The first map of the Green Surfaces of Antarctica has been set

The Antarctic is one of the most unwirtlichsten Orte für das Leben auf der ErdeThe fried lakes, the uninhibited and unhindered climate and the rapid filling of the upper surface covered with ice make the flora of these Ortes truly rare.

But this Continent non-climatic changesand one of the works of art is art and well-being, who seine Oberfläche immer greener wird. Make sure that the vegetation and the vegetation get information about the Forscher, the first baseline with Help from Satellites in the maps, one of those Changes with documentation.

This vegetation map contains the available geodata about the vegetation in the area and offers a tool for the best nature conservation plans and grand angelic biogeographic designs.

After analysis a greater Anzahl von Sentinel-2 satellite images which have been taken into account in 2017 and 2023, are present Card with 10 m of natural light for photosynthetic life in terrestrial and cryospheric living spaces on the Antarctic continent, the Maritime Archipelago, and inland south of 60°S.

The map shows that most of the vegetation in the maritime Antarctic has been foundThe warmer and wetter are like the continental Antarctic water. If 44.2 square kilometers of vegetation were collected, 0.12% of the ice-free Fläche of the continents were planted.

The art of vegetation is probably and right from gefäßpflanzen, Moss, Green algae up to zu Flechten in ice-free zones. I am highly gifted Green snowan Algeria, which waits in the snow and 7.5% of the best vegetative vegetation.

Thinking about the future

In recent years do you have that Temperature at the highest surface on the western Antarctic Halbinsel It is a dream to achieve global breakthrough as soon as possible. Because this is small, this means that the vegetation is formed in the räumlichen Verteilung and the Wachstumsmustern der terrestrial Vegetation, in particular between the two a single unique Blütenpflanzen.

Both times there are warm weather in the region Könnte das schmelzende Demand die eisvrij Fläche on the total surface at 25 Prozent and on the Antarctic Halbinsel at 300 Prozent enlargeWenn no Änderungen vorgenommen become. Since this is more land for the new life form, it is urgent to provide information about its identification and documentation in the sense of the problem.

Closing prosecutions on the map

The largest portion of vegetation is found in the maritime Antarctic (84.8%)consists of 83% of the Green Plants (Farm Plants, Moose and Algae), 98% of the Grass and 70% of the Green Algae.

Obwohl grüne Schneealgen nur 7,5 Prozent der gesamten entdeckten Vegetationsfläche ausmachen, zegen sie een ähnliches Verteilungsmuster who the terrestrial Vegetation auf dem gesamten Kontinent. “We fan these Algae in isolated Flecken on Schelfeisoften in the Nähe von Kaiserpenguin colonies, who on the Larsen-Schelfeis in the Nähe der Dolleman-Colony and on the Ronne-Schelfeis in the Nähe der Smith- and Gould-Colonies”, the Forscher in der Studie explains.

Etwa 40 Prozent der grünen Vegetation und Flechten in eisfreien Gebieten wurden in eenem Umkreis von 5 km um wichtige Vogelschutzgebiete (Important Bird Areas, IBA) in the Antarktis entdeckt, wie z. B. Sea bee hook in Kap Hallett and Shirley Island on the Windmill Islands, the big problems of Adelie penguin colonies are looming.

These Ergebnisse bestätigen die räumliche View of Vegetation and the Bird Colony and many more, these interesting mapping studies of these biogeographic studies can provide some new and better results, but they cannot use IBAs.

Source:

Walshaw, CV and all. A satellite-based baseline of photosynthetic life in Antarctica. Nature Geosciencesversion 17, 2024.