Antarctic microbial communities in mineral deposits on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands

• Main Authors: Ganzert, L., Lipski, A., Wagner, Dirk
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Arctic; Austral; Livingston Island; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Climate change; permafrost
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/18559/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.30217

Livingston Island, located at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, is characterised by an oceanic polar climate with temperatures above 0°C during the austral summer and a mean annual precipitation between 400 and 500 mm. Under these conditions a soil formation can be observed and lichens, mosses and...