• TerrANTALife 1.0 Biodiversity data checklist of known Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater life forms 

    Pertierra, Luis R.; Varliero, Gilda; Barbosa, Andrés; Biersma, Elisabeth M.; Convey, Peter; Chown, Steven L.; Cowan, Don; De Los Rios, Asunción; Escribano-Alvarez, Pablo; Fontaneto, Diego; Fraser, Ceridwen; Harris, Mathew; Hughes, Kevin; Griffiths, Huw; le Roux, Peter; Liu, Xiaoyue P.; Lynch, Heather; Majewska, Roksana; Martinez, Pablo A.; Molina-Montenegro, Marco A.; Olalla-Tarraga, Miguel A.; Peck, Lloyd; Quesada, Antonio; Ronquillo, Cristina; Ropert-Coudert, Yan; Sancho, Leopoldo; Terauds, Aleks; Vianna, Juliana A.; Wilmotte, Annick; Hortal, Joaquín; Greve, Michelle (2024)
    Incomplete species inventories for Antarctica represent a key challenge for comprehensive ecological research and conservation in the region. Additionally, data required to understand population dynamics, rates of ...

  • The "Trojan horse" strategy: seed fungal endophyte symbiosis helps to explain the invasion success of the grass, Poa annua, in maritime Antarctica 

    Molina-Montenegro, Marco A.; Ballesteros, Gabriel I.; Acuña-Rodríguez, Ian S; Pertierra, Luis R.; Greve, Michelle; Richardson, David M.; Convey, Peter; Biersma, Elisabeth M.; Goodall-Copestake, William P; Newsham, Kevin K. (2023)
    Aim: Poa annua L. (annual bluegrass) is presently the sole invasive vascular plant spe-cies to have successfully established in Maritime Antarctica, where it poses a sig-nificant conservation threat to native plant species. ...

  • The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios 

    Acuña-Rodríguez, Ian S; Newsham, Kevin K.; Convey, Peter; Biersma, Elisabeth M.; Ballesteros, Gabriel I.; Torres-Díaz, Cristian; Goodall-Copestake, William P; Molina-Montenegro, Marco A. (2024)
    Glacier retreat in cold regions exposes new terrain for plant colonization. However, the roles of soil microbiomes in plant establishment and performance on newly-exposed forefields have rarely been assessed. Here, we ...