Topographic and geomorphologic controls on the distribution of vegetation formations in Elephant Point (Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctica)

This research has been funded by the project CTM2016-77878-P. The Antarctic campaign of 2014 was supported by the Portuguese Polar Programme (PROPOLAR) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia of Portugal. The authors wish to thank the Brazilian Antarctic Programme and the Chilean National Ant...

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Published in:Science of The Total Environment
Main Authors: Ruiz Fernández, Jesús, Oliva, Marc, García Hernández, Cristina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10651/43178
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.158
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Summary:This research has been funded by the project CTM2016-77878-P. The Antarctic campaign of 2014 was supported by the Portuguese Polar Programme (PROPOLAR) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia of Portugal. The authors wish to thank the Brazilian Antarctic Programme and the Chilean National Antarctic Programme for their logistical support during the fieldwork. Marc Oliva also thanks the AXA Research Fund for funding his Antarctic research, and Cristina García Hernández thanks the FPU programme of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, for funding her doctoral research contract (grant number MECD-15-FPU14/01279).