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

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Sokol, Eric R., Herbold, C. W., Lee, C. K., Cary, S. Craig, Barrett, John E.
• Other Authors: Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ecological Society of America 2013
• Subjects: Antarctica; beta diversity; biogeography; diversity partitioning; McMurdo Dry Valleys; metacommunities; soil microbial ecology; Transantarctic Mountains; variation partitioning; polar desert ecosystem; southern victoria land; ross sea region; cyanobacterial diversity; community ecology; taylor; valley; bacterial diversity; spatial scales; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Beardmore; Beardmore Glacier; East Antarctica; Marsden; New Zealand; Ross Sea; Taylor Valley; Victoria Land; Antarc*; polar desert
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24807; http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES13-00136.1; 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 degrees S) have shown that bacterial diversity is related...