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Fields of interest:

• Phytogeography
• Bryophytes
• Lichens
• Bryophyte systematics, ecology and physiology
• Antarctic biodiversity
• Arctic ecology, wetland cryptogams
  
  

Recent publications :

G.A. Laursen and R.D. Seppelt:
Common Interior Alaskan Cryptogams, Fungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds, Mosses, and Liverworts,
University of Alaska Press, (2009)

A. Burne, K.G. Ryan and R.D. Seppelt:
Flavonoid levels in herbarium specimens of the Antarctic moss Bryum argenteum reflect changes in historical ozone depletion,
(In review).

N. Cannone and R.D. Seppelt:
A preliminary floristic classification of central and northern Victoria land vegetation, continental Antarctica,
Antarctic Science, (2008)

R.D. Seppelt, R.R. Ireland and H. Robinson:
Ditrichum,
Flora of North America north of Mexico, Vol. 27, (2007), pp. 450-458.

B. Wagner and R.D. Seppelt:
Deep-water occurrence of the moss Bryum pseudotriquetrum in Radok Lake, Amery Oasis, East Antarctica,
Polar Biology, Vol. 29, (2006), pp. 791-795.

G. Kantvilas and R.D. Seppelt:
Polysporina frigida sp. nov. from Antarctica,
Lichenologist, Vol. 38(2), (2006), pp. 109-113.

S. Pannewitz, T.G.A. Green, M. Schlensog, R.D. Seppelt and L. Sancho:
Photosynthetic performance of Xanthoria mawsonii Dodge in coastal habitats, Ross Sea region, continental Antarctica,
Antarctic Science, Vol. 17(3), (2005), pp. 341-352.

S. Pannewitz, K. Maysek, M. Schlensog, R.D. Seppelt, L. Sancho, B. Schroeter, R. Türk and T.G.A Green:
The photosynthetic response of bryophytes to CO2 concentrations, PPFD, temperature and water content measured at coastal sites, Ross Sea, Antarctica,
Polar Biology, Vol. 26, (2005), pp. 545-551.

G.A. Laursen, R.D. Seppelt and M. Hallam:
Cycles in the forest: Mammals, Mushrooms, Mycophagy, Mycoses and Mycorrhizae,
Alaska Park Science, (2003), pp. 12-19.

L. Beyer, M. Bölter and R.D. Seppelt:
Nutrient and thermal regime, microbial biomass, and vegetation of antarctic soils in the Windmill Islands region of east Antarctica (Wilkes Land),
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 32, (2000), pp. 30-39.