Diversity of Viridiplantae DNA present on rock surfaces in the Ellsworth Mountains, continental Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Câmara, Paulo E. A. S., de Menezes, Graciéle C. A., Oliveira, Fábio S., Souza, Caroline Delpupo, Amorim, Eduardo T., Schaefer, Carlos E. G. R., Convey, Peter, Pinto, Otavio H. B., Carvalho-Silva, Micheline, Rosa, Luiz H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2022
• Subjects: Botany; Austral; Ellsworth Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531941/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-022-03021-8

The Ellsworth Mountains experience frigid desert conditions. No macroscopic vegetation is present, with only very few published records of microalgae, and the range has received virtually no formal biological survey. Rocks, including gypsum crusts, were sampled from five specific locations in part o...