Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity

JR Lee, MJ Waterman, JD Shaw… - Global Change …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic biodiversity faces an unknown future with a changing climate. Most terrestrial biota
is restricted to limited patches of ice‐free land in a sea of ice, where they are adapted to the …

Deer grazing drove an assemblage‐level evolution of plant dwarfism in an insular system

D Takahashi, Y Suyama, K Fukushima… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant dwarfism, a syndrome characterised by a significant reduction in plant height and
organ size, is a widely observed pattern of stress‐tolerant life‐form evolution that results …

Investigation of ecologically relevant wind patterns on Marion Island using Computational Fluid Dynamics and measured data

KA Goddard, KJ Craig, J Schoombie, PC Le Roux - Ecological Modelling, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A need was identified to have reliable quantitative wind pattern data for Marion Island (MI) in
the study of terrestrial ecology (fauna and flora) on this well-preserved and remote territory in …

Exposing wind stress as a driver of fine‐scale variation in plant communities

M Momberg, DW Hedding, M Luoto… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The effects of temperature and precipitation, and the impacts of changes in these climatic
conditions, on plant communities have been investigated extensively. The roles of other …

Fine‐scale variation in the effect of the cushion plant Azorella selago on vascular plants, mosses, hepatics and lichens in the sub‐Antarctic

IPR Buyens, MJ Raath‐Krüger… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Question Plant–plant interactions can strongly influence community structure and
composition. The outcome of these interactions can vary considerably across space and is …

The influence of cushion plants on soil fertility islands under their canopies with ontogenesis in an extreme alpine ecosystem

R Zhao - Plant and Soil, 2023‏ - Springer
Purpose Alpine cushion plants are known as “nurse plants” in alpine ecosystems. Soil
fertility islands underneath the cushion canopies are responsible for their nursing potential …

Seed trap** or a nurse effect? Disentangling the drivers of fine-scale plant species association patterns in a windy environment

CA Gouws, NS Haussmann, PC le Roux - Polar Biology, 2021‏ - Springer
Plant co-occurrence patterns can be driven by both abiotic and biotic conditions. Biotic
interactions can affect the co-occurrence of seedlings and adult plants through the nurse …

Morphological variability of cushion plant Lyallia kerguelensis (Caryophyllales) in relation to environmental conditions and geography in the Kerguelen Islands …

LJ Marchand, M Tarayre, T Dorey, Y Rantier… - Polar Biology, 2021‏ - Springer
In recent decades, climate change has been faster in various parts of the world. Within
species, to counter rapid climate changes shift of geographical area, individuals' plastic …

[معلومات الإصدار][C] Wind as a climatic driver of biotic communities in the sub-Antarctic

M Momberg - 2021‏ - University of Pretoria