Influence of Seasonal Environmental Variables on the Distribution of Presumptive Fecal Coliforms around an Antarctic Research Station

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Author: Hughes, Kevin A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2003
• Subjects: Public Health Microbiology; Adelaide Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Rothera; Rothera Point; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC169114; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12902283; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.69.8.4884-4891.2003

Factors affecting fecal microorganism survival and distribution in the Antarctic marine environment include solar radiation, water salinity, temperature, sea ice conditions, and fecal input by humans and local wildlife populations. This study assessed the influence of these factors on the distributi...