Changes in Geothermal Vegetation at Myvatn, Iceland, and Comparisons to Other Geothermal Areas

• Published in: Acta Biologica Plantarum Agriensis
• Main Authors: Glime, Janice M., Iwatsuki, Zen, Bornhorst, Theodore J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Eszterházy University 2023
• Subjects: QH540 Ecology / ökológia; Krafla; New Zealand; Iceland
• Online Access: http://real.mtak.hu/185114/; http://real.mtak.hu/185114/1/ABPA_11_from4to45.pdf; https://doi.org/10.21406/abpa.2023.11.1.4

We sampled 207 plots from 15 transects at the Myvatn geothermal area in Iceland in 1985, one year after the September 1984 eruption of Krafla, and again in 1987, and compared the species and community structure to that of other sites we had visited in Japan and New Zealand. We found 5 lichen, 47 bry...