Putzke J., Schaefer C.E.G.R., Villa P.M. & Almeida P.H.A.
(2021):
Whale bones: a key and endangered substrate for cryptogams in Antarctica,
Polar Biology,
44: 2085–2097
Whale bones are very abundant at coastal sites across the Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica, since whale
hunting was common in the beginning of the XX century. Since then, these bones became suitable substrate and true oasis
for many mosses and lichenized fungi, but their number is dramatically changing in the coastal zones, due to the sea erosion,
degradation, and anthropization. In this work, whale bones found in Keller Peninsula were mapped with drone images
coupled with field …
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