Knowledge of Antarctic biotas and environments has increased dramatically in recent years.
There has also been a rapid increase in the use of novel technologies. Despite this, some …

Fungi are found in all aerobic ecosystems, colonizing a diversity of substrates and
performing a wide diversity of functions, some of which are not well understood. Many …

At a hole in lake ice, a painting from the year 1900 by Finnish artist Pekka Halonen (1865–
1933), who is well known especially of his winter landscapes. In cold regions the normal life …

Setting The McMurdo Dry Valleys exist because the Transantarctic Mountains block much of
the flow of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet toward McMurdo Sound (Chinn 1990). In addition, at …

Down-core paleolimnological investigations of lake-sediment sequences require sufficient
age control to enable comparisons and correlations on local, regional and global scales …

Sediment profiles from several lakes/ponds in the northern, ice-free area of James Ross
Island, Antarctica, were the subject of a multi-disciplinary palaeoenvironmental investigation …

Water tracks are zones of high soil moisture that route water downslope over the ice table in
polar environments. We present physical, hydrological, and geochemical evidence collected …

Soils in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica are considered to be among the world's most extreme
environments. These soils are old, cold and dry with low contents of organic carbon and …

In the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, dilute glacial meltwater flows down well‐established
streambeds to closed basin lakes during the austral summer. During the 6–12 week flow …

Soil organic matter in the dry valleys of the McMurdo Sound Region sustains a unique
terrestrial microbial community in one of the most extreme climates on earth. The origin of …