Evidence of plant and animal communities at exposed and subglacial (cave) geothermal sites in Antarctica

Geothermal areas, such as volcanoes, might have acted as glacial microrefugia for a wide range of species. The heavily glaciated but volcanically active Antarctic continent presents an ideal system for assessing this hypothesis. Ice-free terrain around volcanoes in Antarctica is, however, often rest...

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Published in:Polar Biology
Main Authors: Fraser, Ceridwen I., Connell, Laurie, Lee, Charles Kai-Wu, Cary, S. Craig
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13200
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2198-9