Microbiology and vegetation of micro-oases and polar desert, Haughton Impact Crater, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada
The input of nutrients into arctic polar deserts, aided by some physical processes, can result in localized areas of high biological productivity--"micro-oases." We examined the vegetation cover, and microbial and nematode abundance in the polar desert and in 38 micro-oases at the Haughton...
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University of Colorado
2001
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18543/ http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/journal_issues/abstract.php?id=2047 |