Key microbial drivers in Antarctic aquatic environments
Antarctica is arguably the world's most important continent for influencing the Earth's climate and ocean ecosystem function. The unique physico-chemical properties of the Southern Ocean enable high levels of microbial primary production to occur. This not only forms the base of a signific...
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ftunivtsydney:oai:opus.lib.uts.edu.au:10453/117635 2023-05-15T13:51:50+02:00 Key microbial drivers in Antarctic aquatic environments Wilkins, D Yau, S Williams, TJ Allen, MA Brown, MV Demaere, MZ Lauro, FM Cavicchioli, R 2013-05-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10453/117635 unknown FEMS Microbiology Reviews 10.1111/1574-6976.12007 FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2013, 37 (3), pp. 303 - 335 0168-6445 http://hdl.handle.net/10453/117635 Microbiology Carbon Dioxide Water Microbiology Biodiversity Biomass Antarctic Regions Metagenome Journal Article 2013 ftunivtsydney 2022-03-13T14:02:04Z Antarctica is arguably the world's most important continent for influencing the Earth's climate and ocean ecosystem function. The unique physico-chemical properties of the Southern Ocean enable high levels of microbial primary production to occur. This not only forms the base of a significant fraction of the global oceanic food web, but leads to the sequestration of anthropogenic CO2 and its transport to marine sediments, thereby removing it from the atmosphere; the Southern Ocean accounts for ~ 30% of global ocean uptake of CO2 despite representing ~ 10% of the total surface area of the global ocean. The Antarctic continent itself harbors some liquid water, including a remarkably diverse range of surface and subglacial lakes. Being one of the remaining natural frontiers, Antarctica delivers the paradox of needing to be protected from disturbance while requiring scientific endeavor to discover what is indigenous and learn how best to protect it. Moreover, like many natural environments on Earth, in Antarctica, microorganisms dominate the genetic pool and biomass of the colonizable niches and play the key roles in maintaining proper ecosystem function. This review puts into perspective insight that has been and can be gained about Antarctica's aquatic microbiota using molecular biology, and in particular, metagenomic approaches. Antarctica is arguably the world's most important continent for influencing the Earth's climate and ocean ecosystem function, and this review puts into perspective the insight that has been and can be gained about Antarctica's aquatic microbiota by using molecular biology, and in particular, metagenomic approaches. © 2012 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Southern Ocean University of Technology Sydney: OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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Antarctica is arguably the world's most important continent for influencing the Earth's climate and ocean ecosystem function. The unique physico-chemical properties of the Southern Ocean enable high levels of microbial primary production to occur. This not only forms the base of a significant fraction of the global oceanic food web, but leads to the sequestration of anthropogenic CO2 and its transport to marine sediments, thereby removing it from the atmosphere; the Southern Ocean accounts for ~ 30% of global ocean uptake of CO2 despite representing ~ 10% of the total surface area of the global ocean. The Antarctic continent itself harbors some liquid water, including a remarkably diverse range of surface and subglacial lakes. Being one of the remaining natural frontiers, Antarctica delivers the paradox of needing to be protected from disturbance while requiring scientific endeavor to discover what is indigenous and learn how best to protect it. Moreover, like many natural environments on Earth, in Antarctica, microorganisms dominate the genetic pool and biomass of the colonizable niches and play the key roles in maintaining proper ecosystem function. This review puts into perspective insight that has been and can be gained about Antarctica's aquatic microbiota using molecular biology, and in particular, metagenomic approaches. Antarctica is arguably the world's most important continent for influencing the Earth's climate and ocean ecosystem function, and this review puts into perspective the insight that has been and can be gained about Antarctica's aquatic microbiota by using molecular biology, and in particular, metagenomic approaches. © 2012 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. |
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Wilkins, D Yau, S Williams, TJ Allen, MA Brown, MV Demaere, MZ Lauro, FM Cavicchioli, R |
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Key microbial drivers in Antarctic aquatic environments |
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Key microbial drivers in Antarctic aquatic environments |
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FEMS Microbiology Reviews 10.1111/1574-6976.12007 FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2013, 37 (3), pp. 303 - 335 0168-6445 http://hdl.handle.net/10453/117635 |
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