Description: Das Projekt "Aspects of global change and the biodiversity along an altitudinal transect in continental Antarctica" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Düsseldorf, Department Biologie, Institut für Stoffwechselphysiologie,Zoophysiologie, Arbeitsgruppe Ecophysiology durchgeführt. Lichens and bryophytes form the dominant vegetation at terrestrial sites across the Antarctic. Detailed research has been done at terrestrial coastal sites of the maritime Antarctic. While there is a broad knowledge on well-developed communizes of lichens and bryophytes considering physiology and vegetation ecology of these coastal sites the knowledge of diversity, ecology and physiology is scarce across continental sites. The rare investigations on continental Antarctica focused on coastal sites (on more or less sea level) where lichen colonization occurred. The question arises whether lichen colonization is restricted to lower altitudes at continental sites or will appear also up to higher elevations. The hypothesis of the project is that lichens are able to colonies higher altitudes as long as micro niches with suitable environmental parameters are available. Therefore, the proposed project focuses on the characterization of microclimate and atmospheric parameters to be able to describe environmental parameters which may influence and effect lichen species at respective habitats. In addition, chlorophyll a fluorescence will be calculated to get indications on response of photosynthesis activity. The project also emphasizes on the diversity of lichen species along an altitudinal transect up to 3000m a.s.l. and the interactions between and among species considering the colonization process. The aim of the project is to correlate the data achieved with environmental change at the continental Antarctic.
Types:
SupportProgram
Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Düsseldorf ? Besiedlung ? Fluoreszenz ? Ökophysiologie ? Tierphysiologie ? Vegetation ? Fischer-Tropsch-Verfahren ? Flechte ? Moos ? Ökologie ? Physiologie ? Brunnen ? Neuseeland ? Chlorophyll ? Habitat ? Photosynthese ? Topographie ? Antarktis ? Arktis ? Mikroklima ? Artenvielfalt ? Daten ? Standortwahl ? Umweltforschung ? Küstenregion ? Mikroklimatische Wirkung ? Meeresspiegel ? Umweltveränderung ? Biodiversität ? Infrastruktur ? Kenngröße ? Art [Spezies] ? verfügbar ? Aspekt ? Bram-Verfahren ? Diversität ? Frage ? Projekt ? Verantwortung ? Adsox-Verfahren ?
Region: Nordrhein-Westfalen
Bounding box: 6.76339° .. 6.76339° x 51.21895° .. 51.21895°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Deutsch
Time ranges: 2009-01-01 - 2014-12-31
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