Estimates of lichen growth rates in the maritime Antarctic

• Published in: Arctic and Alpine Research
• Main Author: Lindsay, D.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor and Francis 1973
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Botany; Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Antarc*; Arctic; Arctic and Alpine Research
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526009/; https://doi.org/10.2307/1550127

Using growth rates estimated from lichens growing on introduced substrata on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands (lat. 61 °S., long. 45 °W.), the two most recent moraines of a glacier on this island have been tentatively dated as being deposited around 1880 and 1837. The growth rate of Rhizocarpon ge...