Structure and function of two Antarctic terrestrial moss communities

• Published in: Ecological Monographs
• Main Author: Davis, R.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ecological Society of America 1981
• Subjects: Botany; Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524669/; https://doi.org/10.2307/2937260

Two bryophyte—dominated communities in the maritime Antarctic are analyzed in terms of the transfer and standing crops of organic matter within them. A moss turf dominated by Polytrichum alpestre and Chorisodontium aciphyllum and a moss carpet composed of Calliergon sarmentosum, Calliergidium austro...