Partitioning Effects during Terminal Carbon and Electron Flow in Sediments of a Low-Salinity Meltwater Pond near Bratina Island, McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Mountfort, Douglas O., Kaspar, Heinrich F., Downes, Malcolm, Asher, Rodney A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 1999
• Subjects: General Microbial Ecology; Bratina Island; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC91748; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10584008

A study of anaerobic sediments below cyanobacterial mats of a low-salinity meltwater pond called Orange Pond on the McMurdo Ice Shelf at temperatures simulating those in the summer season (<5°C) revealed that both sulfate reduction and methane production were important terminal anaerobic processe...