Discussion on the preceding papers

P. D. Brown. In Spitzbergen Polytrichum alpestre and P. alpinum both fruit freely, but the climate is warmer there owing to the influence of the Gulf Stream. M. W. Holdgate. How much decomposition occurs in Antarctic bryophyte communities? We have heard average annual growth rates of 3 to 5 mm sugge...

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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:
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Business, Management and Accounting
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Business and International Management
Antarctic
Antarc*
Spitzbergen
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0023
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1967.0023
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Summary:P. D. Brown. In Spitzbergen Polytrichum alpestre and P. alpinum both fruit freely, but the climate is warmer there owing to the influence of the Gulf Stream. M. W. Holdgate. How much decomposition occurs in Antarctic bryophyte communities? We have heard average annual growth rates of 3 to 5 mm suggested, yet radiocarbon data suggest a mean accumulation of only about 1 mm per annum in peat banks which, admittedly, are compacted.

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