Past Antarctica - Paleoclimatology and Climate Change CHAPTER 11 Geoecological responses

• Main Author: N. Cannone
• Other Authors: M. Oliva, J. Ruiz-Fernandez, Cannone, N.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; biogeography; geoecological responses; climate change; Antarctica; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Davey; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11383/2101266

Organisms living in polar regions are subject to some of the most extreme environmental conditions on Earth. Antarctic vegetation is mainly composed of non-vascular cryptogams, with bryophytes and mosses, in particular, being the dominant terrestrial flora with lichens and algae (e.g., Øvstedal and...