McMurdo region meltwater ponds bacterioplankton survey

The investigation of bacterioplankton, mat and sediment microbial communities from the Bratina Island meltwater ponds in Late November 2009, January 2012 and January 2013 and from meltwater ponds at the mouth of the Miers Valley in January 2013 using 16S rRNA pyrosequencing. Ponds range in size from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Archer, Stephen
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: SCAR - Microbial Antarctic Resource System 2017
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/0zd8tb
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/c36e6f54-f1e0-42d0-88dc-0e8939214076
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Summary:The investigation of bacterioplankton, mat and sediment microbial communities from the Bratina Island meltwater ponds in Late November 2009, January 2012 and January 2013 and from meltwater ponds at the mouth of the Miers Valley in January 2013 using 16S rRNA pyrosequencing. Ponds range in size from 1 to several hundred square meters in surface area, 1-4m in depth and represent a broad variety of unique geochemistries. They are formed in the landscape depressions and are maintained from local ice and snow melt.