Microbial communities and primary succession in high altitude mountain environments

Storage and release of organic carbon from glaciers and ice sheets

(2015) Eran Hood et al.   Nature Geoscience

Diversity, resistance and resilience of the bacterial communities at two alpine glacier forefields after a reciprocal soil transplantation

(2014) Marco Meola et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Patterns of organic acids exuded by pioneering fungi from a glacier forefield are affected by carbohydrate sources

(2014) Ivano Brunner et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Variations of algal communities cause darkening of a Greenland glacier

(2014) Stefanie Lutz et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Specificity of Metal Sensing: Iron and Manganese Homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis

(2014) John D. Helmann   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Altitudinal Distribution Patterns of Soil Bacterial and Archaeal Communities Along Mt. Shegyla on the Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jun-Tao Wang et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Bryophyte-Cyanobacteria Associations during Primary Succession in Recently Deglaciated Areas of Tierra del Fuego (Chile)

(2014) María Arróniz-Crespo et al.   PLoS One

Safe-Site Effects on Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities in a High-Altitude Alpine Environment

(2014) Sonia Ciccazzo et al.   Biomed Research International

Different pioneer plant species select specific rhizosphere bacterial communities in a high mountain environment

(2014) Sonia Ciccazzo et al.   SpringerPlus

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

A Three-Scale Analysis of Bacterial Communities Involved in Rocks Colonization and Soil Formation in High Mountain Environments

(2013) Alfonso Esposito et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular characterization of phototrophic microorganisms in the forefield of a receding glacier in the Swiss Alps

(2013) Beat Frey 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 abiotic variables on culturable yeast diversity in two distinct Alpine glaciers

(2013) Benedetta Turchetti et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Taxonomic and phenotypic characterization of yeasts isolated from worldwide cold rock-associated habitats

(2013) Laura Selbmann et al.   Fungal Biology

Bacterial community structures of an alpine apatite deposit

(2013) Sabine Ragot et al.   GEODERMA

Bacterially facilitated rock-coating formation as a component of the geochemical budget in cold climates: An example from Kärkevagge, Swedish Lapland

(2013) Cassandra L. Marnocha et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Molecular evidence for an active endogenous microbiome beneath glacial ice

(2013) Trinity L Hamilton et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial biodiversity in glacier-fed streams

(2013) Linda Wilhelm et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ancient carbon from a melting glacier gives high 14C age in living pioneer invertebrates

(2013) Sigmund Hågvar et al.   Scientific Reports

Bioleaching of clays and iron oxide coatings from quartz sands

(2012) Iveta Štyriaková et al.   APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE

Solute and geothermal flux monitoring using electrical conductivity in the Madison, Firehole, and Gibbon Rivers, Yellowstone National Park

(2012) R. Blaine McCleskey et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Yeasts from glacial ice of Patagonian Andes, Argentina

(2012) Virginia de Garcia et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Psychrophilic yeasts from worldwide glacial habitats: diversity, adaptation strategies and biotechnological potential

(2012) Pietro Buzzini et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Fungi in hot and cold deserts with particular reference to microcolonial fungi

(2012) Katja Sterflinger et al.   Fungal Ecology

Fungal communities at the edge: Ecological lessons from high alpine fungi

(2012) S.K. Schmidt et al.   Fungal Ecology

Soil moisture effect on bacterial and fungal community in Beilu River (Tibetan Plateau) permafrost soils with different vegetation types

(2012) X.F. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Biogeochemically diverse organic matter in Alpine glaciers and its downstream fate

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

Tardigrada of the Revdalen (Spitsbergen) with the descriptions of two new species: Bryodelphax parvuspolaris (Heterotardigrada) and Isohypsibius coulsoni (Eutardigrada)

(2012) Łukasz Kaczmarek et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Soil microbial carbon and nitrogen transformations at a glacial foreland on Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) Sarah L. Strauss et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Aerobic and anaerobic microbial activities in the foreland of a receding glacier

(2012) Katrin Hofmann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in glacier environments

(2012) Takahiro Segawa et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Identification of biomass utilizing bacteria in a carbon-depleted glacier forefield soil by the use of13C DNA stable isotope probing

(2012) Anita Zumsteg et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The impact of different soil parameters on the community structure of dominant bacteria from nine different soils located on Livingston Island, South Shetland Archipelago, Antarctica

(2011) Lars Ganzert et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Pioneering fungi from the Damma glacier forefield in the Swiss Alps can promote granite weathering

(2011) I. BRUNNER et al.   Geobiology

Cultured bacterial diversity and human impact on alpine glacier cryoconite

(2011) Yung Mi Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Community Variability of Bacteria in Alpine Snow (Mont Blanc) Containing Saharan Dust Deposition and Their Snow Colonisation Potential

(2011) Maria S. Chuvochina et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Host Identity Impacts Rhizosphere Fungal Communities Associated with Three Alpine Plant Species

(2011) Katie M. Becklin et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Anita Zumsteg et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Pattern of Elemental Release During the Granite Dissolution Can Be Changed by Aerobic Heterotrophic Bacterial Strains Isolated from Damma Glacier (Central Alps) Deglaciated Granite Sand

(2011) Aleš Lapanje et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Three events of Saharan dust deposition on the Mont Blanc glacier associated with different snow-colonizing bacterial phylotypes

(2011) M. S. Chuvochina et al.   MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community structure and function change in association with colonizer plants during early primary succession in a glacier forefield

(2011) Joseph E. Knelman et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Winter to spring changes in the slush bacterial community composition of a high-mountain lake (Lake Redon, Pyrenees)

(2011) Tomàs Llorens-Marès et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Soil beneficial bacteria and their role in plant growth promotion: a review

(2010) Rifat Hayat et al.   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

Viable microbes in ice: application of molecular assays to McMurdo Dry Valley lake ice communities

(2010) Markus Dieser et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Weathering-Associated Bacteria from the Damma Glacier Forefield: Physiological Capabilities and Impact on Granite Dissolution

(2010) B. Frey et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

How do bacteria sense and respond to low temperature?

(2010) S. Shivaji et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Yeast and yeast-like diversity in the southernmost glacier of Europe (Calderone Glacier, Apennines, Italy)

(2010) Eva Branda et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Initial stages of weathering and soil formation in the Morteratsch proglacial area (Upper Engadine, Switzerland)

(2010) Christian Mavris et al.   GEODERMA

Abundances and potential activities of nitrogen cycling microbial communities along a chronosequence of a glacier forefield

(2010) Robert Brankatschk et al.   ISME Journal

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Metagenomic profiling of Arctic microbial mat communities as nutrient scavenging and recycling systems

(2010) Thibault Varin et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Hypolithic Microbial Community of Quartz Pavement in the High-Altitude Tundra of Central Tibet

(2010) Fiona K. Y. Wong et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Abundance of Microbes Involved in Nitrogen Transformation in the Rhizosphere of Leucanthemopsis alpina (L.) Heywood Grown in Soils from Different Sites of the Damma Glacier Forefield

(2010) Stefanie Töwe et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Bacterial Communities Involved in Soil Formation and Plant Establishment Triggered by Pyrite Bioweathering on Arctic Moraines

(2010) Francesca Mapelli et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Control of bacterial iron homeostasis by manganese

(2010) S. Puri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Diversity and ecology of psychrophilic microorganisms

(2010) Rosa Margesin et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Phosphorus nutrition of mycorrhizal trees

(2010) C. PLASSARD et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Microbiology of the Atmosphere-Rock Interface: How Biological Interactions and Physical Stresses Modulate a Sophisticated Microbial Ecosystem

(2009) Anna A. Gorbushina et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Phosphate solubilization and growth promotion by Pseudomonas fragi CS11RH1 (MTCC 8984), a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from a high altitude Himalayan rhizosphere

(2009) Govindan Selvakumar et al.   BIOLOGIA

Development and experimental validation of anifHoligonucleotide microarray to study diazotrophic communities in a glacier forefield

(2009) Laurence Duc et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Soil CO2flux and photoautotrophic community composition in high-elevation, ‘barren’ soil

(2009) Kristen R. Freeman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rock weathering creates oases of life in a High Arctic desert

(2009) Sara Borin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community structure of glacier forefields on siliceous and calcareous bedrock

(2009) A. lazzaro et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Bacterial succession in a glacier foreland of the High Arctic

(2009) Ursel M E Schütte et al.   ISME Journal

Global distribution of cyanobacterial ecotypes in the cold biosphere

(2009) Anne D Jungblut et al.   ISME Journal

Accumulation of anthropogenic radionuclides in cryoconites on Alpine glaciers

(2009) A. Tieber et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

Mineral dust and elemental black carbon records from an Alpine ice core (Colle Gnifetti glacier) over the last millennium

(2009) Florian Thevenon et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

(2009) Masanori Fujii et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Speciation, phase association and potential bioavailability of phosphorus on a Svalbard glacier

(2008) Marek Stibal et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Microbial primary production on an Arctic glacier is insignificant in comparison with allochthonous organic carbon input

(2008) Marek Stibal et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

High similarity between bacterioneuston and airborne bacterial community compositions in a high mountain lake area

(2008) Anna Hervas et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

High Diversity of Diazotrophs in the Forefield of a Receding Alpine Glacier

(2008) Laurence Duc et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

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

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

Exiguobacterium acetylicum strain 1P (MTCC 8707) a novel bacterial antagonist from the North Western Indian Himalayas

(2008) Govindan Selvakumar et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY