Disappearing Kilimanjaro snow—Are we the last generation to explore equatorial glacier biodiversity?

Emerging from the ice – fungal communities are diverse and dynamic in earliest soil developmental stages of a receding glacier

(2019) Philipp Dresch et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The “Dirty Ice” of the McMurdo Ice Shelf: Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian

(2018) I. Hawes et al.   Geobiology

Demographic analysis of cyanobacteria based on the mutation rates estimated from an ancient ice core

(2018) Takahiro Segawa et al.   HEREDITY

Marked Succession of Cyanobacterial Communities Following Glacier Retreat in the High Arctic

(2018) Igor S. Pessi et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Tardigrada and Rotifera from moss microhabitats on a disappearing Ugandan glacier, with the description of a new species of water bear 

(2018) KRZYSZTOF ZAWIERUCHA et al.   ZOOTAXA

Phylogenetic diversity of prokaryotes on the snow-cover of Lewis glacier in Mount Kenya

(2018) O. Kuja Josiah et al.   African Journal of Microbiology Research

Microbial ecology of mountain glacier ecosystems: biodiversity, ecological connections and implications of a warming climate

(2017) Scott Hotaling et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

(2017) Marek Stibal et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Sea ice, extremophiles and life on extra-terrestrial ocean worlds

(2017) Andrew Martin et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Snapshot of micro-animals and associated biotic and abiotic environmental variables on the edge of the south-west Greenland ice sheet

(2017) Krzysztof Zawierucha et al.   LIMNOLOGY

Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

(2017) Alexander M. Milner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Potential sources of bacteria colonizing the cryoconite of an Alpine glacier

(2017) Andrea Franzetti et al.   PLoS One

Cryoconite pans on Snowball Earth: supraglacial oases for Cryogenian eukaryotes?

(2016) P. F. Hoffman   Geobiology

Slight mass loss revealed by reanalyzing glacier mass-balance observations on Glaciar Antisana 15α (inner tropics) during the 1995–2012 period

(2016) RUBÉN BASANTES-SERRANO et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

Colonization of maritime glacier ice by bdelloid Rotifera

(2016) Daniel H. Shain et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2016) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Nature Communications

The microorganisms of cryoconite holes (algae, Archaea, bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi, and Protista): a review

(2015) Łukasz Kaczmarek et al.   POLAR RECORD

Cryoconite

(2015) Joseph Cook et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation in South Ecuador since the 1970s – Losing a Hotspot of Biodiversity

(2015) María Fernanda Tapia-Armijos et al.   PLoS One

Coupled cryoconite ecosystem structure-function relationships are revealed by comparing bacterial communities in alpine and Arctic glaciers

(2014) Arwyn Edwards et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

What animals can live in cryoconite holes? A faunal review

(2014) K. Zawierucha et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Novel Biogenic Aggregation of Moss Gemmae on a Disappearing African Glacier

(2014) Jun Uetake et al.   PLoS One

Do Cryoconite Holes have the Potential to be Significant Sources of C, N, and P to Downstream Depauperate Ecosystems of Taylor Valley, Antarctica?

(2013) Elizabeth A. Bagshaw et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Antifreeze protein activity in Arctic cryoconite bacteria

(2013) Purnima Singh et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The role of glacier mice in the invertebrate colonisation of glacial surfaces: the moss balls of the Falljökull, Iceland

(2012) S. J. Coulson et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Tropical glaciers, recorders and indicators of climate change, are disappearing globally

(2012) Lonnie G. Thompson et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Impacts of climatic change on water and natural hazards in the Alps: Can current water governance cope with future challenges? Examples from the European “ACQWA” project

(2011) Martin Beniston et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2011) Chrystal S. Mantyka-pringle et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Glaciers and ice sheets as a biome

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

The microstructure and biogeochemistry of Arctic cryoconite granules

(2011) Harry Langford et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Structure and formation process of cryoconite granules on Ürümqi glacier No. 1 , Tien Shan, China

(2011) Nozomu Takeuchi et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time-delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

(2010) Jochen Krauss et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Is the decline of ice on Kilimanjaro unprecedented in the Holocene?

(2010) Georg Kaser et al.   HOLOCENE

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

GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(2008) Andy Hodson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Quaternary glaciation in Africa: key chronologies and climatic implications

(2008) Bryan G. Mark et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE