ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2014
Microbial community dynamics in the forefield of glaciers.
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- Melting Mountains, Shifting Microbiomes: Reconsidering Microbial Roles in Post-Glacial Ecosystem Services.Current opinion in environmental sustainability · 2026Article
- The Biodiversity of Retreating Glaciers Leaves an Ecological Legacy in Emerging Soil Communities.Global change biology · 2026Article
- 16S rRNA amplicon metabarcoding dataset from a retreating glacier forefield in the high tropical andes.Data in brief · 2026Article
- Soil microbial diversity, succession, and greenhouse gas cycling across a Greenlandic glacial chronosequence.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
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- Metabolically flexible microorganisms rapidly establish glacial foreland ecosystems.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Microbial communities in glacial lakes of Glacier National Park, MT, USA.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Determinism and stochasticity drive microbial community assembly and microbial interactions in calcareous glacier forefields.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Soil Carbon Saturation: What Do We Really Know?Global change biology · 2025Review
- Dual-Domain Primary Succession of Bacteria in Glacier Forefield Streams and Soils of a Maritime and Continental Glacier.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and dynamics of antimicrobial resistance in pioneer and developing Arctic soils.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Short-term virus-host interactions and functional dynamics in recently deglaciated Antarctic tundra soils.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Biological soil crust microcolonies reveal how microbial communities assemble following retreat of a High Arctic glacier.FEMS microbes · 2025Article
- Wild Andean camelids promote rapid ecosystem development after glacier retreat.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Principal role of fungi in soil carbon stabilization during early pedogenesis in the high Arctic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Rhizosphere assembly alters along a chronosequence in the Hallstätter glacier forefield (Dachstein, Austria).FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Changes in Diversity and Abundance of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria along a Glacier Retreating Chronosequence in the Tianshan Mountains, China.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Metagenome-assembled genomes from High Arctic glaciers highlight the vulnerability of glacier-associated microbiota and their activities to habitat loss.Microbial genomics · 2023Article
- Moss and Liverwort Covers Structure Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities Differently in the Icelandic Highlands.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
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Abstract
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 increasing interest in characterizing the biogeochemical development of these ecosystems using a chronosequence approach. Prior to the establishment of plants, microbes use autochthonously produced and allochthonously delivered nutrients for growth. The microbial community composition is largely made up of heterotrophic microbes (both bacteria and fungi), autotrophic microbes and nitrogen-fixing diazotrophs. Microbial activity is thought to be responsible for the initial build-up of labile nutrient pools, facilitating the growth of higher order plant life in developed soils. However, it is unclear to what extent these ecosystems rely on external sources of nutrients such as ancient carbon pools and periodic nitrogen deposition. Furthermore, the seasonal variation of chronosequence dynamics and the effect of winter are largely unexplored. Modelling this ecosystem will provide a quantitative evaluation of the key processes and could guide the focus of future research. Year-round datasets combined with novel metagenomic techniques will help answer some of the pressing questions in this relatively new but rapidly expanding field, which is of growing interest in the context of future large-scale ice retreat.
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