Metabolic recovery of the Antarctic liverwort Cephaloziella varians during spring snowmelt

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Snell, K.R.S., Convey, P., Newsham, K.K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2007
• Subjects: Botany; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Rothera; Rothera Point; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6002/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6002/1/Snell_et_al._2007.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-007-0269-z

We measured the responses of pigments and chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters of the Antarctic leafy liverwort Cephaloziella varians to snowmelt during austral spring 2005 at Rothera Point on the western Antarctic Peninsula. Although no changes to the concentrations of UV-B photoprotective pigment...