Bacteria, fungi and protozoa in Signy Island soils compared with those from a temperate moorland

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Heal, O.W., Bailey, A.D., Latter, P.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Royal Society 1967
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Signy Island; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526668/; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0011

During the past 100 years many papers have been published on Antarctic microbiology in general and that of the soil, snow and ice in particular. However, there are still contradictory statements in the recent literature concerning the scarcity or abundance of micro-organisms in Antarctic soil, the s...