Digging deeper: A holistic perspective of factors affecting soil organic carbon sequestration in agroecosystems

R Lal - Global change biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The global magnitude (Pg) of soil organic carbon (SOC) is 677 to 0.3‐m, 993 to 0.5‐m, and
1,505 to 1‐m depth. Thus,~ 55% of SOC to 1‐m lies below 0.3‐m depth. Soils of …

Polar microalgae: new approaches towards understanding adaptations to an extreme and changing environment

BR Lyon, T Mock - Biology, 2014 - mdpi.com
Polar Regions are unique and highly prolific ecosystems characterized by extreme
environmental gradients. Photosynthetic autotrophs, the base of the food web, have had to …

[图书][B] The fungal community: its organization and role in the ecosystem

J Dighton, JF White - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

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

K Sterflinger, D Tesei, K Zakharova - Fungal ecology, 2012 - Elsevier
The occurrence of fungi in soils of the hot deserts and the dry areas of the Antarctic and
Arctic are described. A number of filamentous fungi and yeasts have been documented from …

Soil microbial responses to increased moisture and organic resources along a salinity gradient in a polar desert

DJ Van Horn, JG Okie, HN Buelow… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial communities in extreme environments often have low diversity and specialized
physiologies suggesting a limited resistance to change. The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) …

Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota

BJ Adams, RD Bardgett, E Ayres, DH Wall… - Soil Biology and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is
critical to predicting and monitoring the effects of ecosystem changes on important soil …

[HTML][HTML] The diversity, extracellular enzymatic activities and photoprotective compounds of yeasts isolated in Antarctica

ABM Vaz, LH Rosa, MLA Vieira, V Garcia… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
The diversity of yeasts collected from different sites in Antarctica (Admiralty Bay, King
George Island and Port Foster Bay and Deception Island) and their ability to produce …

Diversity of soil yeasts isolated from South Victoria Land, Antarctica

L Connell, R Redman, S Craig, G Scorzetti, M Iszard… - Microbial Ecology, 2008 - Springer
Unicellular fungi, commonly referred to as yeasts, were found to be components of the
culturable soil fungal population in Taylor Valley, Mt. Discovery, Wright Valley, and two …

Distribution and abundance of soil fungi in Antarctica at sites on the Peninsula, Ross Sea Region and McMurdo Dry Valleys

BE Arenz, RA Blanchette - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Fungal abundance and diversity were studied from 245 soil samples collected in 18 distinct
ice-free locations in Antarctica including areas in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Ross Sea …

Early diverging lineages within Cryptomycota and Chytridiomycota dominate the fungal communities in ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

K Rojas-Jimenez, C Wurzbacher, EC Bourne… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Antarctic ice-covered lakes are exceptional sites for studying the ecology of aquatic fungi
under conditions of minimal human disturbance. In this study, we explored the diversity and …