Journal
POLAR SCIENCE
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 254-261Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.polar.2009.10.001
Keywords
Flowering plants; Colonization; Maritime Antarctic; Deglaciation
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- Department of Antarctic Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Ukrainian National Science Antarctic Center
- Natural Environment Research Council [bas0100025] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [bas0100025] Funding Source: UKRI
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We studied the development of the Antarctic herb tundra vegetation formation in relation to the history of deglaciation across a range of habitats near H. Arctowski Research Station (King George Island, South Shetland Islands). Across the three identified environmental zones (coastal, intermediate, periglacial), we quantified the total vegetation cover, cover of the two indigenous flowering plants and bryophytes, age structure and reproductive features of the two flowering plants, and species diversity of mosses and liverworts. Analysis of these data supported the recognition of the three environmental zones; however, there were few indications of systematic differences in biological features of the two higher plants across the three zones, generally supporting the view that these, and the grass Deschampsia antarctica in particular, are effective primary colonists of recently deglaciated ground in this region. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. and NIPR All rights reserved.
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