Microbial diversity of browning Peninsula, Eastern Antarctica revealed using molecular and cultivation methods

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Pudasaini, S, Wilson, J, Ji, M, van Dorst, J, Snape, I, Palmer, AS, Burns, BP, Ferrari, BC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers 2017
• Subjects: antarctic soil; bacterial diversity; cultivation; frost boils; fungal diversity; anzsrc-for: 0502 Environmental Science and Management; anzsrc-for: 0503 Soil Sciences; anzsrc-for: 0605 Microbiology; Antarctic; Windmill Islands; Browning; Browning Peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica; polar desert
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_53894; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00591

Browning Peninsula is an ice-free polar desert situated in the Windmill Islands, Eastern Antarctica. The entire site is described as a barren landscape, comprised of frost boils with soils dominated by microbial life. In this study, we explored the microbial diversity and edaphic drivers of communit...