Plant and invertebrate ecology

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
• Main Author: Longton, R.E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Royal Society 1967
• Subjects: Botany; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Greene; Siple; Bryant; Rudolph; Skottsberg; Neny; Candlemas Island; Neny Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526722/; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0014

The pioneer studies of Skottsberg (1912), supported by the observations of Bertram (1938) and Bryant (1945), showed that a range of bryophyte and lichen communities are developed in many localities along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and on its offshore islands. In contrast, the terrestr...