| Title | Plant biodiversity in an extreme environment |
| Author | Skotnicki, M.L.; Selkirk, P.M. |
| Source | Trends in Antarctic terrestrial and limnetic ecosystems; Antarctica as a global indicator, edited by D.M. Bergstrom, P. Convey and A.H.L. Huiskes, p.161-175, . Publisher: Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. ISBN: 1-4020-5276-6; 978-1-4020-5276-7; 978-1- 4020-5277-4; 1-4020-5277-4 |
| Publication Date | 2006 |
| Notes | In English. 83 refs. GeoRef Acc. No: 297111. CRREL Acc. No: 64002118 |
| Index Terms | biogeography; distribution; ecology; plant ecology; Antarctica; biodiversity; Bryophyta; colonization; genetics; Musci; Plantae; transport |
| Abstract | Discusses plant biodiversity in continental Antarctica with particular reference to mosses, including genetic diversity within and among Antarctic moss populations; dispersal and colonisation; mutation; origins of Antarctic moss populations; and plant pathogens. Comments briefly on potential use of ITS gene sequences to identify snow and endolithic algae; and use of molecular genetic techniques to investigate diversity and dispersal of vascular plants in Maritime Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands |
| Publication Type | monograph |
| Record ID | 87464 |