Microbial communities in dark oligotrophic volcanic ice cave ecosystems of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica.

• Main Authors: Tebo, Bradley M, Davis, Richard E, Anitori, Roberto P, Connell, Laurie B, Schiffman, Peter, Staudigel, Hubert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2015
• Subjects: RubisCO; carbon monoxide; chemolithoautotrophy; oligotrophy; ribulose-1; 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase; Environmental Science and Management; Soil Sciences; Microbiology; Calvin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gr9z5d5

The Earth's crust hosts a subsurface, dark, and oligotrophic biosphere that is poorly understood in terms of the energy supporting its biomass production and impact on food webs at the Earth's surface. Dark oligotrophic volcanic ecosystems (DOVEs) are good environments for investigations o...