Vegetation diversity and selected abiotic factors influencing the primary succession process on the foreland of Gåsbreen, Svalbard

• Published in: Polish Polar Research
• Main Authors: Wietrzyk, Paulina, Węgrzyn, Michał, Lisowska, Maja
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Bryophytes; Colonisation; Glacier; Lichens; Vascular plants; glacier; Polar Research; Svalbard; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/497; https://doi.org/10.1515/popore-2016-0026

The rapidly changing Arctic provides excellent opportunities for investigating primary succession on freshly deglaciated areas. Research on the Gåsbreen foreland (S Spitsbergen) traced the succession of particular groups of organisms and species, particularly lichens and bryophytes, and determined t...