… are the dominant component of these soils, playing key … Valleys (South Victoria Land) (DV),
close to the major lakes of the three main valleys, namely Victoria, Wright and Taylor Valley, …

… Antarctic permafrost-affected soils in general. However, overall the composition of the bacterial
… The main bacterial composition observed in the Edmonson Point active layer reflects the …

… The first one is Marble Point, a site on the sea level (ca. 70 m … on viable bacteria diversity
is poor for Antarctic environments… three major valleys (the Taylor, Victoria and Wright Valleys) …

… We focused on bacteria and fungi as the main components of these communities and we …
to be a dominant component of other cold-extreme habitats including Antarctic soil biotopes [43,…

… Although climate is the dominant influence on soil genesis, … Marble Point on the coast to
−20 C in the floor of the Wright … Bacterial numbers of up to 10 9 cells g −1 dry soil have been …

… Soils with silt and clay dominant textures occur occasionally … the floor of the Wright Valley
and at Marble Point. Guglielmin et … MDV soils can harbour bacterial numbers of up to 109 cells g…

… soil near Marble Point in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica … typical soil profile on a colluvial
fan in the Wright Valley where … There is a short food chain which includes bacteria and tiny …

… Only dominant phyla were reported. We define dominant phyla as those present with a …
The results show that in addition to altitude, bacterial soil community compositions across the …

… the world is McMurdo Dry Valleys. These are the large snow-free and very low humidity
valleys in Antarctica located in Victoria Land. The reported bacterial species are represented by …

… bacterial species to dominate soils within Wright Valley and Marble Point, with the most
dominant … were found in the moister soils along the coast of Marble Point, while the least diverse …