Plant and invertebrate ecology

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1967
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bryant; Candlemas Island; Greene; Neny; Neny Island; Rudolph; Siple; Skottsberg; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0014; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1967.0014

The pioneer studies of Skottsberg (1912), supported by the observations of Bertram (1938) and Bryant (1945), showed that a range of bryophyte and lichen communities are developed in many localities along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and on its offshore islands. In contrast, the terrestr...