Responses of Antarctic Tundra Ecosystem to Climate Change and Human Activity

Olech Maria
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Olech Maria: Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, 31-501 Cracow, Poland

Papers on Global Change IGBP, 2010, vol. 17, issue 1, 43-52

Abstract: Over the last couple of years the Antarctic Peninsula region has been one of the fastest warming regions on the Earth. Rapidly proceeding deglaciation uncovers new areas for colonisation and formation of Antarctic tundra communities. The most evident dynamics, i.e. changes in both biodiversity and structure of tundra communities, are observed in the forefields of retreating glaciers. This paper presents examples of changes in biodiversity and in the direction and rate of succession changes taking place due to climate warming compounded by synanthropization in the maritime Antarctic.

Keywords: Antarctic; climate change; colonisation; tundra ecosystem; biodiversity; alien species (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.2478/v10190-010-0004-4

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