MATERIAL AND METHODS Site Descriptions and Sampling

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• Subjects: Arctic
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The expedition TNW-99 was dedicated to the search for as-pects of life in the Canadian Arctic at different scales (ERIK-SEN et al. 2006). Preliminary results have been published in the cruise report (BÖLTER 1999, GRÖNLUND 1999), as well as data on soil algae (BÖLTER 2001) and soil (BÖLTER et al. 2006). The working group for small-scale processes thus put its focus on the life of microbial organisms, i.e., bacteria and fungi. Our aim was to provide data on sub-surface biomass in correlation with the main focus of other working groups, namely, various higher plants (ERIKSEN et al. 2006, LARSSON & LEVESQUE 2002). The data set provided here is, then, another piece of the