The microbiome of glaciers and ice sheets

Genomic mechanisms for cold tolerance and production of exopolysaccharides in the Arctic cyanobacterium Phormidesmis priestleyi BC1401

(2016) Nathan A. M. Chrismas et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Linking microbial diversity and functionality of arctic glacial surface habitats

(2016) Stefanie Lutz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of adaptation, niche separation and microevolution within the genus Polaromonas on Arctic and Antarctic glacial surfaces

(2016) Jan Gawor et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

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

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

Taxon interactions control the distributions of cryoconite bacteria colonizing a High Arctic ice cap

(2016) Jarishma K. Gokul et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2016) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Nature Communications

Can the Bacterial Community of a High Arctic Glacier Surface Escape Viral Control?

(2016) Sara M. E. Rassner et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Aerobiology Over Antarctica – A New Initiative for Atmospheric Ecology

(2016) David A. Pearce et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Aerobic and Anaerobic Thiosulfate Oxidation by a Cold-Adapted, Subglacial Chemoautotroph

(2015) Zoë R. Harrold et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL 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

Microbial community development on the surface of Hans and Werenskiold Glaciers (Svalbard, Arctic): a comparison

(2015) Jakub Grzesiak et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Cyanobacterial reuse of extracellular organic carbon in microbial mats

(2015) Rhona K Stuart et al.   ISME Journal

Rock comminution as a source of hydrogen for subglacial ecosystems

(2015) J. Telling et al.   Nature Geoscience

Storage and release of organic carbon from glaciers and ice sheets

(2015) Eran Hood et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats

(2015) Antje Boetius et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Subglacial Lake Whillans microbial biogeochemistry: a synthesis of current knowledge

(2015) J. A. Mikucki et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Cryoconite

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

Different bulk and active bacterial communities in cryoconite from the margin and interior of the Greenland ice sheet

(2015) Marek Stibal et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Integrated ‘Omics’, Targeted Metabolite and Single-cell Analyses of Arctic Snow Algae Functionality and Adaptability

(2015) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial diversity on Icelandic glaciers and ice caps

(2015) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Analysis of virus genomes from glacial environments reveals novel virus groups with unusual host interactions

(2015) Christopher M. Bellas et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial abundance in surface ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

(2015) Marek Stibal et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemolithotrophic Primary Production in a Subglacial Ecosystem

(2014) Eric S. Boyd et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Variations of algal communities cause darkening of a Greenland glacier

(2014) Stefanie Lutz et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Molecular and biogeochemical evidence for methane cycling beneath the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet

(2014) Markus Dieser et al.   ISME Journal

A microbial ecosystem beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet

(2014) Brent C. Christner et al.   NATURE

Biological impact on Greenland's albedo

(2014) Liane G. Benning et al.   Nature Geoscience

Nitrogen Limitation and Slow Drying Induce Desiccation Tolerance in Conjugating Green Algae (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) from Polar Habitats

(2014) Martina Pichrtová et al.   PLoS One

Photosynthetic efficiency, desiccation tolerance and ultrastructure in two phylogenetically distinct strains of alpine Zygnema sp. (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta): role of pre-akinete formation

(2014) K. Herburger et al.   PROTOPLASMA

The James Ross Island and the Fletcher Promontory ice-core drilling projects

(2014) Robert Mulvaney et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

A frozen asset: The potential of flow cytometry in constraining the glacial biome

(2013) Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn et al.   CYTOMETRY PART A

Phylogeny and biogeography of an uncultured clade of snow chytrids

(2013) C. S. Naff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Large cryoconite aggregates on a Svalbard glacier support a diverse microbial community including ammonia-oxidizing archaea

(2013) Jakub D Zarsky et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Viral impacts on bacterial communities in Arctic cryoconite

(2013) Christopher M Bellas et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Seasonal and altitudinal variations in snow algal communities on an Alaskan glacier (Gulkana glacier in the Alaska range)

(2013) Nozomu Takeuchi   Environmental Research Letters

A metagenomic snapshot of taxonomic and functional diversity in an alpine glacier cryoconite ecosystem

(2013) Arwyn Edwards et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Influence of bedrock mineral composition on microbial diversity in a subglacial environment

(2013) Andrew C. Mitchell et al.   GEOLOGY

Debris-Rich Basal Ice as a Microbial Habitat, Taylor Glacier, Antarctica

(2013) Scott Montross et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Recent warming at Summit, Greenland: Global context and implications

(2013) Daniel McGrath et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

(2013) Andrea Franzetti et al.   ISME Journal

Hydrurus-related golden algae (Chrysophyceae) cause yellow snow in polar summer snowfields

(2013) Daniel Remias et al.   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Microbial secreted exopolysaccharides affect the hydrological behavior of induced biological soil crusts in desert sandy soils

(2013) Giovanni Colica et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Seasonal variability in airborne bacterial communities at a high-elevation site

(2012) Robert M. Bowers et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Diversity of Chemotactic Heterotrophic Bacteria Associated with Arctic Cyanobacteria

(2012) Sathish Prasad et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

A distinctive fungal community inhabiting cryoconite holes on glaciers in Svalbard

(2012) Arwyn Edwards et al.   Fungal Ecology

Comparison of cryoconite organic matter composition from Arctic and Antarctic glaciers at the molecular-level

(2012) Brent G. Pautler et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic

(2012) Jonathan Bamber et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Photophysiology and albedo-changing potential of the ice algal community on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet

(2012) Marian L Yallop et al.   ISME Journal

Changes in Phenolic Compounds and Cellular Ultrastructure of Arctic and Antarctic Strains of Zygnema (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) after Exposure to Experimentally Enhanced UV to PAR Ratio

(2012) Martina Pichrtová et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica

(2012) J. L. Wadham et al.   NATURE

Biological processes on glacier and ice sheet surfaces

(2012) Marek Stibal et al.   Nature Geoscience

Biogeochemically diverse organic matter in Alpine glaciers and its downstream fate

(2012) Gabriel A. Singer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbes in High Arctic Snow and Implications for the Cold Biosphere

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

Diversity, Abundance, and Potential Activity of Nitrifying and Nitrate-Reducing Microbial Assemblages in a Subglacial Ecosystem

(2011) Eric S. Boyd et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of an UV- and VIS-absorbing, purpurogallin-derived secondary pigment new to algae and highly abundant in Mesotaenium berggrenii (Zygnematophyceae, Chlorophyta), an extremophyte living on glaciers

(2011) Daniel Remias et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Structure and diversity of bacterial, eukaryotic and archaeal communities in glacial cryoconite holes from the Arctic and the Antarctic

(2011) Karen A. Cameron et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Environmental Controls on Microbial Abundance and Activity on the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Multivariate Analysis Approach

(2011) Marek Stibal et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Ecophysiology and ultrastructure of Ancylonema nordenskiöldii (Zygnematales, Streptophyta), causing brown ice on glaciers in Svalbard (high arctic)

(2011) Daniel Remias et al.   POLAR 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

Carbon fluxes through bacterial communities on glacier surfaces

(2011) Alexandre M. Anesio et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Organic matter content and quality in supraglacial debris across the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet

(2011) Marek Stibal 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

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

(2010) Arwyn Edwards et al.   ISME Journal

Regulation and function of xanthophyll cycle-dependent photoprotection in algae

(2010) Reimund Goss et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

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

(2010) Daniel Remias et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Communities of algae and cyanobacteria on glaciers in west Greenland

(2010) Jun Uetake et al.   Polar Science

Comparison of the microbial diversity at different depths of the GISP2 Greenland ice core in relationship to deposition climates

(2009) Vanya Miteva et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Response of arctic snow and permafrost algae to high light and nitrogen stress by changes in pigment composition and applied aspects for biotechnology

(2009) Thomas Leya 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

Snow Molds: A Group of Fungi that Prevail under Snow

(2009) Naoyuki Matsumoto   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

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

(2009) Masanori Fujii et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Isolation of fungi from Lake Vostok accretion ice

(2009) Tom D’Elia et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Glaciers as a source of ancient and labile organic matter to the marine environment

(2009) Eran Hood et al.   NATURE

Physiology, Ultrastructure and Habitat of the Ice Alga Mesotaenium berggrenii (Zygnemaphyceae, Chlorophyta) from Glaciers in the European Alps

(2009) Daniel Remias et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(2008) Andy Hodson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS