Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

The soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica are an extreme polar desert, inhabited exclusively by microscopic taxa. This region is on the threshold of anticipated climate change, with glacial melt, permafrost thaw, and the melting of massive buried ice increasing liquid water availability and m...

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Main Authors: Heather N Buelow, Ara S Kooser, David J Van Horn, John E Barrett, Michael N Gooseff, Egbert Schwartz, Cristina D Takacs-Vesbach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
microbial ecology
metatranscriptomics
Antarctica
Soils in hyper-arid regions
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01040/full

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