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Conceptual diagram illustrating the variety of physical environmental factors forcing biological processes in the Southern Ocean, and emphasizing the central importance of sea ice to the western Antarctic Peninsula oceanic ecosystem. Only the key forcing factors are shown. Modified from Barange (2002).
