Response of Antarctic cryoconite microbial communities to light

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Bagshaw, Elizabeth, Wadham, Jemma L., Tranter, Martyn, Perkins, Rupert Gordon, Morgan, Alistair, Williamson, Christopher J., Fountain, Andrew G., Fitzsimons, Sean, Dubnick, Ashley
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Joyce Glacier; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89434/; https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw076; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89434/1/fiw076.full.pdf

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...