Publication details
Moss inhabiting diatoms of Galindez Island, Argentine Islands (the maritime Antarctica) exhibit low diversity and pronounced differentiation
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Czech polar reports |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://doi.org/10.5817/CPR2022-1-5 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CPR2022-1-5 |
| Keywords | Antarctic region; Bacillariophyceae; diatoms; ecology; mosses |
| Description | The moss-inhabiting diatom flora has been surveyed for the first time on the Galindez Island, Argentine Islands, the maritime Antarctica. Altogether, 23 diatom taxa belonging to 9 genera were identified. Diatom taxa distribution exhibited considerable variability across the samples and lower species richness compared to the communities surveyed in other Antarctic regions studied earlier -South Shetland Islands and James Ross Island. A pronounced single-species dominance was revealed by the analysis of moss-inhabiting diatom communities' structure at the majority of moss substrates. The allocation of cer-tain diatom species to the particular moss substrates was detected alongside their com-plete absence in some samples. The reasons for such moss-inhabiting diatom communi-ties' variability should be further investigated in follow-up studies. |