Microbial Communities in Volcanic Glacier Ecosystems
Glaciers constitute a polyextremophilic environment characterized by low temperatures, high solar radiation, a lack of nutrients, and low water availability. However, glaciers located in volcanic regions have special characteristics, since the volcanic foci provide them with heat and nutrients that...
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crfrontiers:10.3389/fmicb.2022.825632 2024-02-11T09:58:10+01:00 Microbial Communities in Volcanic Glacier Ecosystems Garcia-Lopez, Eva Ruiz-Blas, Fatima Sanchez-Casanova, Silvia Peña Perez, Sonia Martin-Cerezo, Maria Luisa Cid, Cristina 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.825632 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.825632/full unknown Frontiers Media SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Frontiers in Microbiology volume 13 ISSN 1664-302X Microbiology (medical) Microbiology journal-article 2022 crfrontiers https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.825632 2024-01-26T09:56:09Z Glaciers constitute a polyextremophilic environment characterized by low temperatures, high solar radiation, a lack of nutrients, and low water availability. However, glaciers located in volcanic regions have special characteristics, since the volcanic foci provide them with heat and nutrients that allow the growth of microbial communities highly adapted to this environment. Most of the studies on these glacial ecosystems have been carried out in volcanic environments in the northern hemisphere, including Iceland and the Pacific Northwest. To better know, the microbial diversity of the underexplored glacial ecosystems and to check what their specific characteristics were, we studied the structure of bacterial communities living in volcanic glaciers in Deception Island, Antarctica, and in the Kamchatka peninsula. In addition to geographic coordinates, many other glacier environmental factors (like volcanic activity, altitude, temperature, pH, or ice chemical composition) that can influence the diversity and distribution of microbial communities were considered in this study. Finally, using their taxonomic assignments, an attempt was made to compare how different or similar are the biogeochemical cycles in which these microbiomes are involved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Deception Island glacier Iceland Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula Frontiers (Publisher) Deception Island ENVELOPE(-60.633,-60.633,-62.950,-62.950) Kamchatka Peninsula ENVELOPE(160.000,160.000,56.000,56.000) Pacific Frontiers in Microbiology 13 |
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Glaciers constitute a polyextremophilic environment characterized by low temperatures, high solar radiation, a lack of nutrients, and low water availability. However, glaciers located in volcanic regions have special characteristics, since the volcanic foci provide them with heat and nutrients that allow the growth of microbial communities highly adapted to this environment. Most of the studies on these glacial ecosystems have been carried out in volcanic environments in the northern hemisphere, including Iceland and the Pacific Northwest. To better know, the microbial diversity of the underexplored glacial ecosystems and to check what their specific characteristics were, we studied the structure of bacterial communities living in volcanic glaciers in Deception Island, Antarctica, and in the Kamchatka peninsula. In addition to geographic coordinates, many other glacier environmental factors (like volcanic activity, altitude, temperature, pH, or ice chemical composition) that can influence the diversity and distribution of microbial communities were considered in this study. Finally, using their taxonomic assignments, an attempt was made to compare how different or similar are the biogeochemical cycles in which these microbiomes are involved. |
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Garcia-Lopez, Eva Ruiz-Blas, Fatima Sanchez-Casanova, Silvia Peña Perez, Sonia Martin-Cerezo, Maria Luisa Cid, Cristina |
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Garcia-Lopez, Eva Ruiz-Blas, Fatima Sanchez-Casanova, Silvia Peña Perez, Sonia Martin-Cerezo, Maria Luisa Cid, Cristina |
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Microbial Communities in Volcanic Glacier Ecosystems |
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Microbial Communities in Volcanic Glacier Ecosystems |
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Microbial Communities in Volcanic Glacier Ecosystems |
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Microbial Communities in Volcanic Glacier Ecosystems |
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Microbial Communities in Volcanic Glacier Ecosystems |
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microbial communities in volcanic glacier ecosystems |
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Antarc* Antarctica Deception Island glacier Iceland Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula |
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