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Table 5 Vegetation composition at the Anchorage Island study sites

From: The effect of environmental change on vascular plant and cryptogam communities from the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic

 

Anchorage Island

   

Vegetation type

Moss

 

Lichen

 
  

(%)

 

(%)

(a): alga, (l): lichen, (m): moss

   
 

Sanionia uncinata (m)

47.8

Buellia latemarginata (l)

30.0

 

Brachythecium austrosalebrosum (m)

21.6

Usnea antarctica (l)

21.3

 

Prasiola crispa (a)

19.0

Rhizoplaca aspidophora (l)

9.8

 

Pohlia nutans (m)

11.4

Acarospora macrocyclos (l)

4.8

 

Buellia spp. (l)

<1.0

Prasiola crispa (a)

1.8

 

Cephaloziella varians

<1.0

Buellia spp. (l)

6.0

 

Usnea antarctica (l)

<1.0

Cephaloziella varians

<1.0

 

Acarospora macrocyclos (l)

<1.0

Umbilicaria decussata (l)

<1.0

   

Xanthoria elegans (l)

<1.0

  1. Mean cover (%) of cryptogams in the control plots of each vegetation type at Anchorage Island at the start of the experiment. Species are listed in order of abundance from top to bottom. (Cephaloziella varians is a liverwort)