Microbial Ecology of Snow Reveals Taxa-Specific Biogeographical Structure

Bipolar dispersal of red-snow algae

(2018) Takahiro Segawa et al.   Nature Communications

Snow algae drive productivity and weathering at volcanic rock-hosted glaciers

(2018) Jeff R. Havig et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Primary productivity of snow algae communities on stratovolcanoes of the Pacific Northwest

(2016) T. L. Hamilton et al.   Geobiology

A Community of Clones: Snow Algae Are Diverse Communities of Spatially Structured Clones

(2016) Shawn P. Brown et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

The biogeography of red snow microbiomes and their role in melting arctic glaciers

(2016) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

(2016) Torsten Thomas et al.   Nature Communications

Evaluation of Strategies to Separate Root-Associated Microbial Communities: A Crucial Choice in Rhizobiome Research

(2016) Tim Richter-Heitmann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Fungi and Algae Co-Occur in Snow: An Issue of Shared Habitat or Algal Facilitation of Heterotrophs?

(2015) Shawn P. Brown et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Polymerase matters: non-proofreading enzymes inflate fungal community richness estimates by up to 15 %

(2015) Alena K. Oliver et al.   Fungal Ecology

Scraping the bottom of the barrel: are rare high throughput sequences artifacts?

(2015) Shawn P. Brown et al.   Fungal Ecology

Rock comminution as a source of hydrogen for subglacial ecosystems

(2015) J. Telling et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus diversity reveals very low endemism

(2015) J. Davison et al.   SCIENCE

Novel alpine algae from New Zealand: Chlorophyta

(2015) PHIL M. NOVIS et al.   Phytotaxa

Spore dispersal of basidiomycete fungi at the landscape scale is driven by stochastic and deterministic processes and generates variability in plant-fungal interactions

(2014) Kabir G. Peay et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gromochytrium mamkaevae gen. & sp. nov. and two new orders: Gromochytriales and Mesochytriales (Chytridiomycetes)

(2014) S.A. Karpov et al.   PERSOONIA

Much beyond Mantel: Bringing Procrustes Association Metric to the Plant and Soil Ecologist’s Toolbox

(2014) Francy Junio Gonçalves Lisboa et al.   PLoS One

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Insights into the Structure and Metabolic Function of Microbes That Shape Pelagic Iron-Rich Aggregates ("Iron Snow")

(2013) S. Lu et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Contrasting primary successional trajectories of fungi and bacteria in retreating glacier soils

(2013) Shawn P. Brown et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Marine bacteria exhibit a bipolar distribution

(2013) W. J. Sul et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Culturable bacteria isolated from snow cores along the 1300 km traverse from Zhongshan Station to Dome A, East Antarctica

(2012) Peiying Yan et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

New primers to amplify the fungal ITS2 region - evaluation by 454-sequencing of artificial and natural communities

(2012) Katarina Ihrmark et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Modelling the global distribution of fungal species: new insights into microbial cosmopolitanism

(2012) Hirotoshi Sato et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Measuring ectomycorrhizal fungal dispersal: macroecological patterns driven by microscopic propagules

(2012) KABIR G. PEAY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microbes in High Arctic Snow and Implications for the Cold Biosphere

(2011) Tommy Harding et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Modelling the effect of size on the aerial dispersal of microorganisms

(2011) David M. Wilkinson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global Distribution of Polaromonas Phylotypes - Evidence for a Highly Successful Dispersal Capacity

(2011) John L. Darcy et al.   PLoS One

Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa

(2010) Diana R. Nemergut et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

(2010) Susan M. Huse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

New records of microalgae from the New Zealand alpine zone, and their distribution and dispersal

(2010) Philip M. Novis et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Phylogeography of microbial phototrophs in the dry valleys of the high Himalayas and Antarctica

(2010) S. K. Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Physiological and morphological processes in the Alpine snow alga Chloromonas nivalis (Chlorophyceae) during cyst formation

(2010) Daniel Remias et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Community Structure, Pigment Composition, and Nitrogen Source of Red Snow in Antarctica

(2009) Masanori Fujii et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

General latitudinal gradient of biodiversity is reversed in ectomycorrhizal fungi

(2009) Leho Tedersoo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Energy Metabolism Response to Low-Temperature and Frozen Conditions in Psychrobacter cryohalolentis

(2008) P. Amato et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(2008) Andy Hodson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Phylogeny and Ecophysiology of Opportunistic “Snow Molds” from a Subalpine Forest Ecosystem

(2008) S. K. Schmidt et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

(2008) J. A. Fuhrman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ubiquity of Biological Ice Nucleators in Snowfall

(2008) B. C. Christner et al.   SCIENCE