Pond diatom communities from the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, assessed from modern samples (2012-2016) and from historical samples collected during Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition (1908-1909)

• Main Authors: Kohler, Tyler, Cox, Aneliya, Darling, Joshua, Howkins, Adrian, Kopalová, Kateřina, Sokol, Eric, Gooseff, Michael, McKnight, Diane
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2021
• Subjects: Austral; McMurdo Dry Valleys; McMurdo Sound; McMurdo Station; Nimrod; Royds; Cape Royds; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/87ed680eb9a1283cea61a55e6bc6e96c; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-mcm.9038.1

We performed a field survey to characterize diatom communities living in the benthic microbial mats of ponds across the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica. Samples were collected during the Austral summers of 2012-13, 2013-14, and 2015-16 from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Cape Royds, and from Hut Ridge...