Storage and export of microbial biomass across the western Greenland Ice Sheet

Microbes that colonise ice sheet surfaces are important to the carbon cycle, but their biomass and transport remains unquantified. Here, the authors reveal substantial microbial carbon fluxes across Greenland’s ice surface, in quantities that may sustain subglacial heterotrophs and fuel methanogenes...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: T. D. L. Irvine-Fynn, A. Edwards, I. T. Stevens, A. C. Mitchell, P. Bunting, J. E. Box, K. A. Cameron, J. M. Cook, K. Naegeli, S. M. E. Rassner, J. C. Ryan, M. Stibal, C. J. Williamson, A. Hubbard
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
Subjects:
Science
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Greenland
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24040-9
https://doaj.org/article/2ba5d9ce8e244a949088d073bdcfb63d
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Summary:Microbes that colonise ice sheet surfaces are important to the carbon cycle, but their biomass and transport remains unquantified. Here, the authors reveal substantial microbial carbon fluxes across Greenland’s ice surface, in quantities that may sustain subglacial heterotrophs and fuel methanogenesis.

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