Microbial Community Structure in Lake and Wetland Sediments from a High Arctic Polar Desert Revealed by Targeted Transcriptomics

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Stoeva, Magdalena K., Aris-Brosou, Stéphane, Chételat, John, Hintelmann, Holger, Pelletier, Philip, Poulain, Alexandre J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2014
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Canada; Cornwallis; Cornwallis Island; polar desert
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940601; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24594936; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089531

While microbial communities play a key role in the geochemical cycling of nutrients and contaminants in anaerobic freshwater sediments, their structure and activity in polar desert ecosystems are still poorly understood, both across heterogeneous freshwater environments such as lakes and wetlands, a...