Acceleration of climate warming and plant dynamics in Antarctica

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Nicoletta Cannone, Francesco Malfasi, Sergio Enrico Favero-Longo, Peter Convey, Mauro Guglielmin
• Other Authors: Cannone, Nicoletta, Malfasi, Francesco, Enrico Favero-Longo, Sergio, Convey, Peter, Guglielmin, Mauro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: climate warming; Antarctica; Deschampsia antarctica; Colobanthus quitensis; valscular plants; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentine; Argentine Islands; Signy Island; South Orkney Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11383/2131504; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.074

The strong air temperature warming between the 1950s and 2016 in the Antarctic Peninsula region1 exceeded the global average warming2,3 with evident impacts on terrestrial ecosystems and the two native Antarctic vascular plants Deschampsia antarctica Desv. and Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl.4–1...