1. Anisimov O, Fitzharris BB, Hagen JO, Jefferies B, Marchant H, Nelson F, Prowse T, Vaughan D (2001) Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic). In: McCarthy JJ, Canziani OF, Leary NA, Dokken DJ, White KS (eds) Climate change 2001: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 801–841
2. Bednarek-Ochyra H, Vána J, Ochyra R, Lewis Smith RI (2000) The liverwort flora of Antarctica. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow
3. Bewley J (1979) Physiological aspects of desiccation tolerance. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 30:195–238
4. Block W, Smith RIL, Kennedy AD (2009) Strategies of survival and resource exploitation in the Antarctic fellfield ecosystem. Biol Rev 84:449–484
5. Chen JL, Wilson CR, Tapley BD, Blankenship D, Young D (2008) Antarctic regional ice loss rates from GRACE. Earth Planet Sci Lett 266:140–148