Global southern limit of flowering plants and moss peat accumulation

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Convey, Peter, Hopkins, David, Roberts, Stephen J, Tyler, Andrew
• Other Authors: British Antarctic Survey, Biological and Environmental Sciences, orcid:0000-0003-0604-5827
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic plants; distribution limits; peat accumulation; dating; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Lazarev; Lazarev Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/7717; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v30i0.8929; http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/8929; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/7717/1/8929-34303-1-PB.pdf

The ecosystems of the western Antarctic Peninsula, experiencing amongst the most rapid trends of regional climate warming worldwide, are important "early warning" indicators for responses expected in more complex systems elsewhere. Central among responses attributed to this regional warmin...