Assessment of soil bacterial communities on Alexander Island (in the maritime and continental Antarctic transitional zone)

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Chong, Chun Wie, Convey, Peter, Pearce, David, Tan, Irene
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2012
• Subjects: C500 Microbiology; Alexander Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/25164/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-011-1084-0

Despite an increasing number of Antarctic soil diversity assessments, understanding of the bacterial community composition in the arid soil environments of the maritime/continental Antarctic transitional zone remains lacking. Most documented microbiological studies had focused on either the wetter e...