Influence of microorganisms on initial soil formation along a glacier forefield on King George Island, maritime Antarctica

• Main Authors: Krauze, Patryk, Wagner, Dirk, Spinola, Diogo Noses, Kühn, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Ecology Glacier; King George Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2020-203; https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-203/

Compared to the 1970s, the edge of the Ecology Glacier on King George Island, maritime Antarctica, is positioned more than 500 m inwards, exposing a large area of new terrain to soil-forming processes and periglacial climate for more than 40 years. To gain information on the state of soil formation...