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Name: mike
Status: educator
Grade: N/A
Location: WI
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Date: 10/28/2005
Question:
Is their any type of vegetion by the polar ice caps?

Replies:
Yes, including algae, lichens, bryophytes (mosses), kelp, etc.

The following should be helpful:

http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=1544

http://nature.ac.uk/browse/581.998.html

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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