Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice
Antarctic sea ice is an important feature of the southern ocean where at its maximum it can cover 8 % of the Southern Hemisphere. It provides a stable environment for the colonisation of diverse and highly specialised microbes which play a central role in the assimilation and regulation of energy th...
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ftvuwellington:oai:researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz:10063/1852 2023-08-15T12:38:54+02:00 Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice Cowie, Rebecca Olivia MacLennan Ryan, Ken 2011 http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1852 en_NZ eng Victoria University of Wellington http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1852 Microbial ecology Prokaryotic diversity Text Doctoral 2011 ftvuwellington 2023-07-25T17:23:15Z Antarctic sea ice is an important feature of the southern ocean where at its maximum it can cover 8 % of the Southern Hemisphere. It provides a stable environment for the colonisation of diverse and highly specialised microbes which play a central role in the assimilation and regulation of energy through the Antarctic food web. Polar environments are sensitive to changes in the environment. Small changes in temperature can have large effects on sea ice thickness and extent and Antarctic sea ice cover is expected to shrink by 25 % over the next century. It is unknown how the sea ice microbiota will respond. In order to understand the effects of climate change on the sea ice ecosystem it is necessary to obtain information about the community structure, function and diversity and their reactions with the environment. Studies have focused on algal diversity and physiology in Antarctic sea ice and in comparison studies on the prokaryotic community are few. Although prokaryotic diversity has been investigated using clone libraries and culture based methods, it is likely that certain species have still not been described. Almost nothing is known about the Antarctic sea ice bacterial community spatial and temporal dynamics under changing abiotic and biotic conditions or their role in biogeochemical cycles. This is the first study linking Antarctic bacterial communities to function by using statistics to investigate the relationships between environmental variables and community structure. Bacterial community structure was investigated by extracting both the DNA and RNA from the environment to understand both the metabolically active (RNA) and total (DNA) bacterial community. The thickness of the sea ice and nutrient concentrations were key factors regulating bacterial community composition in Antarctic sea ice. Sea ice thickness is likely to have an effect on the physiological responses of algae leading to changes in photosynthate concentrations and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM). Further investigations ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Antarc* Antarctic Sea ice Southern Ocean Victoria University of Wellington: ResearchArchive Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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Antarctic sea ice is an important feature of the southern ocean where at its maximum it can cover 8 % of the Southern Hemisphere. It provides a stable environment for the colonisation of diverse and highly specialised microbes which play a central role in the assimilation and regulation of energy through the Antarctic food web. Polar environments are sensitive to changes in the environment. Small changes in temperature can have large effects on sea ice thickness and extent and Antarctic sea ice cover is expected to shrink by 25 % over the next century. It is unknown how the sea ice microbiota will respond. In order to understand the effects of climate change on the sea ice ecosystem it is necessary to obtain information about the community structure, function and diversity and their reactions with the environment. Studies have focused on algal diversity and physiology in Antarctic sea ice and in comparison studies on the prokaryotic community are few. Although prokaryotic diversity has been investigated using clone libraries and culture based methods, it is likely that certain species have still not been described. Almost nothing is known about the Antarctic sea ice bacterial community spatial and temporal dynamics under changing abiotic and biotic conditions or their role in biogeochemical cycles. This is the first study linking Antarctic bacterial communities to function by using statistics to investigate the relationships between environmental variables and community structure. Bacterial community structure was investigated by extracting both the DNA and RNA from the environment to understand both the metabolically active (RNA) and total (DNA) bacterial community. The thickness of the sea ice and nutrient concentrations were key factors regulating bacterial community composition in Antarctic sea ice. Sea ice thickness is likely to have an effect on the physiological responses of algae leading to changes in photosynthate concentrations and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM). Further investigations ... |
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Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice |
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Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice |
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Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice |
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Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice |
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Bacterial Community Structure, Function and Diversity in Antarctic Sea Ice |
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bacterial community structure, function and diversity in antarctic sea ice |
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Victoria University of Wellington |
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2011 |
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