The disappearing periglacial ecosystem atop Mt. Kilimanjaro supports both cosmopolitan and endemic microbial communities

Microbial Communities of High-Elevation Fumaroles, Penitentes, and Dry Tephra “Soils” of the Puna de Atacama Volcanic Zone

(2018) Adam J. Solon et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Local diversity of heathland Cercozoa explored by in-depth sequencing

(2016) Christoffer Bugge Harder et al.   ISME Journal

Nutrient limitation of microbial phototrophs on a debris-covered glacier

(2016) J.L. Darcy et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2016) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Nature Communications

Organic matter quantity and source affects microbial community structure and function following volcanic eruption on Kasatochi Island, Alaska

(2015) Lydia H. Zeglin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular diversity of microbial eukaryotes in sea water from Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica

(2015) Wei Luo et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Microbial communities in dark oligotrophic volcanic ice cave ecosystems of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica

(2015) Bradley M. Tebo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Planetary habitability: lessons learned from terrestrial analogues

(2014) Louisa J. Preston et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Do bacterial and fungal communities assemble differently during primary succession?

(2014) S. K. Schmidt et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Nutrient Addition Dramatically Accelerates Microbial Community Succession

(2014) Joseph E. Knelman et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeny of ulotrichalean algae from extreme high-altitude and high-latitude ecosystems

(2014) S. K. Schmidt et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Evidence of global-scale aeolian dispersal and endemism in isolated geothermal microbial communities of Antarctica

(2014) Craig W. Herbold et al.   Nature Communications

Insights into the biology and phylogeny of Chloromonas polyptera (Chlorophyta), an alga causing orange snow in Maritime Antarctica

(2013) Daniel Remias et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Diversity of bacteria in surface ice of Austre Lovénbreen glacier, Svalbard

(2013) Yin-Xin Zeng et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community structure on two alpine debris-covered glaciers and biogeography of Polaromonas phylotypes

(2013) Andrea Franzetti et al.   ISME Journal

Vampires in the oceans: predatory cercozoan amoebae in marine habitats

(2013) Cédric Berney et al.   ISME Journal

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Functional ecology of an Antarctic Dry Valley

(2013) Y. Chan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic stratigraphy in the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat

(2012) J Kirk Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Shedding Light on Vampires: The Phylogeny of Vampyrellid Amoebae Revisited

(2012) Sebastian Hess et al.   PLoS One

A theoretical model of C- and N-acquiring exoenzyme activities, which balances microbial demands during decomposition

(2012) Daryl L. Moorhead et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Bacterial, Archaeal and Fungal Succession in the Forefield of a Receding Glacier

(2011) Anita Zumsteg et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Comparison of wintertime eukaryotic community from sea ice and open water in the Baltic Sea, based on sequencing of the 18S rRNA gene

(2011) Markus Majaneva et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Glaciers and ice sheets as a biome

(2011) Alexandre M. Anesio et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Can zoosporic true fungi grow or survive in extreme or stressful environments?

(2010) Frank H. Gleason et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Possible interactions between bacterial diversity, microbial activity and supraglacial hydrology of cryoconite holes in Svalbard

(2010) Arwyn Edwards et al.   ISME Journal

Functional shifts in unvegetated, perhumid, recently-deglaciated soils do not correlate with shifts in soil bacterial community composition

(2010) Sarah R. Sattin et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

A molecular phylogenetic evaluation of the Spizellomycetales

(2010) William S. Wakefield et al.   MYCOLOGIA

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2010) S. Craig Cary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

Biogeography and habitat modelling of high-alpine bacteria

(2010) Andrew J. King et al.   Nature Communications

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

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Crenarchaeotaaffiliated with group 1.1b are prevalent in coastal mineral soils of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica

(2009) J. Ayton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial activity and diversity during extreme freeze–thaw cycles in periglacial soils, 5400 m elevation, Cordillera Vilcanota, Perú

(2009) S. K. Schmidt et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Microorganisms in the atmosphere over Antarctica

(2009) David A. Pearce et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Deposition and postdeposition mechanisms as possible drivers of microbial population variability in glacier ice

(2009) Shu-Rong Xiang et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

High microbial activity on glaciers: importance to the global carbon cycle

(2009) ALEXANDRE M. ANESIO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global distribution of cyanobacterial ecotypes in the cold biosphere

(2009) Anne D Jungblut et al.   ISME Journal

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogeny of euglyphid testate amoebae (Cercozoa: Euglyphida) suggests transitions between marine supralittoral and freshwater/terrestrial environments are infrequent

(2009) Thierry J. Heger et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Vegetation cover regulates the quantity, quality and temporal dynamics of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in Antarctic soils

(2009) Paula Roberts et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Evidence that chytrids dominate fungal communities in high-elevation soils

(2009) K. R. Freeman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro continues unabated

(2009) L. G. Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hidden levels of phylodiversity in Antarctic green algae: further evidence for the existence of glacial refugia

(2009) A. De Wever et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fumarole-Supported Islands of Biodiversity within a Hyperarid, High-Elevation Landscape on Socompa Volcano, Puna de Atacama, Andes

(2008) E. K. Costello et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

General Characteristics of Temperature and Humidity Variability on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

(2008) W. J. Duane et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Occurrence of Resistance to Antibiotics, UV-B, and Arsenic in Bacteria Isolated from Extreme Environments in High-Altitude (Above 4400 m) Andean Wetlands

(2008) Julián Dib et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community composition in soils of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

(2008) Thomas D. Niederberger et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial diversity and activity through a permafrost/ground ice core profile from the Canadian high Arctic

(2008) Blaire Steven et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The earliest stages of ecosystem succession in high-elevation (5000 metres above sea level), recently deglaciated soils

(2008) S.K Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High levels of microbial biomass and activity in unvegetated tropical and temperate alpine soils

(2008) A.J. King et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microorganisms as driving factors for the community structure of testate amoebae along an altitudinal transect in tropical mountain rain forests

(2008) Valentyna Krashevska et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY