Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Antarctic Research Series, Volume 20.
These 13 original papers on terrestrial biological research initiate a companion to Biology of the Antarctic Seas, which now comprises four volumes of the Antarctic Research Series. The articles in this volume range in subject matter from the limnology, physiology, and ecology of aquatic systems to the taxonomy of fresh-water algae, lichens, mosses, fungi, protozoa, and land arthropods of Antarctica. It concludes appropriately, and for reasons stated below, with a paper on subantarctic rain forests.
This terrestrial volume brings together research papers that are less suitable for publication under existing Antarctic Research Series volumes and, as a consequence, reveals anot...