Investigating the Effects of Permafrost Thaw on Fungal Communities from Subarctic Soil

• Main Author: Hernandez, Serena N.
• Other Authors: Mackelprang, Rachel, Bermudes, David, Guerra Amorim, Carlos
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: California State University, Northridge 2024
• Subjects: Dissertations; Academic > CSUN > Biology; Transplant; Active Layer; microbiology; in situ; permafrost; ITS2 sequencing; fungi; Holocene; Pleistocene; permafrost thaw; Kya; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12680/rb68xk876

Permafrost, perennially frozen ground at Earth's polar regions, underlies a large portion of Earth's surface and is thawing due to climate change. As global temperatures increase, millennia-old carbon that was previously trapped by frozen temperatures becomes available for microbial metabo...