Microbial biodiversity of thermophilic communities in hot mineral soils of Tramway Ridge, Mount Erebus, Antarctica

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Soo, Rochelle M., Wood, Susanna A., Grzymski, Joseph J., McDonald, Ian R., Cary, S. Craig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Mount Erebus; Tramway Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01859.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1462-2920.2009.01859.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01859.x/fullpdf

Summary Tramway Ridge, located near the summit of Mount Erebus in Antarctica, is probably the most remote geothermal soil habitat on Earth. Steam fumaroles maintain moist, hot soil environments creating extreme local physicochemical differentials. In this study a culture‐independent approach combini...