Soil characteristics and decomposition of organic matter on Anchorage, Signy and Falkland Islands

• Main Authors: Bokhorst, Stef, Huiskes, Ad H L, Convey, Peter, Aerts, Raf
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Anchorage; Signy Island; Anchorage Island; Antarc*; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.807660; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.807660

Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems have poorly developed soils and currently experience one of the greatest rates of climate warming on the globe. We investigated the responsiveness of organic matter decomposition in Maritime Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems to climate change, using two study sites in...