Soil chronosequences and bacterial communities of the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

• Main Author: Scarrow, Joshua William
• Other Authors: Cary, S. Craig, Balks, Megan R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waikato 2013
• Subjects: Antarctica; Beardmore; bacteria; chronosequence; gelisol; cryosol; cold desert; Central Transantarctic Mountains; Antarctic; Austral; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Ross Ice Shelf; Transantarctic Mountains; Beardmore Glacier; Polar Plateau; Dominion Range; Achernar; Mount Achernar; Ong Valley; Mount Howe; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8479

The Beardmore Glacier region of the Central Transantarctic Mountains (CTAM), approximately 600 km south of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), has been studied to a much lesser extent than the accessible MDV and other regions of the continent. The CTAM were visited in the 2010/2011 austral summer, and tw...