Hot moments in the Antarctic due to climate warming?

• Main Authors: Sauheitl, L., Becher, T., Buegger, F., Godoy, R., Boy, D., Shibistova, O., Boy, J., Guggenberger, G.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: German
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; King George Island; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.dbges.de/1755/; https://eprints.dbges.de/1755/1/abstracts_DBG2017_463.pdf

Climate warming is severely affecting maritime Antarctica, causing accelerated glacier retreat and thus leading to an ongoing exposure of once ice- covered land. This initiates a succession of plant and soil development. Nevertheless, the temporal dynamics and controlling factors of these processes,...