Isotope variations of hydrogen,carbon and nitrogen in florae from the Schirmacher Oasis,East Antarctica |
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| Authors: | Gerhard Strauch Dietmar Haendel Ingeborg Maaß Karl Mühle Annamarie Runge |
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| Institution: | 1. Zentralinstitut für Isotopen- und Strahlenforschung der AdW der DDR , Leipzig , Germany gerhard.strauch@ufz.de;3. Zentralinstitut für Isotopen- und Strahlenforschung der AdW der DDR , Leipzig , Germany |
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| Abstract: | Comparative biochemical and isotope-chemical investigations of cosmopolitical plants open up ways of obtaining parameters from different parts of the Earth which are characterised by variations in the habitat due to different environments. As an Antarctic oasis, the Schirmacher Oasis disposes of adequate favourable ecological conditions for the growth of lower plants. In the present paper, results of isotope studies of lichens, mosses and algae of the Schirmacher Oasis are given and peculiarities of the habitats which influence the isotope contents of the plants are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | algae Antarctica biology carbon-13 deuterium isotope ratio lichens nitrogen-15 plants stable isotopes |
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