Carbon dioxide exchange of two ecodemes of Schistidium antarctici in Continental Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Kappen, L., Smith, R.I.L., Meyer, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1989
• Subjects: Botany; Chemistry; Wilkes Land; Windmill Islands; Casey Station; Greater Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology; Schistidium antarctici
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520988/; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00443227

Schistidium antarctici is the commonest of five bryophytes known in the Windmill Islands area of Wilkes Land, Greater Antarctica. In moist habitats it forms closed carpets, but in dry sites it develops a short cushion growth form. Carbon dioxide exchange of both a mesic (Sm) and a xeric growth form...