The warm ground and its vegetation are of interest to botanists , physiologists and microbiologists , and serve as a reference site for ecological research .
Mount Erebus provides one of only three known high - altitude areas of fumarolic activity and associated vegetation in the Antarctic .
The warm ground and Antarctic 's vegetation are of interest to botanists , physiologists and microbiologists , and serve as a reference site for ecological research .
Mount Erebus provides one of only three known high - altitude areas of fumarolic activity and associated vegetation in the Antarctic .