Ecology and biogeochemistry of cyanobacteria in soils, permafrost, aquatic and cryptic polar habitats

Biogeochemical responses to nutrient, moisture and temperature manipulations of soil from Signy Island, South Orkney Islands in the Maritime Antarctic

(2014) Sun Benhua et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

High-Level Diversity of Tailed Phages, Eukaryote-Associated Viruses, and Virophage-Like Elements in the Metaviromes of Antarctic Soils

(2014) Olivier Zablocki et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methods to detect cyanobacteria and their toxins in the environment

(2014) Cristiana Moreira et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Disturbance to desert soil ecosystems contributes to dust-mediated impacts at regional scales

(2014) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

(2014) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN)

(2014) Burkhard Büdel et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity

(2014) Peter Convey et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Molecular characterization of bacteria from permafrost of the Taylor Valley, Antarctica

(2014) Corien Bakermans et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Characterization of Chasmoendolithic Community in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2014) Charmaine C. M. Yung et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The microbial ecology of permafrost

(2014) Janet K. Jansson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial Functional Potential and Community Composition in Permafrost-Affected Soils of the NW Canadian Arctic

(2014) Béatrice A. Frank-Fahle et al.   PLoS One

Ace Lake: three decades of research on a meromictic, Antarctic lake

(2014) Johanna Laybourn-Parry et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Extensive remodeling of a cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus in far-red light

(2014) F. Gan et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of continental Antarctic soils

(2014) Don A. Cowan et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Vertical structure of bi-layered microbial mats from Byers Peninsula, Maritime Antarctica

(2013) Carlos Rochera et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Rates of Species Accumulation and Taxonomic Diversification during Phototrophic Biofilm Development Are Controlled by both Nutrient Supply and Current Velocity

(2013) Chad A. Larson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Climate change alters ecological strategies of soil bacteria

(2013) Sarah E. Evans et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dryland soil microbial communities display spatial biogeographic patterns associated with soil depth and soil parent material

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Plant communities as a key factor in biogeochemical processes involving micronutrients (Fe, Mn, Co, and Cu) in Antarctic soils (Byers Peninsula, maritime Antarctica)

(2013) X.L. Otero et al.   GEODERMA

Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands

(2013) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   ISME Journal

Evidence for successional development in Antarctic hypolithic bacterial communities

(2013) Thulani P Makhalanyane et al.   ISME Journal

Functions, Compositions, and Evolution of the Two Types of Carboxysomes: Polyhedral Microcompartments That Facilitate CO2 Fixation in Cyanobacteria and Some Proteobacteria

(2013) B. D. Rae et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The heat is on in Antarctica

(2013) Eric J. Steig et al.   Nature Geoscience

Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale

(2013) David J. Van Horn et al.   PLoS One

Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities

(2013) F. Garcia-Pichel et al.   SCIENCE

A review of current knowledge on toxic benthic freshwater cyanobacteria – Ecology, toxin production and risk management

(2013) Quiblier Catherine et al.   WATER RESEARCH

The carbon stable isotope biogeochemistry of streams, Taylor Valley, Antarctica

(2012) W.B. Lyons et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

Bacteria and diatom co-occurrence patterns in microbial mats from polar desert streams

(2012) Lee F. Stanish et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prokaryotic communities and operating metabolisms in the surface and the permafrost of Deception Island (Antarctica)

(2012) Yolanda Blanco et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Environmental conditions that influence toxin biosynthesis in cyanobacteria

(2012) Brett A. Neilan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place

(2012) Yuki Chan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Pyramid Trough Wetland: environmental and biological diversity in a newly created Antarctic protected area

(2012) Anne D. Jungblut et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Diverse and highly active diazotrophic assemblages inhabit ephemerally wetted soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys

(2012) Thomas D. Niederberger et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Abiotic factors influence microbial diversity in permanently cold soil horizons of a maritime-associated Antarctic Dry Valley

(2012) Francesca Stomeo et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Molecular clock evidence for survival of Antarctic cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriales,Phormidium autumnale) from Paleozoic times

(2012) Otakar Strunecký et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: implications for ecosystem structure and functioning

(2012) C. Escolar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Modular Biological Complexity

(2012) C. Koch   SCIENCE

Warming constrains bacterial community responses to nutrient inputs in a southern, but not northern, maritime Antarctic soil

(2012) Paul G. Dennis et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Evidence of species recruitment and development of hot desert hypolithic communities

(2012) Thulani P. Makhalanyane et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Temperature-related changes in polar cyanobacterial mat diversity and toxin production

(2012) Julia Kleinteich et al.   Nature Climate Change

Microbes in High Arctic Snow and Implications for the Cold Biosphere

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

Metagenomic Analysis of Stress Genes in Microbial Mat Communities from Antarctica and the High Arctic

(2011) Thibault Varin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: the ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Cyanobacteria dominance: Quantifying the effects of climate change

(2011) Carola Wagner et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Temperature effects on carbon and nitrogen metabolism in some Maritime Antarctic freshwater phototrophic communities

(2011) David Velázquez et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Hypolithic microbial communities of quartz rocks from Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2011) Nuraan Khan et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Nitrogen fixation by marine cyanobacteria

(2011) Jonathan P. Zehr   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic communities: important nitrogen sources in Antarctic desert soils

(2011) D. A. Cowan et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Ancient origins determine global biogeography of hot and cold desert cyanobacteria

(2011) Justin Bahl et al.   Nature Communications

Biogeography of terrestrial cyanobacteria from Antarctic ice-free areas

(2011) Z. Namsaraev et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Diverse hypolithic refuge communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

(2010) Don A. Cowan et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Cyanobacterial systematics and nomenclature as featured in the International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy / International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology / International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

(2010) A. Oren   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

An integrative study of a meromictic lake ecosystem in Antarctica

(2010) Federico M Lauro et al.   ISME Journal

Metaproteogenomic analysis of a dominant green sulfur bacterium from Ace Lake, Antarctica

(2010) Charmaine Ng et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2010) Arwyn Edwards et al.   ISME Journal

The functional potential of high Arctic permafrost revealed by metagenomic sequencing, qPCR and microarray analyses

(2010) Etienne Yergeau et al.   ISME Journal

Microorganisms and climate change: terrestrial feedbacks and mitigation options

(2010) Brajesh K. Singh et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

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

Production of biological soil crusts in the early stage of primary succession on a High Arctic glacier foreland

(2010) Shinpei Yoshitake et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland

(2010) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Biophysical basis for the geometry of conical stromatolites

(2010) A. P. Petroff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for widespread endemism among Antarctic micro-organisms

(2010) Wim Vyverman et al.   Polar Science

Structuring effects of climate-related environmental factors on Antarctic microbial mat communities

(2009) E Verleyen et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Isotopic evidence for the provenance and turnover of organic carbon by soil microorganisms in the Antarctic dry valleys

(2009) D. W. Hopkins et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Global distribution of cyanobacterial ecotypes in the cold biosphere

(2009) Anne D Jungblut et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial mat communities in response to recent changes in the physiochemical environment of the meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2009) Donna L. Sutherland   POLAR BIOLOGY

Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert

(2009) S. B. Pointing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread Distribution and Identification of Eight Novel Microcystins in Antarctic Cyanobacterial Mats

(2008) S. A. Wood et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

(2008) Christophe Dupraz et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2008) Blaire Steven et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prokaryotic diversity of arctic ice shelf microbial mats

(2008) Eric M. Bottos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of actinobacterial populations associated with Antarctic Dry Valley mineral soils

(2008) Olubukola O. Babalola et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sources of edaphic cyanobacterial diversity in the Dry Valleys of Eastern Antarctica

(2008) Susanna A Wood et al.   ISME Journal

Environmental microarray analyses of Antarctic soil microbial communities

(2008) Etienne Yergeau et al.   ISME Journal

DEWFALL AS A WATER SOURCE FREQUENTLY ACTIVATES THE ENDOLITHIC CYANOBACTERIAL COMMUNITIES IN THE GRANITES OF TAYLOR VALLEY, ANTARCTICA1

(2008) Burkhard Büdel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Diversity of the cyanobacterial microflora of the northern part of James Ross Island, NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica

(2008) Jiří Komárek et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Enzymatic activities and microbial communities in an Antarctic dry valley soil: Responses to C and N supplementation

(2008) D.W. Hopkins et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Relation between soil classification and bacterial diversity in soils of the Ross Sea region, Antarctica

(2007) J.M. Aislabie et al.   GEODERMA

Soil distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2007) J.G. Bockheim et al.   GEODERMA

Antarctic soils and soil formation in a changing environment: A review

(2007) F.C. Ugolini et al.   GEODERMA