Microbiology and vegetation of micro-oases and polar desert, Haughton Impact Crater, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Main Authors: Cockell, Charles S., Lee, Pascal, Schuerger, Andrew C., Hidalgo, Loretta, Jones, Jeff A., Stokes, M. Dale
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Colorado 2001
• Subjects: Botany; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Devon Island; Bathurst Island; Haughton River; Antarctic and Alpine Research; polar desert
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18543/; http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/journal_issues/abstract.php?id=2047

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...