McMurdo LTER Publications
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Autonomous Year-Round Sampling and Sensing to Explore the Physical and Biological Habitability of Permanently Ice-Covered Antarctic Lakes. Marine Technology Society Journal. 2014;48(5):8 - 17. doi:10.4031/MTSJ.48.5.6.
Bacterial community composition of divergent soil habitats from a polar desert. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2014;89(2):490-494. doi:10.1111/1574-6941.12306.
. Bacterial Community Structure Along Moisture Gradients in the Parafluvial Sediments of Two Ephemeral Desert Streams. Microbial Ecology. 2011;61(3):543 - 556. doi:10.1007/s00248-010-9782-7.
. Bacterial dissolved organic carbon demand in antarctic dry valley lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 2001;46(7):1189-1194. doi:10.4319/lo.2001.46.5.1189.
. Bacterial growth in Antarctic lakes: The role of phytoplankton extracellular release. Bacterial growth in Antarctic lakes: The role of phytoplankton extracellular. 1996.
. Bacterioplankton dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica: Production and biomass loss over four seasons. Microbial Ecology. 1998;36(3):239-250.
. Characterization of Growing Bacterial Populations in McMurdo Dry Valley Soils through Stable Isotope Probing with 18O-water. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2014;89(2):415-425. doi:10.1111/1574-6941.12349.
Controls on the spatial dimensions of wetted hydrologic margins of two antarctic lakes. Vadose Zone Journal. 2007;6(4):841-848. doi:10.2136/vzj2006.0161.
Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2017;1(9):1334-1338. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0253-0.
Decoupled responses of soil bacteria and their invertebrate consumer to warming, but not freeze-thaw cycles, in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Ecology Letters. 2017;20(10):1242-1249. doi:10.1111/ele.12819.
. Environmental controls over bacterial communities in polar desert soils. Ecosphere. 2013;4(10):art127. doi:10.1890/ES13-00048.1.
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Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(6):e66103. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066103.s003.
Factors promoting microbial diversity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. In: Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogues.Vol 5. Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogues. Cambridge University Press; 2010:221-257. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511712258.008.
. Geomicrobiology of sub-glacial ice above Vostok Station. Science. 1999;286(5447):2141-2144. doi:10.1126/science.286.5447.2141.
Hydrologic characteristics of lake- and stream-side riparian wetted margins in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Hydrological Processes. 2009;23:1255-1267. doi:LTER.
. Impact of meltwater flow intensity on the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of microbial mats in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. ISME Communications. 2023;3(1):3. doi:10.1038/s43705-022-00202-8.
Landscape Distribution of Microbial Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Linked Biotic Processes, Hydrology, and Geochemistry in a Cold Desert Ecosystem. Ecosystems. 2009;12:562-573. doi:LTER.
. The legacy of aqueous environments on soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: contexts for future exploration of martian soils. In: Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments.Vol 5. Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2010:78 - 109. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511712258.003.
. Life in Antarctic Deserts and Other Cold Environments. ( ). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; 2010:307. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511712258.
. Limits to the three domains of life: Lessons from community assembly along an Antarctic salinity gradient. Extremophiles. 2022;26(1):15. doi:10.1007/s00792-022-01262-3.
Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2018;9. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.01928.
McMurdo Dry Valley lake edge ‘moats’: The ecological intersection between terrestrial and aquatic polar desert habitat. Antarctic Science. 2024:1 - 17. doi:10.1017/S0954102024000087.
Microbial Community Dynamics in Two Polar Extremes: The Lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the West Antarctic Peninsula Marine Ecosystem. BioScience. 2016;66(10):829 - 847. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw103.
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