Extreme high lichen growth rates detected in recently deglaciated areas in Tierra del Fuego

Polar Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 813-822

  Sancho, Leopoldo G ^a   Palacios, David ^b   Green, T G Allan ^a,c   Vivas, Mercedes ^a   Pintado, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Glacier retreat; Lichen growth; Placopsis; Rhizocarpon; Tierra del Fuego

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DEGLACIATION; DICOTYLEDON; FJORD; GLACIER RETREAT; GROWTH RATE; LICHEN; LICHENOMETRY; MORAINE;

BEAGLE CHANNEL; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA];

EMBRYOPHYTA; NOTHOFAGUS; PLACOPSIS; PLACOPSIS PERRUGOSA; RHIZOCARPON; RHIZOCARPON GEOGRAPHICUM;

EID: 79955797367     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0935-4     Document Type: Article

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