Rock weathering creates oases of life in a High Arctic desert

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 293-303

  Borin, Sara ^a   Ventura, Stefano ^b   Tambone, Fulvia ^a   Mapelli, Francesca ^a   Schubotz, Florence ^c   Brusetti, Lorenzo ^a,f   Scaglia, Barbara ^a   D'Acqui, Luigi P ^b   Solheim, Bjørn ^d   Turicchia, Silvia ^b   Marasco, Ramona ^a   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^c   Baldi, Franco ^e   Adani, Fabrizio ^a   Daffonchio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^f FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ICE COVER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SOIL; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CARBON; CYANOBACTERIA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ICE COVER; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SVALBARD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77649090656     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02059.x     Document Type: Article

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