The inter-valley soil comparative survey: The ecology of dry valley edaphic microbial communities

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1046-1057

  Lee, Charles K ^a   Barbier, Béatrice A ^a,c   Bottos, Eric M ^a   McDonald, Ian R ^a   Cary, Stephen Craig ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Dry Valleys; geochemistry; mineral soil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ICE; RNA 16S;

ARID REGION; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL SURVEY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DESICCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; DESICCATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ICE; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859885342     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.170     Document Type: Article

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