Diversity and potential sources of microbiota associated with snow on western portions of the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Main Author: NSF Arctic Data Center
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2014
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > BACTERIA/ARCHAEA; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > RIVER ICE; EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > DISCHARGE/FLOW; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CHEMICAL METERS/ANALYZERS > FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > CHEMICAL METERS/ANALYZERS > ADS > AUTOMATED DNA SEQUENCER; FIELD SURVEY; STATION; 1 METER TO 30 METERS; DAILY TO WEEKLY; biota; geoscientificInformation; Arctic; Colleen; Greenland; Sletten; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A27S6J

Snow overlays the majority of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). However, there is very little information available on the microbiological assemblages that are associated with this vast and climate-sensitive landscape. In this study, the structure and diversity of snow microbial assemblages from two r...