Penguins significantly increased phosphine formation and phosphorus contribution in maritime Antarctic soils

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Zhu, Renbin, Wang, Qing, Ding, Wei, Wang, Can, Hou, Lijun, Ma, Dawei
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Guano; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4231338; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25394572; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07055

Most studies on phosphorus cycle in the natural environment focused on phosphates, with limited data available for the reduced phosphine (PH3). In this paper, matrix-bound phosphine (MBP), gaseous phosphine fluxes and phosphorus fractions in the soils were investigated from a penguin colony, a seal...