Lichen Colonization and Recolonization of Two Recently Deglaciated Zones in the Maritime Antarctic

• Published in: The Lichenologist
• Main Authors: Valladares, Fernando, Sancho, Leopoldo G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; Livingston Island; Robert Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-2829(95)80008-5; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0024282995800085?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0024282995800085?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0024282995000612

Abstract The stages of vegetation development close to two glacier fronts on two of the South Shetland Islands (Livingston and Robert) within the Maritime Antarctic were studied with special reference to saxicolous lichens. A lichenometric study of the crustose lichen Caloplaca sublobulata was carri...