Antarctic ecosystems are under increasing anthropogenic pressure, but efforts to predict the
responses of Antarctic biodiversity to environmental change are hindered by considerable …

The pixels of remote images often contain more than one distinct material (mixed pixels),
and so their spectra are characterized by a mixture of spectral signals. Since 1971, a shared …

Protection of Antarctica's biodiversity and ecosystem values is enshrined in the Protocol on
Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, which provides for the designation of …

Cyanobacterial mat communities are the main drivers of primary productivity in the McMurdo
Dry Valleys, Antarctica. These microbial communities form laminar mats on desert pavement …

Microbial biofilms have received great attention in the last few decades from both aquatic
ecologists and biogeomorphologists. Most recently, this has focused on mapping biofilms to …

Terrestrial vegetation communities across Antarctica are characteristically sparse,
presenting a challenge for mapping their occurrence using remote sensing at the continent …

In many temperate streams, biological uptake of N acts to attenuate the transport of excess N
from allochthonous anthropogenic imports. Relatively few studies have determined how this …

Antarctic water tracks and ephemeral wetlands are a primary location for biogeochemical
soil processes driving cold desert soil formation. Though the spatial extent of water tracks …

We use correlative field studies and high-resolution multispectral remote sensing data from
the WorldView-2 instrument to estimate the abundance of photosynthetically active biomass …

Drylands are unique among terrestrial ecosystems in that they have a significant proportion
of primary production facilitated by non‐vascular plants such as colonial cyanobacteria …