Biological interactions and simulated climate change modulates the ecophysiological performance of Colobanthus quitensis in the Antarctic ecosystem

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Torres-Diaz, Cristian, Gallardo-Cerda, Jorge, Lavin, Paris, Oses, Romulo, Carrasco-Urra, Fernando, Atala, Cristian, Acuña-Rodríguez, Ian S., Convey, Peter, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; King George Island; Lagotellerie; Lagotellerie Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511958/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511958/1/Torres-Diaz.pdf; http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164844

Most climate and environmental change models predict significant increases in temperature and precipitation by the end of the 21st Century, for which the current functional output of certain symbioses may also be altered. In this context we address the following questions: 1) How the expected change...