Project information
SEPPELT, Prof. Rod
Australian Antarctic Division
Prince Charles Mountains, Casey, Australia (or home country)
Project aim
This project seeks to examine patterns in biodiversity in bryophytes and lichens on continental Antarctica. It is investigating if there is such a thing as the limit of life by exploring ice free localities that are very far south. The project will try to isolate the most important environmental variables influencing plant diversity in Antarctica. Biodiversity data will be assembled into international biodiversity database and will contribute to the overall understanding of patterns in biodiversity across the planet.
Related publications
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High diversity of lichens at 84°S, Queen Maud Mountains,
suggests preglacial survival of species in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 2011
(Ref: 14336)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams., 2009
(Ref: 14331)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Newly resolved relationships in an early land plant lineage: Bryophyta class Sphagnopsida (peat mosses). American Journal of Botany, 2010
(Ref: 14330)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Historical ozone concentrations and flavonoid levels in herbarium specimens of the Antarctic moss Bryum argenteum. Global Change Biology, 2009
(Ref: 14329)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Selecting and testing cryptogam species for use in wetland delineation in Alaska. Arctic, 2009
(Ref: 14328)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature