Reproductive Output of Mosses Under Experimental Warming on Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Maritime Antarctica

• Main Authors: Casanova-Katny, Angélica, Torres-Mellado, G. A., Eppley, Sarah M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: PDXScholar 2016
• Subjects: Bryophytes > Fildes Peninsula (Antarctica); Mosses > Fildes Peninsula (Antarctica); Mosses > Sexual reproduction > Effect of stress on; Biology; Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; King George Island; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/bio_fac/140; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=bio_fac

Background: Mosses dominate much of the vegetation in the Antarctic, but the effect of climatic change on moss growth and sexual reproduction has scarcely been studied. In Antarctica, mosses infrequently produce sporophytes; whether this is due to physiological limitation or an adaptive response is...