Latitudinal Gradient Project - Australian contributions
This record relates to the Australian component of the Latitudinal Gradient Project. The LGP is largely a New Zealand, US and Italian venture, but a small contribution has been made by Australian scientists.
The Australian component of this work was completed as part of ASAC projects 2361 and 2682 (ASAC_2361, and ASAC_2682).
Data from this project were entered into the herbarium access database, which has been linked to this record.
The list below contains details of where and when samples were collected, and also the type of sample and the method of sampling.
Cape Hallett and vicinity (2000, 2004): Biodiversity assessment of terrestrial plants (mosses, lichens); Invertebrate collections (mites, Collembola); plant ecology and community analysis; photosynthetic physiology of mosses and lichens; molecular genetics of mosses and lichens. Random sampling for biodiversity studies; point quadrats, releves for vegetation analysis, field laboratory experiments for physiological studies.
Dry Valleys: Taylor Valley (1989, 1996), Garwood Valley (2001), Granite Harbour (1989; 1994, 1996) - plant ecology; plant physiology; biodiversity; invertebrate collections; molecular genetics of mosses. Random sampling for biodiversity studies; point quadrats, releves for vegetation analysis, field laboratory experiments for physiological studies.
Beaufort Island (1996) - plant biodiversity; molecular genetics of mosses. Random sampling for biodiversity studies; point quadrats, releves for vegetation analysis, laboratory studies for molecular genetics.
Darwin Glacier (1994): plant biodiversity; molecular genetics of invertebrates and mosses (random sampling for biodiversity; laboratory studies of invertebrate and moss molecular genetics).
Project objectives:
1. Investigate the distribution of bryophytes and lichens in continental Antarctica
1a). to test the null hypothesis that species diversity does not change significantly with latitude;
1b). to explore the relationships between species and key environmental attributes including latitude, distance from the coast, temperature, substrate, snow cover, age of ice-free substrate.
2. To continue to participate in the Ross Sea Sector Latitudinal Gradient Project and develop an Australian corollary in the Prince Charles Mountains, involving international collaborators, incorporating the first two objectives of this project.
3. To develop an international collaborative biodiversity and ecophysiological program in the Prince Charles Mountains that will provide a parallel N-S latitude gradient study to mirror the LGP program in the Ross Sea region as part of the present RISCC cooperative program (to be superseded by the EBA (Evolution and Biodiversity of Antarctica) program) to address the above objectives.
Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report:
Progress against objectives:
Continuing identification of moss and lichen samples previously collected from Cape Hallett, Granite Harbour and Darwin Glacier region. Lecidea s.l. lichens currently being studied in Austria by PhD student. Field work in Dry Valleys significantly curtailed by adverse weather.
Field work planned for Darwin Glacier region and McMurdo Dry Valleys, particularly Taylor Valley and Granite Harbour region was severely curtailed due to adverse weather, helicopter diversions due to a Medical Evacuation, and other logistic constraints. 10 days of field time were lost. Limitations on field travel in Darwin Glacier region restricted the field work to a biologically depauperate region.
The Prince Charles Mountains N-S transect, the only continental transect possibility for comparison with the Ross Sea area, unfortunately appears to have been abandoned through lack of logistic support.
Taken from the 2009-2010 Progress Report:
Identification of samples collected from AAT and Ross Sea Region continued during the year, interrupted significantly by the packing of the collection and transfer of specimens to the Tasmanian Herbarium. Work is now proceeding at the Herbarium with sorting, databasing and incorporation of packets into the Herbarium collection. The merging of the collection provides long-term security of curation and significantly boosts the cryptogam collections (35000 numbers) of the Tasmanian Herbarium.
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- Latitudinal Gradient Project - Australian contributions
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-07-11
- Edition
- 2
- Citation identifier
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Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.26179/5c3e749c0e765
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Inland waters
- Oceans
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1989-01-01 2009-12-31
- Title
- A bryophyte flora for Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 36
Author
- Name
- New Zealand Journal of Botany
- Page
- 617-635
- Title
- Terrestrial vegetation at Canada Glacier, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 12
Author
- Name
- Polar Biology
- Page
- 397-404
- Title
- Lichens and mosses from the Kar Plateau, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 33
Author
- Name
- New Zealand Journal of Botany
- Page
- 203-220
- Title
- Extreme southern locations for moss sporophytes in Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 4
Author
- Name
- Antarctic Science
- Issue identification
- 11
- Page
- 37-39
- Title
- The genus Sarcogyne (Acarosporaceae) in Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 30
Author
- Name
- Lichenologist
- Issue identification
- 3
- Page
- 249-258
- Title
- Epilithic lichens on the floor of the Taylor Valley, Ross Dependency, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 24
Author
- Name
- Lichenologist
- Page
- 57-61
- Title
- Notes on the Flora, Vertebrate Fauna and biological significance of Beaufort Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 66
Author
- Name
- Polarforschung
- Issue identification
- 1/2
- Page
- 53-59
- Title
- Terrestrial vegetation at Canada Glacier, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 12
Author
- Name
- Polar Biology
- Page
- 397-404
- Title
- Additions and corrections to the lichen flora of the Kar Plateau, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 34
Author
- Name
- New Zealand Journal of Botany
- Page
- 329-331
- Title
- Monitoring photosynthetic activity of crustose lichens using a PAM-2000 fluorescence system.
- Citation identifier
- 92
Author
- Name
- Oecologia
- Page
- 457-462
- Title
- Invertebrates associated with moss communities at Canada Glacier, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 13
Author
- Name
- Polar Biology
- Page
- 157-162
- Title
- Carbon dioxide exchange at subzero temperatures. Field measurements on Umbilicaria aprina in Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 4
Author
- Name
- Cryptogamic botany
- Page
- 233-241
- Title
- The relationship between electron transport rate through PS II and CO2 gas exchange in Antarctic cryptogams.
Author
Publisher
- Name
- In: Malthis, P. (ed.) Photosynthesis: from light to biosphere. Vol. II.
- Page
- 959-962
- Title
- The relationship between electron transport rate through PS II and CO2 gas exchange in Antarctic cryptogams.
Author
Publisher
- Name
- In: Malthis, P. (ed.) Photosynthesis: from light to biosphere. Vol. V.
- Page
- 893-896
- Title
- Chlorophyll a fluorescence and CO2 exchange of Umbilicaria aprina under extreme light stress in the cold.
- Citation identifier
- 118
Author
- Name
- Oecologia
- Issue identification
- 3
- Page
- 325-331
- Title
- Microclimate conditions, meltwater moistening, and the distribution pattern of Buellia frigida on rock in a southern continental Antarctic habitat.
- Citation identifier
- 19
Author
- Name
- Polar Biology
- Page
- 101-106
- Title
- An assessment of the relationship between chlorophyll a fluorescence and CO2 gas exchange from field measurements on a moss and a lichen.
- Citation identifier
- 206
Author
- Name
- Planta
- Page
- 611-618
- Title
- Small-scale field mapping of lichen distribution in three dimensions with a computer-based position-tracking system.
- Citation identifier
- 119
Author
- Name
- Oecologia
- Page
- 552-556
- Title
- Caloplaca coeruleofrigida sp. nova, a lichen from continental Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 86
Author
- Name
- Mycotaxon
- Page
- 163-168
- Title
- Peatmoss (Sphagnum) diversification associated with Miocene Northern Hemisphere climatic cooling.
- Citation identifier
- 55
Author
- Name
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
- Issue identification
- 3
- Page
- 1139-45
- Title
- Niphotrichum muticum (Musci, Grimmiaceae). An addition to the moss flora of the Aleutian Islands.
- Citation identifier
- 88
Author
- Name
- Botany
- Page
- 389-396
- Title
- Lichen and moss communities of Botany Bay, Granite Harbour, Ross Sea, Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 22
- Citation identifier
- 10.1017/S0954102010000568
Author
- Name
- Antarctic Science
- Issue identification
- 6
- Page
- 691-702
- Title
- Introduced mosses in the Flora of Tasmania. I. Scleropodium and Pseudoscleropodium (Bryopsida: Brachytheciaceae).
- Citation identifier
- 4
Author
- Name
- Kanunnah
- Page
- 72-81
- Title
- Introduced mosses in the Flora of Tasmania. II. Kindbergia praelonga (Bryopsida: Brachytheciaceae)
- Citation identifier
- 4
Author
- Name
- Kanunnah
- Page
- 82-88
- Title
- Dryptodon fuscoluteus (Hook.) Ochyra and Zarnowiec (Grimmiaceae) from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 to continental Antarctica.
- Citation identifier
- 31
Author
- Name
- Tropical Bryology
- Page
- 134-138
- Title
- Drepanocladus longifolius (Amblystegiaceae), an addition to the moss flora of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, with a review of Antarctic benthic mosses.
- Citation identifier
- 32
Author
- Name
- Polar Biology
- Page
- 1415-1425
- Title
- Selecting and testing cryptogam species for use in wetland delineation in Alaska.
- Citation identifier
- 62
Author
- Name
- Arctic
- Issue identification
- 2
- Page
- 201-211
- Title
- Historical ozone concentrations and flavonoid levels in herbarium specimens of the Antarctic moss Bryum argenteum.
- Citation identifier
- 15
Author
- Name
- Global Change Biology
- Page
- 1694-1702
- Title
- Bryophytes and lichens in a changing climate: An Antarctic perspective.
Author
Publisher
- Name
- In: Tuba, Z., and Slack, N. (eds.). Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change.
- Title
- Effects of global climate change on alpine and polar bryophytes.
Author
Publisher
- Name
- In: Tuba, Z., and Slack, N. (eds.). Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change.
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > HEXAPODS > INSECTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ECHINODERMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > BACTERIA/ARCHAEA > CYANOBACTERIA (BLUE-GREEN ALGAE)
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > FUNGI > LICHENS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MICROALGAE
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MICROALGAE > DIATOMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS > DIATOMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > PLANT SUCCESSION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > BIOMASS DYNAMICS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > CONSUMPTION RATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > DECOMPOSITION
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > DIURNAL MOVEMENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > MUTATION RATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > NATURAL SELECTION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > RANGE CHANGES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES COMPETITION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SURVIVAL RATES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > LAKE/POND
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ALPINE/TUNDRA
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > CHLOROPHYLL
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > NUTRIENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > PIGMENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > DESERTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION SPECIES
- Keywords
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- ANTARCTICA
- DRY VALLEYS
- LATITUDINAL GRADIENT PROJECT
- ROSS SEA
- VICTORIA LAND
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
- VISUAL CENSUS TRANSECTS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- FIELD SURVEYS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- LGP > Latitudinal Gradient Project
- EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > Ross Sea
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Cape Hallett
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Dry Valleys
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Victoria Land
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- Main LGP data are accessible through the Antarctica New Zealand, LGP Web site. Australian data collected by Rod Seppelt are currently held within the ADT Herbarium. A copy of the database is available for download from the provided URL.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=LGP when using these data.
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2012-07-11T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 2.7
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 2361
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
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Resource lineage
- Statement
- The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report: Variations to work plan or objectives: Logistic constraints limited field time, necessitating major changes in the field. Transfer of the herbarium ADT to HO required considerable time input. Field work: 4 weeks of field work were planned for the McMurdo Dry Valleys region. Two weeks were lost due to adverse weather (heavy snow falls) and helicopter schedule rearrangements due to a medical evacuation from the field. Ground based studies were carried out at Granite Harbour (with abandonment of work proposed for inland mountains) and in the Darwin Glacier region (where adverse weather and a biotically poor area limited field time to 3 days. Collections of plants made are currently being identified and will provide comparative biodiversity indices for other multi-disciplinary whole ecosystem studies currently being undertaken in the southern Dry Valleys region. A molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic revision of Lecidea s.l., lichens is being undertaken by an Austrian PhD student and should be completed late 2009. Laboratory activity/analysis: Morphological examination of specimens from AAT and Ross Sea Sector is ongoing. As material is fully identified the data is prepared as herbarium packets and incorporated into the Herbarium (ADT - being transferred to the Tasmanian Herbarium HO) and to the AAD Data Centre.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2009-04-30 - record updated by Dave Connell from information provided in the progress report. 2010-04-19 - record updated by Dave Connell from information provided in the progress report. 2019-01-15 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2022-05-02 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.
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- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
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- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 0e14266a-4125-44df-aace-e3b00d456902
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2022-05-02T02:40:37
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Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/LGP
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2005-04-04T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2022-05-02
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile