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Mean fungal hyphal length was estimated in the surface horizons of a lithosol underDryas octopetala in a polar semi-desert ecosystem at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard (78°56′N, 11°50′E). This site is the most northerly from which such values have been collected and provides the only record from polar semi-desert sites in the Eurasian high Arctic. Although mean (± SE) fungal hyphal length was the lowest recorded in surface horizons of northern tundra (23±1 mg−1), it was of the same order as results from a Canadian high-Arctic soil and Antarctic soils of high pH and low moisture and organic matter content, with little vegetation cover.
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Robinson, C.H., Borisova, O.B., Callaghan, T.V. et al. Fungal hyphal length in litter ofDryas octopetala in a high-Arctic polar semi-desert, Svalbard. Polar Biol 16, 71–74 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388737
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