In glacier forefields, the chronosequence approach is used to investigate ecological,
biogeochemical and physical features of autogenic successional change as a function of …

Retreating ice fronts (as a result of a warming climate) expose large expanses of
deglaciated forefield, which become colonized by microbes and plants. There has been …

There is now compelling evidence that microbially mediated reactions impart a significant
effect upon the dynamics, composition, and abundance of nutrients in glacial melt water …

Cryoconite is granular sediment found on glacier surfaces comprising both mineral and
biological material. Despite long having been recognised as an important glaciological and …

The contribution of ice sheets to the global biogeochemical cycle of phosphorus is largely
unknown, due to the lack of field data. Here we present the first comprehensive study of …

The current melting of glaciers and ice sheets is a consequence of climatic change and their
turbid meltwaters are filling and enlarging many new proglacial and ice-contact lakes …

Global warming accelerates melting of glaciers and increases the supply of meltwater and
associated inorganic particles, nutrients, and organic matter to adjacent coastal seas, but the …

Roughly 10% of the Earth's surface is permanently covered by glaciers and ice sheets and
in mountain ecosystems, this proportion of ice cover is often even higher. From an ecological …

Snow environments can occupy over a third of land surface area, but little is known about
the dynamics of snowpack bacteria. The effect of snow melt on bacterial community structure …

For more than five decades, research has been conducted at Ny-Ålesund, in Svalbard,
Norway, to understand the structure and functioning of High-Arctic ecosystems and the …