ArticleScientific reports2016
Ecosystem function decays by fungal outbreaks in Antarctic microbial mats.
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- Cold comfort for change: Stream mats as biological indicators of ecosystem processes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.Journal of phycology · 2026Review
- Multiscale insights into biofilm development on hydrophobic fouling-release coatings.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Ecological differentiation at the polar frontier: metabolic strategies of endemic and cosmopolitan bacteria in Antarctic microbial mats.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
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- Bacterial community composition and function in different habitats in Antarctic Fildes region revealed by high-throughput sequencing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Microbes as marine habitat formers and ecosystem engineers.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- TerrANTALife 1.0 Biodiversity data checklist of known Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater life forms.Biodiversity data journal · 2024Article
- Ecological Characteristics of Antarctic Fungi.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2023Review
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- Carbon Pathways Through the Food Web of a Microbial Mat From Byers Peninsula, Antarctica.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Prokaryotic assemblages in the maritime Antarctic Lake Limnopolar (Byers Peninsula, South Shetland Islands).Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2017Article
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Abstract
Antarctica harbours a remarkably diverse range of freshwater bodies and terrestrial ecosystems, where microbial mats are considered the most important systems in terms of biomass and metabolic capabilities. We describe the presence of lysis plaque-like macroscopic blighted patches within the predominant microbial mats on Livingston Island (Antarctic Peninsula). Those blighting circles are associated with decay in physiological traits as well as nitrogen depletion and changes in the spatial microstructure; these alterations were likely related to disruption of the biogeochemical gradients within the microbial ecosystem caused by an unusually high fungal abundance and consequent physical alterations. This phenomenon has been evidenced at a time of unprecedented rates of local warming in the Antarctic Peninsula area, and decay of these ecosystems is potentially stimulated by warmer temperatures.
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