1994
DOI: 10.1007/bf00627745
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Vascular plants as bioindicators of regional warming in Antarctica

Abstract: Monitoring selected populations of the only two native Antarctic vascular plant species (Colobanthus quitensis andDeschampsia antarctica) over a 27-year period has revealed a significant and relatively rapid increase in numbers of individuals and populations at two widely separated localities in the maritime Antarctic. There is strong evidence that this increase is a response to a warming trend in summer air temperatures, which has been evident throughout the region since the late 1940s, enhancing seed maturat… Show more

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“…Existe evidencia sustancial para sugerir que la dinámica de las comunidades vegetales antárticas están cambiando en respuesta al cambio climático global (Robinson et al 2003, Wasley et al 2006. Por ejemplo en las islas Signy, en las Orcadas del Sur, se ha demostrado un aumento en la temperatura y una reducción en la cobertura de hielo, lo que ha proporcionado a la vegetación nuevas áreas disponibles para la colonización (Smith, 1994). Esto último ha repercutido en cambios positivos en la abundancia y cobertura de C. quitensis en los últimos años (Fowbert & Lewis Smith 1994).…”
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“…Existe evidencia sustancial para sugerir que la dinámica de las comunidades vegetales antárticas están cambiando en respuesta al cambio climático global (Robinson et al 2003, Wasley et al 2006. Por ejemplo en las islas Signy, en las Orcadas del Sur, se ha demostrado un aumento en la temperatura y una reducción en la cobertura de hielo, lo que ha proporcionado a la vegetación nuevas áreas disponibles para la colonización (Smith, 1994). Esto último ha repercutido en cambios positivos en la abundancia y cobertura de C. quitensis en los últimos años (Fowbert & Lewis Smith 1994).…”
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“…These methods have several weaknesses (Kennedy, 1995b, c), and the more recent studies have developed means to minimize their effects, but they have been useful for assessing the likely responses of the indigenous biota to climate change. The use of screens has led to spectacular responses in the growth of microbial groups, bryophytes and higher plants (Smith, 1990(Smith, , 1994WynnWilliams, 1993WynnWilliams, , 1996Kennedy, 1996). Fewer studies have been directed at faunal communities, but some arthropod populations have expanded rapidly (Kennedy, 1994), and trophic groups of soil nematodes have responded differently (Convey & Wynn-Williams, 2002;.…”
Section: Implications Of Climate Change (1 ) Climate Trendsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To date, many terrestrial studies on Antarctic plant communities have focused on the angiosperms (e.g. Smith, 1994;Day et al, 1999Day et al, , 2008Hill et al, 2011;Torres-Mellado et al, 2011), while fewer have examined moss communities (for reviews, see Robinson et al, 2003;Bramley-Alves et al, 2014). Continuing expansion of ice-free regions in Antarctica will increase the size of habitats suitable for colonization by stresstolerant mosses (Longton, 1988;Convey and Lewis Smith, 2006;Bramley-Alves et al, 2014;Convey et al, 2014); therefore, understanding the impacts of global warming on Antarctica's moss communities will be key to making informed predictions about the future of Antarctica's terrestrial ice-free margins (Smith, 1994;Royles et al, 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%