SSF has received a report from the Czech research team working in
Petuniabukta. Work has been conducted in the fields of botany, zoology and
climatology.
Research was conducted under the auspices of the project “Biological and
climate diversity of the central part of the Svalbard Arctic archipelago” -
the Czech contribution to the Network for ARCtic Climate and Biological
DIVersity Studies (ARCDIV), an international multidisciplinary IPY
initiative.
From June 29 to August 20, 2009 seventeen researchers from Czech and Belgian
institutions (University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice - Josef
Elster, Oleg Ditrich, Oldřich Řičan, Tomáš Tyml, Andrea Bednářová, Alena
Bartošová and Martin Hais; Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the
Czech
Republic - Tomáš Hájek, Karel Prach, Alexandra Bernardová, Jana Kvíderová,
Otakar Strunecký, Alexeii Redchenko; Masaryk University in Brno - Kamil
Láska, Miloš Barták, and Olga Bohuslavová; and University in Liege, Belgium
- Zorigto Namsaraev) conducted the field research.
Download the report
here (6.46
MB).
(Source: Josef Elster, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice)
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Open top chambers to study effects of climate change on vegetation
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