| Summary: | Progress Code: completed Statement: The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report: Variations to work plan or objectives: Logistic constraints limited field time, necessitating major changes in the field. Transfer of the herbarium ADT to HO required considerable time input. Field work: 4 weeks of field work were planned for the McMurdo Dry Valleys region. Two weeks were lost due to adverse weather (heavy snow falls) and helicopter schedule rearrangements due to a medical evacuation from the field. Ground based studies were carried out at Granite Harbour (with abandonment of work proposed for inland mountains) and in the Darwin Glacier region (where adverse weather and a biotically poor area limited field time to 3 days. Collections of plants made are currently being identified and will provide comparative biodiversity indices for other multi-disciplinary whole ecosystem studies currently being undertaken in the southern Dry Valleys region. A molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic revision of Lecidea s.l., lichens is being undertaken by an Austrian PhD student and should be completed late 2009. Laboratory activity/analysis: Morphological examination of specimens from AAT and Ross Sea Sector is ongoing. As material is fully identified the data is prepared as herbarium packets and incorporated into the Herbarium (ADT - being transferred to the Tasmanian Herbarium HO) and to the AAD Data Centre. This record relates to the Australian component of the Latitudinal Gradient Project. The LGP is largely a New Zealand, US and Italian venture, but a small contribution has been made by Australian scientists. The Australian component of this work was completed as part of ASAC projects 2361 and 2682 (ASAC_2361, and ASAC_2682). Data from this project were entered into the herbarium access database, which has been linked to this record. The list below contains details of where and when samples were collected, and also the type of sample and the method of ...
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