Biological soil crusts in continental Antarctica: Garwood Valley, southern Victoria Land, and Diamond Hill, Darwin Mountains region

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Colesie, Claudia, Gommeaux, Maxime, Green, T.G. Allan, Büdel, Burkhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Victoria Land
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102013000291; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102013000291

Abstract Biological soil crusts are associations of lichens, mosses, algae, cyanobacteria, microfungi and bacteria in different proportions forming a thin veneer within the top centimetres of soil surfaces. They occur in all biomes, but particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, even in the most ex...