Report on terrestrial biology research and logistics at Baia Terra Nova Station

Abstract

From December 4,1998 to January 15,1999,the author stayed at Baia Terra Nova Station (Italy) in Antarctica, as an exchange scientist. To compare the biodiversity between Syowa Station and the Baia Terra Nova Station area, many samples of mosses, lichens, algae and micro animals in the soil were collected, and the structure of moss vegetation was studied in various fields around the station. Some characteristic features of logistics at the station were also researched.