Vegetation recovery after the removal of a facility in Elephant Island, Maritime Antarctic

• Published in: Land Degradation & Development
• Main Authors: Putzke, Jair, Vieira, Frederico Costa Beber, Pereira, Antonio Batista
• Other Authors: Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Elephant Island; Stinker Point; Antarc*; Antarctica; Brazilian Antarctic Program
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3431; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ldr.3431; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ldr.3431

Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the speed of revegetation of Antarctic soil affected by 13 years of anthropogenic influence in the form of a refuge building at Stinker Point, Elephant Island, Antarctica. Fourteen years after the removal, in the 2011/2012 austral summer, a qualitative survey of...