Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI:10.1002/hyp.6113 Microbial habitat dynamics and ablation control on the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf

• Main Authors: Derek R. Mueller, Warwick F. Vincent
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Sons; Ltd; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.564.5223; http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/warwickvincent/PDFfiles/191.pdf

The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf (83°020N, 74°000W) is an 40 m thick ice feature that occupies a large embayment along Canada’s northernmost coast. Sediments cover 10 % of its surface and provide a habitat for diverse microbial communities. These assemblages form an organo-sedimentary matrix (microbial mat)...