Passive Warming Reduces Stress and Shifts Reproductive Effort in the Antarctic Moss, Polytrichastrum alpinum

• Published in: Annals of Botany
• Main Authors: Shortlidge, Erin E., Eppley, Sarah M., Kohler, Hans, Rosenstiel, Todd N., Zúñiga, Gustavo E., Casanova-Katny, Angélica
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: PDXScholar 2017
• Subjects: Biology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; King George Island; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/bio_fac/162; https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw201; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/context/bio_fac/article/1162/type/native/viewcontent/Passive_warming_reduces_stress_and_shifts.html

Background and Aims: The Western Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth, and many biotic communities inhabiting this dynamic region are responding to these well-documented climatic shifts. Yet some of the most prevalent organisms of terrestrial Antarctica, the mosses...