Living on the edge – plants and global change in continental and maritime Antarctica

By Sharon A. Robinson, J. Wasley, A. Tobin. 2003

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Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems experience some of the most extreme growth conditions on Earth and are characterized by extreme aridity and subzero temperatures. Antarctic vegetation is therefore at the physiological limits of survival and, as a consequence, even slight changes to growth conditions are likely to have a large impact, rendering Antarctic terrestrial communities sensitive to climate change.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Peter Convey
2. A. Clarke
3. D. Wall
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Citations in the corpus

• An Automated Technique for Generating Georectified Mosaics from Ultra-High Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery, Based on Structure from Motion (SfM) Point Clouds (2012, background): “Despite this, there have been few long-term studies of the response of Antarctic vegetation to climate [29,30].”
• Microclimate impacts of passive warming methods in Antarctica: implications for climate change studies (2011, background): “Summer warming results in increased growth by Antarctic autotrophs (Robinson et al. 2003).”
• Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being (2017, unknown): “Rapid increase in moss growth rates, microbial productivity, and plant range expansion as ice melts ( 122 ).”
• The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity (2014, background): “Interspecific differences in the response of mosses to desiccation and UV radiation (Smith 1999, Robinson et al. 2003, Dunn and Robinson 2006, Turnbull and Robinson 2009, Wasley et al. 2012), determine both their spatial distribution on small scales, and their likely different future response to…”
• Plant Phenology And Distribution In Relation To Recent Climate Change (2008, background): “Robinson et al. (2003) note that these islands receive a steady supply of exotic Downloaded From: https://bioone.org/journals/The-Journal-of-the-Torrey-Botanical-Society on 30 Sep 2020 Terms of Use: https://bioone.org/terms-of-use spores, and a milder climate will allow more of these species to…”