The spatial structures of hypolithic communities in the Dry Valleys of East Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: De los Ríos, Asunción, Cary, Craig, Cowan, Don A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: Antarctica; Biofilm; Cyanobacteria; Hypoliths; Moss; McMurdo Dry Valleys; East Antarctica; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); New Zealand; Miers; Miers Valley; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43458; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-014-1564-0

Hypolithic communities represent important reservoirs of microbial life in hyper-arid deserts. A number of studies on the diversity and ecology of these communities from different geographic areas have been reported in the past decade, but the spatial distribution of the different components of thes...