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Microbial community composition in soils of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2008
Niederberger Thomas D, McDonald Ian R, Hacker Amy L, Soo Rochelle M, Barrett John E, Wall Diana H, Cary S Craig
Abstract excerpt
Biotic communities and ecosystem dynamics in terrestrial Antarctica are limited by an array of extreme conditions including low temperatures, moisture and organic matter availability, high salinity, and a paucity of biodiversity to facilitate key ecological processes. Recent studies have discovered that the prokaryotic communities in these extreme systems are highly diverse with patchy distributions....
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