Microbial Mat Abundance and Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Main Author: Power, Sarah Nicole
• Other Authors: Biological Sciences, Barrett, John E., Carey, Cayelan C., Thomas, Valerie A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Virginia Tech 2019
• Subjects: Antarctica; biogeochemistry; microbial mat; multispectral imagery; remote sensing; Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Fryxell; Lake Fryxell; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101078

Primary productivity is a fundamental ecological process and an important measure of ecosystem response to environmental change. Currently, there is a considerable lapse in our understanding of primary productivity in hot and cold deserts, due to the difficulty of measuring production in cryptogam v...