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Coupled atmosphere-ocean response of the southwest Pacific to deglacial changes in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 (Ref: 17084)
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The last glacial termination was characterised by millennial-scale episodes of warming and cooling that appear offset between the hemispheres. It has been proposed that this bi-polar seesaw is the result of climate system feedbacks. A key debate, which remains unresolved…

Easy come, easy go: capillary forces enable rapid refilling of embolized primary xylem vessels Plant Physiology, 2015 (Ref: 15566)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Protoxylem plays an important role in the hydraulic function of vascular systems of both herbaceous and woody plants, but relatively little is known about the processes underlying maintenance of protoxylem function in long-lived tissues. In the present study…

Facing the furious fifties: the contractile stem of the subantarctic megaherb Pleurophyllum hookeri. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2006 (Ref: 12642)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

On the cool, moist, extremely windy … subantarctic islands, vegetation is treeless and megaherbs, tussock grasses, and cushion plants are the … dominant plant growth forms. In world terms the … subantarctic environment is an unusual one…

Safer to be dry - desiccation protects Antarctic mosses from UV-B induced DNA damage American Society of Plant Biologists, 2006 (Ref: 12888)
Category 3: Abstract

Growth conditions in Antarctica are extreme, and the few plants that can … grow there are exposed to a highly seasonal, rapidly variable and often … extreme climate. In recent decades, these plants have also been exposed to … increased levels of UV-B radiation (UV-BR)…

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