Diversity, drivers and dispersal of East Antarctic soil microbiota

• Main Author: Zhang, Eden
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UNSW Sydney 2021
• Subjects: Antarctica; Soil Microbiome; Microbial Ecology; Climate Change; 4106 Soil sciences; 310703 Microbial ecology; Antarctic; Old Wallow; Rookery Lake; The Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; polar desert
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/2044; http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/100134

Microbes are the life support system of the biosphere. Their metabolic activities have been tightly linked to establishing and maintaining core ecosystem processes around the globe, including the polar deserts of terrestrial Antarctica. Shaped by the continent’s extreme abiotic constraints and physi...