Growth rate of Antarctic mosses derived from bomb radiocarbon.

• Main Authors: Fink, D, Hua, Q, Clarke, LJ, Robinson, SA
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Antarctica; Mosses; Bombs; Growth; Isotope Dating; Mass Spectroscopy; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Vestfold Hills; Vestfold; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; Schistidium antarctici
• Online Access: http://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/2825

At the previous Radiocarbon Conference in Oxford, 2006, we reported our preliminary results on the use of bomb radiocarbon for the determination of growth rates of two moss species collected from east Antarctica in January 2005. Here, we present an update of this study for four different moss specie...