The bryophyte flora of geothermal habitats on Deception Island, Antarctica

• Main Author: Smith, R.I. Lewis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Hattori Botanical Laboratory 2005
• Subjects: Botany; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Deception Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/2004/; http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~hattorib/journal.html

Deception Island is one of the most volcanically active sites south of 60°S. Between 1967 and 1970 three major eruptions devastated large expanses of the landscape and its predominantly cryptogamic vegetation. Since 1970 extensive recolonisation has occurred on the more stable surfaces. Unheated gro...