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SUMMARY:Climate Change Impacts in Polar Regions: Lessons from Antarctic Mo
 ss Bank Archives - Professor Howard Griffiths (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20160215T170000Z
DTEND:20160215T180000Z
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CONTACT:Matouš Ptáček
DESCRIPTION:Mosses are the dominant plants in polar and boreal regions and
  are experiencing rapid impacts of regional warming. Peat cores from moss 
 banks contain a temporal record of past climate change in terrestrial plan
 t Antarctic systems. The use of Carbon-13 and Oxygen-18 signals in organic
  material has been related to rates of moss accumulation in the maritime A
 ntarctic. The interplay between moss growth form\, photosynthetic physiolo
 gy\, water status and isotope composition will be compared with additional
  proxies\, such as testate amoebae. The studies demonstrate the impact of 
 warming throughout the Antarctic peninsula\, and have implications for nor
 thern hemisphere moss growth in a changing climate.
LOCATION:Harker Room 1\, Department of Earth Sciences
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