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Microbial Nitrogen Cycling in Antarctic Soils.
Review in Microorganisms, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Impacts of non-native invertebrates and plants on polar soil systems.npj biodiversity · 2026Review
- The Microbiome of an Invasive Antarctic insect, Eretmoptera Murphyi (Diptera: Chironomidae), and its Potential Role in Nutrient Cycling.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
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- So far but so close: the biogeography of soil and plant-associated fungi in one of the most remote landmasses on Earth.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Ubiquity and Dominance of Comammox Over AOB and AOA and their Links To ARGs in Antarctic Lake Sediments.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Comparative genomics reveals adaptive traits in novel Antarctic lithic cyanobacteria.BMC genomics · 2025Article
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- Antarctic Streptomyces: Promising biocontrol agents for combatingBiotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Comparative analysis of bacterial diversity in accumulated snow and exposed sediments across Antarctic Islands.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024Article
- Exploring Sustainable Agriculture with Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria and Nanotechnology.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Unveiling unique microbial nitrogen cycling and nitrification driver in coastal Antarctica.Nature communications · 2024Article
- All-inclusive nitrifiers in Antarctic soils.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Clearing the air: unraveling past and guiding future research in atmospheric chemosynthesis.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2023Review
- Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Moss and Liverwort Covers Structure Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities Differently in the Icelandic Highlands.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Microbial Biogeochemical Cycling of Nitrogen in Arid Ecosystems.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2022Review
- In-depth characterization of denitrifier communities across different soil ecosystems in the tundra.Environmental microbiome · 2022Article
- New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
The Antarctic continent is widely considered to be one of the most hostile biological habitats on Earth. Despite extreme environmental conditions, the ice-free areas of the continent, which constitute some 0.44% of the total continental land area, harbour substantial and diverse communities of macro-organisms and especially microorganisms, particularly in the more "hospitable" maritime regions. In the more extreme non-maritime regions, exemplified by the McMurdo Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land, nutrient cycling and ecosystem servicing processes in soils are largely driven by microbial communities. Nitrogen turnover is a cornerstone of ecosystem servicing. In Antarctic continental soils, specifically those lacking macrophytes, cold-active free-living diazotrophic microorganisms, particularly Cyanobacteria, are keystone taxa. The diazotrophs are complemented by heterotrophic bacterial and archaeal taxa which show the genetic capacity to perform elements of the entire N cycle, including nitrification processes such as the anammox reaction. Here, we review the current literature on nitrogen cycling genes, taxa, processes and rates from studies of Antarctic soils. In particular, we highlight the current gaps in our knowledge of the scale and contribution of these processes in south polar soils as critical data to underpin viable predictions of how such processes may alter under the impacts of future climate change.
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