Dry Valley Context Taylor Valley Environment Mean Annual Air Temp:-16 to-21 °C Mean Wind Speed: 2 to 4 m/s Mean Summer Air Temp: -5 °C Continuous Daylight Through Summer Streams: - Flow for 4 to 12 Weeks
Moss: only riparian vegetation • Permanently ice-covered lakes • Dependence on streams for recharge • Streams link glaciers and lakes • Streams are ecosystem hotspots Witherow, Rebecca. Lake Chad and the Seuss Glacier. McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.626.7442 http://spot.colorado.edu/~bielefel/resources/GerechtPresentation.pdf |