The Dynamic Arctic Snowpack Microbial Habitat
International audience Human-‐induced environmental changes are affecting cold ecosystems and predicted impacts include rapid warming, increased nitrogen and pollutant deposition, yet the effect of these on microbial communities and nutrient cycling is poorly understood. Much of the research concer...
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[SPI.NRJ]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electric power [SDE]Environmental Sciences Larose, Catherine Cecillon, Sébastien Maccario, Lorrie Sanguino Casado, Laura Dommergue, Aurélien Vogel, Timothy, M. The Dynamic Arctic Snowpack Microbial Habitat |
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International audience Human-‐induced environmental changes are affecting cold ecosystems and predicted impacts include rapid warming, increased nitrogen and pollutant deposition, yet the effect of these on microbial communities and nutrient cycling is poorly understood. Much of the research concerning Arctic microbial community structure and function stems from soil and permafrost studies, however relatively little is known about the snowpack. Seasonal snow cover extends over a third of the Earth's land surface, covering up to 47 million km2 and is also an important feature of the Arctic. Snow cover can be considered as a dynamic habitat of limited duration that acts as a medium and a mediator by transmitting and modifying interactions among microorganisms, plants, animals, nutrients, the atmosphere and soil. A growing body of evidence suggests that microbial communities play key roles in biogeochemical cycling in the snowpack, but little is known about the processes controlling their biogeographic distributions. We used metagenomic tools such as phylogenetic microarrays and high throughput sequencing to explore microbial community structure in samples collected from various Arctic snowpacks (North Pole, Greenland and Ny-‐Alesund) at different seasons (spring, summer, winter) and compared these to publicly available data from other ecosystems to evaluate the roles of niche-‐based processes vs spatial processes in explaining variations in community structure. The biogeography of Arctic microbial communities appears to be influenced by environmental factors, such as snow physics and chemistry relative to geographic distance. The results from this study offer insights into the mechanisms that generate and maintain diversity, such as speciation, extinction, dispersal and species interactions. |
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Ampère (AMPERE) École Centrale de Lyon (ECL) Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon) Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE) Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG) Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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The Dynamic Arctic Snowpack Microbial Habitat |
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The Dynamic Arctic Snowpack Microbial Habitat |
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ftunivlyon:oai:HAL:hal-00932225v1 2024-04-28T08:07:19+00:00 The Dynamic Arctic Snowpack Microbial Habitat Larose, Catherine Cecillon, Sébastien Maccario, Lorrie Sanguino Casado, Laura Dommergue, Aurélien Vogel, Timothy, M. Ampère (AMPERE) École Centrale de Lyon (ECL) Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon) Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE) Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG) Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Big Sky, Montana, United States 2013-09-08 https://hal.science/hal-00932225 en eng HAL CCSD hal-00932225 https://hal.science/hal-00932225 Program & Abstracts of the Fifth International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology PAM5 https://hal.science/hal-00932225 PAM5, Sep 2013, Big Sky, Montana, United States. pp.30 [SPI.NRJ]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electric power [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2013 ftunivlyon 2024-04-10T14:55:17Z International audience Human-‐induced environmental changes are affecting cold ecosystems and predicted impacts include rapid warming, increased nitrogen and pollutant deposition, yet the effect of these on microbial communities and nutrient cycling is poorly understood. Much of the research concerning Arctic microbial community structure and function stems from soil and permafrost studies, however relatively little is known about the snowpack. Seasonal snow cover extends over a third of the Earth's land surface, covering up to 47 million km2 and is also an important feature of the Arctic. Snow cover can be considered as a dynamic habitat of limited duration that acts as a medium and a mediator by transmitting and modifying interactions among microorganisms, plants, animals, nutrients, the atmosphere and soil. A growing body of evidence suggests that microbial communities play key roles in biogeochemical cycling in the snowpack, but little is known about the processes controlling their biogeographic distributions. We used metagenomic tools such as phylogenetic microarrays and high throughput sequencing to explore microbial community structure in samples collected from various Arctic snowpacks (North Pole, Greenland and Ny-‐Alesund) at different seasons (spring, summer, winter) and compared these to publicly available data from other ecosystems to evaluate the roles of niche-‐based processes vs spatial processes in explaining variations in community structure. The biogeography of Arctic microbial communities appears to be influenced by environmental factors, such as snow physics and chemistry relative to geographic distance. The results from this study offer insights into the mechanisms that generate and maintain diversity, such as speciation, extinction, dispersal and species interactions. Conference Object Arctic Greenland North Pole permafrost Université de Lyon: HAL |