Resilience of the Antarctic moss Ceratodon purpureus to the effects of elevated UV-B radiation and climate change

• Main Author: Clarke, Laurence John
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Schistidium antarctici
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/1919; https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2919&context=theses

Climate change is predicted to affect the biota of high latitudes first and most severely, and significant changes in temperature and wind speed have already been observed in parts of the Antarctic. Similarly, springtime ozone depletion since the late 1970s has led to an increase in potentially muta...