Investigating aerial diversity of non-fungal eukaryotes across a 40º latitudinal transect using DNA metabarcoding

• Published in: Austral Ecology
• Main Authors: Câmara, Paulo Eduardo Aguiar Saraiva, Lopes, Fabyano Alvares Cardoso, Bones, Fábio Leal Viana, Rodrigues, Luiz Antonio Costa, Carvalho-Silva, Micheline, Stech, Michael, Convey, Peter, Rosa, Luiz Henrique
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Ferraz; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/533114/; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.13332

The high number of bipolar and widespread bryophyte and microbial taxa in the Antarctic flora suggests the effective Long-Distance Dispersal (LDD) of spores and other propagules from lower latitudes and even the Northern Hemisphere to Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic regions. However, few studies ha...