Remote sensing reveals antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink

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• who: Andrew Gray from the University of , British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Madingley Road, Cambridge , ET, UK. have published the research: Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink, in the Journal: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS NATURE COMMUNICATIONS of 22/01/2018
• what: The authors show that the Antarctic Peninsula supports at least 1.3 × 103 tonnes (dry mass) of green snow algae, covering approximately 1.9 km2.
• how: To validate the approach remote sensing was combined with in situ measurements of spectral reflectance factors cell concentration dry biomass gas exchange and . . .
  

   

  

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