The Vestfold Hills are alive: characterising microbial and environmental dynamics in Old Wallow, eastern Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Devan S. Chelliah, Angelique E. Ray, Eden Zhang, Aleks Terauds, Belinda C. Ferrari
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024
• Subjects: Antarctica; soil; eukaryotes; microbial biodiversity; Old Wallow; gradient forest; Microbiology; QR1-502; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Elephant Seal
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1443491; https://doaj.org/article/077e9ec3f54c4c37b2c56e14ae519e0e

Old Wallow is an underexplored, hyper-arid coastal desert in Antarctica’s Vestfold Hills. Situated near an elephant seal wallow, we examined how stochastic nutrient inputs from the seal wallow affect soil communities amid environmental changes along a spatially explicit sampling transect. We hypothe...