Response of Antarctic cryoconite microbial communities to light

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Bagshaw, Elizabeth A., Wadham, Jemma L., Tranter, Martyn, Perkins, Rupert, Morgan, Alistair, Williamson, Christopher J., Fountain, Andrew G, Fitzsimons, Sean, Dubnick, Ashley J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Cryoconite; Glaciers; PAR; Photophysiology; Antarctic; Arctic; Joyce Glacier; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/a60eaa01-3f04-4ff3-ad26-19767a428e35; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/a60eaa01-3f04-4ff3-ad26-19767a428e35; https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw076; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/89444677/fiw076.full.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84973126866&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Microbial communities on polar glacier surfaces are found dispersed on the ice surface, or concentrated in cryoconite holes and cryolakes, which are accumulations of debris covered by a layer of ice for some or all of the year. The ice lid limits the penetration of photosynthetically available radia...