Small-Scale Soil Microbial Community Heterogeneity Linked to Landform Historical Events on King George Island, Maritime Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Yumin Zhang, Lu Lu, Xulu Chang, Fan Jiang, Xiangdong Gao, Yifeng Yao, Chengsen Li, Shunan Cao, Qiming Zhou, Fang Peng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
• Subjects: soil-borne microbial community; small-scale spatial heterogeneity; landform; maritime Antarctica; Miseq sequencing platform; phospholipid fatty acid; Microbiology; QR1-502; King George Island; Fildes; Raised Beach; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03065; https://doaj.org/article/cde84cd868f24e308e553254a5b31184

Although research on microbial biogeography has made great progress in the past decade, distributions of terrestrial microbial communities in extreme environments such as Antarctica are not well understood. In addition, knowledge of whether and how historical contingencies affect microbial distribut...