Delineation of simple microecosystems associated with the quartz stone habitat in the Vestfold Hills

• Other Authors: LINE, MARTIN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), LINE, MARTIN (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS; EARTH SCIENCE; SOLID EARTH; BACTERIA/ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CYANOBACTERIA; QUARTZ; SOIL; VESTFOLD HILLS; FIELD SURVEYS; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/delineation-simple-microecosystems-vestfold-hills/700371; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/5876f9ff1b679; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_992; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Quartz stone sublithic microbial communities and underlying soil, retrieved from the Vestfold Hills were investigated using a variety of traditional and molecular methods. Although direct epifluorescent counts of the sublithic biota averaged 1.1 x 109 cells g-1 dry weight and underlying soil, 0.5 x...