Islands in the sand : are all hypolithic microbial communities the same?

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Lebre, Pedro H., Bottos, Eric, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Hogg, Ian D., Cowan, Don A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2021
• Subjects: Core community; Functional variability; Dispersal limitation; Phylogenetic turnover; Small-scale heterogeneity; Hypolithon; East Antarctica; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; New Harbour; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79414; https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa216

Hypolithic microbial communities (hypolithons) are complex assemblages of phototrophic and heterotrophic organisms associated with the ventral surfaces of translucent minerals embedded in soil surfaces. Past studies on the assembly, structure and function of hypolithic communities have tended to use...