Local and regional influences over soil microbial metacommunities in the Transantarctic Mountains

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Sokol, Eric R., Herbold, Craig W., Lee, Charles Kai-Wu, Cary, S. Craig, Barrett, J.E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Ecology; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Antarctica; beta diversity; biogeography; diversity partitioning; McMurdo Dry Valleys; metacommunities; soil microbial ecology; Transantarctic Mountains; variation partitioning; SOUTHERN VICTORIA LAND; ROSS SEA REGION; CYANOBACTERIAL DIVERSITY; TAYLOR VALLEY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL DATA; DISPERSAL; Beardmore; Beardmore Glacier; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; Taylor Valley; Victoria Land; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12593; https://doi.org/10.1890/ES13-00136.1

The metacommunity concept provides a useful framework to assess the influence of local and regional controls over diversity patterns. Culture‐independent studies of soil microbial communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica (77° S) have shown that bacterial diversity is related to soil...