Into the microbial niche

LA Malard, A Guisan - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The environmental niche concept describes the distribution of a taxon in the environment
and can be used to understand community dynamics, biological invasions, and the impact of …

Isotopic Evidence for Microbial Nitrogen Cycling in a Glacier Interior of High-Mountain Asia

S Hattori, Z Li, N Yoshida… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Glaciers are now acknowledged as an important biome globally, but biological processes in
the interior of the glacier (englacial) are thought to be slow and to play only a minor role in …

Unexpected functional diversity of stream biofilms within and across proglacial floodplains despite close spatial proximity

G Michoud, TJ Kohler, H Peter… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High‐mountain streams are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they
intimately interface with the cryosphere. As glaciers shrink and snowpack diminishes …

Microbial Oases in the Ice: A state-of-the-art review on cryoconite holes as diversity hotspots and their scientific connotations

S Hassan, M Khan, SA Ganiee, M Zaman… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cryoconite holes, small meltwater pools on the surface of glaciers and ice sheets, represent
extremely cold ecosystems teeming with diverse microbial life. Cryoconite holes exhibit …

Exploring microbial diversity in Greenland Ice Sheet supraglacial habitats through culturing-dependent and-independent approaches

AH Jaarsma, K Sipes, A Zervas… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The microbiome of Greenland Ice Sheet supraglacial habitats is still
underinvestigated, and as a result there is a lack of representative genomes from these …

Bacterial diversity and co‐occurrence patterns differ across a world‐wide spatial distribution of habitats in glacier ecosystems

L Zhang, M Delgado‐Baquerizo, S Hotaling… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Glaciers cover nearly 10% of the Earth's surface and are unique biomes dominated by
microbial communities that support key ecosystem processes. The melting of glaciers is …

Global emergent responses of stream microbial metabolism to glacier shrinkage

TJ Kohler, M Bourquin, H Peter, G Yvon-Durocher… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Most cryospheric ecosystems are energy limited. How their energetics will respond to
climate change remains largely unknown. This is particularly true for glacier-fed streams …

Environmental micro‐niche filtering shapes bacterial pioneer communities during primary colonization of a Himalayas' glacier forefield

E Rolli, R Marasco, M Fusi, B Scaglia… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The pedogenesis from the mineral substrate released upon glacier melting has been
explained with the succession of consortia of pioneer microorganisms, whose structure and …

The dark art of cultivating glacier ice algae

MB Jensen, L Perini, L Halbach, H Jakobsen… - Botany …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Ancylonema genus includes the most-documented microalgae on glaciers and ice
sheets worldwide. There is significant interest in these microalgae in the context of climate …

Metagenomics reveal microbial effects of lotus root–fish co-culture on nitrogen cycling in aquaculture pond sediments

Z Yang, Y Yao, M Sun, G Li, J Zhu - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Feed input leads to a large amount of nitrogen-containing sediment accumulating in the
substrate in the pond culture process, threatening the safety of aquaculture production …