Life in a cold environment - Antarctica: Global Science from a Frozen Continent - page 190

Figure 6.19 Some sub-Antarctic terrestrial
habitats

(a)

Acaena magellanica
dominates large areas on South Georgia, its
hooked seeds allowing it to be spread by birds
(Credit: Peter Convey, BAS);

: (a) the dwarf shrub

(b) Tussac grass

Parodiochloa forms a coastal fringe

on South Georgia, and is a major nesting habitat
for burrowing petrels (Credit: D.W. H. Walton,
BAS);

flabellata

(c) Mats of the green alga Prasiola crispa ,

which is the only species able to grow on
the nutrient rich out ow from a penguin
rookery (Credit: Roger Worland, BAS);

(b)

(c)