Introduced and indigenous fungi of the Ross Island historic huts and pristine areas of

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Farrell, Roberta L., Arenz, Brett E., Duncan, Shona Margaret, Held, Benjamin W., Jurgens, Joel Allan, Blanchette, Robert A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2011
• Subjects: terrestrial; climate change; biodiversity; adaptation; Antarctic; Ross Island; Ross Dependency; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5539; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-011-1060-8

This review summarizes research concerning Antarctic fungi at the century-old historic huts of the Heroic Period of exploration in the Ross Dependency 1898–1917 and fungi in pristine terrestrial locations. The motivation of the research was initially to identify potential fungal causes of degradatio...