Hypersaline environments encompass aquatic and terrestrial habitats. While only a limited
number of studies on the microbial diversity of saline soils have been carried out …

Greenland is one of the regions of interest with respect to climate change and global
warming in the Northern Hemisphere. Little is known about the structure and diversity of the …

Permafrost-affected soils are among the most obvious ecosystems in which current microbial
controls on organic matter decomposition are changing as a result of global warming …

Abstract The McMurdo Dry Valleys collectively comprise the most extensive ice-free region
in Antarctica and are considered one of the coldest arid environments on Earth. In low …

ABSTRACT The Dry Valleys of Antarctica are a unique ecosystem of simple trophic
structure, where the abiotic factors that influence soil bacterial communities can be resolved …

This chapter explores the occurrence and dominance of cyanobacteria in some of the
harshest environments on earth, the cryosphere, where extreme cold and the near absence …

During the summer months, wet (hyporheic) soils associated with ephemeral streams and
lake edges in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (DVs) become hotspots of biological activity and are …

We isolated several Hymenobacter-like strains from Victoria Upper Glacier, Antarctica, basal
ice that diverged substantially from currently defined Hymenobacter species according to …

Hyper-arid deserts present extreme challenges to life. The environmental buffering provided
by quartz and other translucent rocks allows hypolithic microbial communities to develop on …

This study investigated the culturable aerobic phototrophic bacteria present in soil samples
collected in the proximity of the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station in the Sør Rondane …