High bacterial diversity of biological soil crusts in water tracks over permafrost in the high arctic polar desert.

In this study we report the bacterial diversity of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) inhabiting polar desert soils at the northern land limit of the Arctic polar region (83° 05 N). Employing pyrosequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes this study demonstrated that these biocrusts harbor diverse bacte...

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Main Authors: Blaire Steven, Marie Lionard, Cheryl R Kuske, Warwick F Vincent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3742766?pdf=render