Diversity and abundance of microbial assemblages in glacial meltwaters at the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet

• Main Author: NSF Arctic Data Center
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2014
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ICE SHEETS; EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > RIVER ICE; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > BACTERIA/ARCHAEA; 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; Greenland; Kangerlussuaq; Pituffik; Sletten; glacier; Ice Sheet; Thule
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2CG9T

Microbial processes that mineralize organic carbon and enhance solute production at the bed of polar ice sheets could be of a magnitude sufficient to affect global elemental cycles. To investigate the biogeochemistry of polar glacial meltwater microbial ecosystems, we analyzed water discharged durin...