Influences of soil properties on archaeal diversity and distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Main Author: Richter, Ingrid
• Other Authors: Cary, S. Craig, McDonald, Ian R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waikato 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; New Zealand; Miers; Miers Valley; Garwood; Garwood Valley; Shangri-la; Marshall Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5811

The Antarctic Dry Valleys are characterized by extremely low temperatures, arid conditions, high salinity and virtual absence of plants. Therefore, food webs of these microbially dominated soils are among the simplest on earth making these mineral soils a perfect model to study microbial biogeograph...