Local and regional influences over soil microbial metacommunities in the Transantarctic Mountains

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Sokol, Eric R., Herbold, Craig W., Lee, Charles K., Cary, S. Craig, Barrett, J. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Beardmore; Beardmore Glacier; East Antarctica; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/es13-00136.1; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1890%2FES13-00136.1; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES13-00136.1

The metacommunity concept provides a useful framework to assess the influence of local and regional controls over diversity patterns. Culture‐independent studies of soil microbial communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica (77° S) have shown that bacterial diversity is related to soil...