Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice

• Main Author: Cowie, Rebecca Olivia MacLennan (11682955)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Microbial ecology; Prokaryotic diversity; School: School of Biological Sciences; 069999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Marsden: 270307 Microbial Ecology; Degree Discipline: Ecology and Biodiversity; Degree Level: Doctoral; Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Marsden; Antarc*; ice core; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.16992562.v1

Antarctic sea ice is an important feature of the southern ocean where at its maximum it can cover 8 % of the Southern Hemisphere. It provides a stable environment for the colonisation of diverse and highly specialised microbes which play a central role in the assimilation and regulation of energy th...