The Pyramid Trough Wetland: Environmental and biological diversity in a newly created Antarctic protected area

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 356-366

  Jungblut, Anne D ^a   Wood, Susanna A ^b,c   Hawes, Ian ^d   Webster Brown, Jenny ^d   Harris, Colin ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e Environmental Research and Assessment   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Antarctica; Cyanobacteria; Microbial mat; Wetland

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 16S;

ANTARCTIC TREATY; CYANOBACTERIUM; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; INFLOW; MELTWATER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MORPHOTYPE; POND; PROTECTED AREA; WETLAND;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; RNA GENE; WETLAND;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIBOTYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WETLANDS;

ANTARCTICA;

CHROOCOCCALES; CYANOBACTERIA; OSCILLATORIALES;

EID: 84867728411     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01380.x     Document Type: Article

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