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Functional ecology of an Antarctic Dry Valley.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 May 2013
Chan Yuki, Van Nostrand Joy D, Zhou Jizhong, Pointing Stephen B, Farrell Roberta L
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The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest ice-free region in Antarctica and are critically at risk from climate change. The terrestrial landscape is dominated by oligotrophic mineral soils and extensive exposed rocky surfaces where biota are largely restricted to microbial communities, although their ability to perform the majority of geobiological processes has remained largely uncharacterized. Here, we identified...
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