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Biology and population studies of two endemic Nematocera (orchid) species on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 2009
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Two endemic orchid species, Nematoceras dienemum and N. sulcatum, are known from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Several additional orchid populations on the island are reported and cleistogamy is documented in N. dienemum for the first time. The known population sizes…
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The first subantarctic plant virus report: Stilbocarpa mosaic bacilliform badnavirus (SMBV) from Macquarie Island. Polar Biology, 2003
(Ref: 10409)
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We report here the finding of a new plant virus, Stilbocarpa mosaic bacilliform badnavirus (SMBV) in Stilbocarpa polaris (Homb. et Jacq.) Gray on subantarctic Macquarie Island. This is the first vascular plant virus reported from any of the remote subantarctic islands…
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Biological invasions in the Antarctic: extent, impacts and implications. Biological Reviews, 2005
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Alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals occur on most of the sub-Antarctic islands and some parts of the … Antarctic continent. These have arrived over approximately the last two centuries, coincident with human … activity in the region. Introduction routes have varied…
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Plant biodiversity in an extreme environment: Genetic studies of origins, diversity and evolution in the Antarctic Trends in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems: Antarctica as a Global Indicator, 2006
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Mosses surviving on the edge: Origins, genetic diversity, and mutation in Antarctica. Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden, 2004
(Ref: 12453)
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Mosses are the dominant plant species in continental Antarctica, where they sparsely colonize the limited stony … coastal areas not permanently covered with snow and ice. The few species of mosses present in Antarctica live ‘‘on the … edge’’ for plant life…