THE DANISH SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO PATAGONIA AND TIERRA DEL FUEGO 1978–1979

Madsen, H. B., Nielsen, E. S., odum, S. (eds.): The Danish Scientific Expedition to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego 1978–1979. Geografisk Tidsskrift 80: 1–28, June 1980. The paper surveys geographical, botanical and zoological projects dealt with during six months of travelling and fieldwork in the Argentinean and Chilean Andes and adjacent lowlands: Soil development in relation to climate. General entomological and botanical studies and collecting work. Entomological collecting especially within certain families of Lepidoptera. Studies on snowbed vegetation an alpine lifeforms. Collecting of seed of Araucaria for provenance trials and of Nothofagus seedlings for forestry experiments on the Faroe Isles. Collecting of Hordeum, Plantago and Solanum for taxonomie studies and experiments.