The dynamic bacterial communities of a melting High Arctic glacier snowpack

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1814-1826

  Hell, Katherina ^a   Edwards, Arwyn ^b   Zarsky, Jakub ^a   Podmirseg, Sabine M ^a   Girdwood, Susan ^b   Pachebat, Justin A ^b   Insam, Heribert ^a   Sattler, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Betaproteobacteria; glacier; nitrogen cycling; snow melt; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GLACIER; HABITAT TYPE; ICE SHEET; LAND SURFACE; MELTING; NITROGEN CYCLE; RNA; SNOWPACK; SURFACE AREA;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; GENETICS; ICE COVER; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FREEZING; ICE COVER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SVALBARD;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; POLAROMONAS;

EID: 84883199674     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.51     Document Type: Article

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