Antarctic biodiversity faces an unknown future with a changing climate. Most terrestrial biota
is restricted to limited patches of ice‐free land in a sea of ice, where they are adapted to the …

Successful alien species invasion depends on many factors studied mostly in post invasion
habitats, and subsequently summarized in frameworks tailored to describe the studied …

Antarctica is a region of the world where climate change is visible in the rapid melting of
glaciers. This is particularly evident in marginal zones, where the pace of glacial retreat has …

Arctic environments are commonly considered to be relatively pristine because of minimal
local human activity. However, these areas receive air pollution from lower latitude regions …

Zygnematophyceae are main primary producers in polar hydro-terrestrial habitats,
characterized by extreme abiotic conditions. They are expected to be strongly impacted by …

The main aim of this study was to identify variations in heavy metal concentrations in
Cetrariella delisei along a transect from a High Arctic glacier forehead to the shoreline as …

Vegetation succession in front of five retreating glaciers was studied using phytosociological
relevés (60) located at different distances between the Little Ice Age (LIA) moraines and the …

Tardigrades in lichens have been poorly studied with few papers published on their ecology
and diversity so far. The aims of our study are to determine the (1) influence of habitat …

The rapidly changing Arctic provides excellent opportunities for investigating primary
succession on freshly deglaciated areas. Research on the Gåsbreen foreland (S …

Arctic vegetation still lacks a uniform system to classify its plant communities, the current
arrangement of the phytosociological data being difficult to interpret. However, using modern …