Vegetation cover regulates the quantity, quality and temporal dynamics of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in Antarctic soils.

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Roberts, Paula, Newsham, Kevin K., Bardgett, Richard D., Farrar, John F., Jones, David L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/31294/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-009-0599-0

Populations of the two native Antarctic vascular plant species (Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis) have expanded rapidly in recent decades, yet little is known about the effects of these expansions on soil nutrient cycling. We measured the concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (D...