A NOTE ON THE TERRESTRIAL NEMATODES AROUND PALMER STATION. ANTARCTICA (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)

• Main Authors: Yukio Shishida, Yoshikuni Ohyama
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Palmer Station; soil around roots of Deschampsia antarctica; Biscoe Point; soil around roots of D. antarctica; Dream Island; moss mats with green algae; and; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Biscoe; Palmer-Station; Signy Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.623.1881; http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/polarbiosci/issues/pdf/1989-Shishida.pdf

The terrestrial nematodes from the Antarctic Peninsula region were reported first by the scientific results of the Belgica Expedition (DE MAN, 1904). Further informa-tion was not added from the region for more than fifty years thereafter. The faunistic and ecological surveys on the nematodes have, however, been carried out by the British scientists at Signy Island and the Peninsula region since the 1970's, and some forty species of the nematodes have been reported from these regions up to now (SPAULL