemic, native and cosmopolitan species, adapted to the cryosphere 7 – 10 .…”

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