Quantatative analysis of microbial abundance within Arctic fjord sediments assessed through direct counting

• Main Author: Swystun, Alex Taylor
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2017
• Subjects: Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology; Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Arctic; Svalbard; Van Keulenfjorden; Climate change; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden
• Online Access: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_eureca/2017/artsandsciences/10; https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1132&context=utk_eureca

Microbes found in the marine sediments are responsible for the production of nearly half of the carbon dioxide found in the atmosphere (Arrigo, 2005). The fjords of Svalbard (79°N) are not considered typical marine sediments because high iron content influences unique subsurface redox chemistry. Rad...