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Biological soil crust microcolonies reveal how microbial communities assemble following retreat of a High Arctic glacier.

S K Schmidt, M A Cramm, A J Solon, J A Bradley, C P Bueno de Mesquita, M O Cimpoiasu, R R Rubin, R Quispe Pilco, O Kuras, T P Irons

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S K SchmidtDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9175-2085
M A CrammSchool of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
A J SolonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, United States.
J A BradleySchool of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
C P Bueno de MesquitaDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2565-7100
M O CimpoiasuBritish Geological Survey, Keyworth, NG12 5SU, United Kingdom.
R R RubinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, United States.
R Quispe PilcoDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, United States.
O KurasBritish Geological Survey, Keyworth, NG12 5SU, United Kingdom.
T P IronsDepartment of Geological Engineering, Montana Technical University, Butte, MT 59701, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-9341

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Abstract

Little is known about biological soil crust (BSC) formation during the early stages of primary succession following glacial retreat. Here, we report on focused sampling of twelve discrete BSC colonies near the snout of a retreating glacier in the High Arctic and show that BSC colonies had significantly higher 16S and 18S rRNA gene diversity than the simpler communities of bare sediments sampled next to each colony. Surprisingly, the colonies also had a higher degree of community dispersion than the more clustered bare sediment controls. There were only eight 16S amplicons that showed 100% prevalence in all 12 of the colonies, and the three most abundant of these keystone amplicons were cyanobacteria, including a nitrogen fixing

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carbon sequestrationcryobiosphereglobal warmingprimary successionsoil lichensstochastic community assembly

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