Polar endoliths - an anti-correlation of climatic extremes and microbial diversity

• Published in: International Journal of Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Cockell, Charles S., McKay, Christopher P., Omelon, Christopher
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2003
• Subjects: Meteorology and Climatology; Biology and Microbiology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Arctic; Devon Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12628/

We examined the environmental stresses experienced by cyanobacteria living in endolithic gneissic habitats in the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic (75° N) and compared them with the endolithic habitat at the opposite latitude in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica (76° S). In...