Moss stable isotopes (carbon-13, oxygen-18) and testate amoebae reflect environmental inputs and microclimate along a latitudinal gradient on the Antarctic Peninsula

Oecologia

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 931-945

  Royles, Jessica ^a,c   Amesbury, Matthew J ^b   Roland, Thomas P ^b   Jones, Glyn D ^c   Convey, Peter ^a   Griffiths, Howard ^c   Hodgson, Dominic A ^a   Charman, Dan J ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Climate change; Microtopography; Precipitation; Water line

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MICROCLIMATE; MOSS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; SAMPLING; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

BRYOPHYTA; RADIATA;

CARBON; OXYGEN;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROCLIMATE;

AMOEBA; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROCLIMATE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES;

EID: 84961778330     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3608-3     Document Type: Article

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