Sensitivity to temperature and radiation and irradiance along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients

The principal aim is to understand the ecological factors responsible of the drastic descent in the biodiversity and productivity of the Antarctic tundra that has been observed in the mainly maritime Antarctica to continental Antarctica.The research group wants to cover the principal aspects of the vegetable life in Antarctica: biodiversity ( vegetable communities, flora and taxonomy), micro and mesoclimatic aspects, mosses and lichens photosynthetic activity of mosses and lichends under natural conditions, evaluation of the Antarctic tundra growth in relation with the main climatic factors, determination of the optimal light and temperature for the photosynthesis of the previously studied in continental Antarctica and the capacity of seeds production and germination rate of the two vascular Antarctic plants.

All these studies are considered through a height gradient, with Monte Reina Sofia as the highest point, with the aim of finding in a local region similar behavioural tendencies that those observed between maritime and continental Antarctica. En Espanol: Este dataset contiene informacion sobre el proyecto ECOTER, que realiza un estudio integrado de las comunidades vegetales antarticas, incluyendo musgos, liquenes y plantas vasculares.