Successional patterns along soil development gradients formed by glacier retreat in the Maritime Antarctic, King George Island

• Main Authors: Boy, Jens, Godoy, Roberto, Shibistova, Olga, Boy, Diana, McCulloch, Robert, De La Fuente, Alberto Andrino, Morales, Mauricio Aguirre, Mikutta, Robert, Guggenberger, Georg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Santiago : Sociedad de Biologia de Chile 2016
• Subjects: Chronosequences; King George Island; Maritime Antarctica; Mycorrhiza; Ornithic; Soil organic carbon; Soil succession; Temporal gradients; Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften; Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie; Antarctic; Dewey; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15488/771; http://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/795

Background: Maritime Antarctica is severely affected by climate change and accelerating glacier retreat forming temporal gradients of soil development. Successional patterns of soil development and plant succession in the region are largely unknown, as are the feedback mechanisms between both proces...