Glacier Retreat Results in Loss of Fungal Diversity

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Masaharu Tsuji, Warwick F. Vincent, Yukiko Tanabe, Masaki Uchida
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: glacier retreat; walker glacier; endangered fungi; climate change; mycoflora; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Walker Glacier; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031617

Walker Glacier near the northern coast of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic (terrestrial margin of the ‘Last Ice Area’) is undergoing rapid ice attrition in response to climate change. We applied culture and molecular methods to investigate fungal diversity at the terminus of this glacier...