Colonization by lichens and the development of lichen-dominated communities in the maritime Antarctic

• Published in: The Lichenologist
• Main Author: Smith, R.I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; New Rock; Antarc*; Antarctica; Usnea antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515851/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-2829(95)80007-7

Three long-term studies of lichen growth and colonization have been undertaken at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, in the maritime Antarctic. Small individual thalli of several crustose species and uncolonized plots on 12 fresh rock surfaces were photographically monitored at intervals of 3–4 yea...