RESPONSE OF ALGAL AND CYANOBACTERIAL COMMUNITIES FROM ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC WETLAND HABITATS TO FREEZING AND DESICCATION STRESS

• Main Authors: Xxx Międzynarodowe, Sympozjum Polarne, Marie Šabacká, Josef Elster
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; Austral; British Antarctic Territory; Davey; Antarc*; permafrost
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.551.4174; http://ocean.am.gdynia.pl/sem/30msp/Mk-69.pdf

Polar hydro-terrestrial habitats represent a unique mosaic of unstable extreme environments characterised by presence of liquid water from melting permafrost, snowfields and glaciers during very short summer (Elster 2002). Filamentous cyanobacteria are often dominant in these habitats and are respon...