Bajerski, Felizitas; Wagner, Dirk (2015): Selected soil properties and bacterial abundance in the glacier forefields 'Black Valley Transect' and 'Glacier Transect' on Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.846890, Supplement to: Bajerski, F; Wagner, D (2013): Bacterial succession in Antarctic soils of two glacier forefields on Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 85(1), 128-142, https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12105
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Abstract:
Antarctic glacier forefields are extreme environments and pioneer sites for ecological succession. Increasing temperatures due to global warming lead to enhanced deglaciation processes in cold-affected habitats, and new terrain is becoming exposed to soil formation and microbial colonization. However, only little is known about the impact of environmental changes on microbial communities and how they develop in connection to shifting habitat characteristics. In this study, using a combination of molecular and geochemical analysis, we determine the structure and development of bacterial communities depending on soil parameters in two different glacier forefields on Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica. Our results demonstrate that deglaciation-dependent habitat formation, resulting in a gradient in soil moisture, pH and conductivity, leads to an orderly bacterial succession for some groups, for example Cyanobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Deltaproteobacteria in a transect representing 'classical' glacier forefields. A variable bacterial distribution and different composed communities were revealed according to soil heterogeneity in a slightly 'matured' glacier forefield transect, where Gemmatimonadetes, Flavobacteria, Gamma- and Deltaproteobacteria occur depending on water availability and soil depth. Actinobacteria are dominant in both sites with dominance connected to certain trace elements in the glacier forefields.
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German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 5472008: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
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Median Latitude: -69.403423 * Median Longitude: 76.339832 * South-bound Latitude: -69.405430 * West-bound Longitude: 76.336300 * North-bound Latitude: -69.402250 * East-bound Longitude: 76.346880
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- Bajerski, F; Wagner, D (2013): (Table 1) Selected soil properties and bacterial abundance in the glacier forefield called 'Glacier Transect' on Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.846889
- Bajerski, F; Wagner, D (2013): (Table 2) Selected soil properties and bacterial abundance in the glacier forefield called 'Black Valley Transect' on Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.846887