Changes in the active, dead, and dormant microbial community structure across a Pleistocene permafrost chronosequence

A Burkert, TA Douglas, MP Waldrop… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Permafrost hosts a community of microorganisms that survive and reproduce for millennia
despite extreme environmental conditions, such as water stress, subzero temperatures, high …

Thawing permafrost: an overlooked source of seeds for Arctic cloud formation

JM Creamean, TCJ Hill, PJ DeMott… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
As the Arctic warms at twice the global rate, radiative feedbacks from clouds will lead to
compounding impacts on the surface energy budget that affect both regional and global …

Summer thaw duration is a strong predictor of the soil microbiome and its response to permafrost thaw in arctic tundra

KJ Romanowicz, GW Kling - Environmental Microbiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming has increased permafrost thaw in arctic tundra and extended the duration
of annual thaw (number of thaw days in summer) along soil profiles. Predicting the microbial …

Dissemination of multidrug resistant bacteria to the polar environment-Role of the longest migratory bird Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)

EA Prakash, T Hromádková, T Jabir… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), primarily due to the
frequent use and misuse of antibiotics, is an issue of serious global concern. Migratory birds …

Insight Into the Diversity and Possible Role of Plasmids in the Adaptation of Psychrotolerant and Metalotolerant Arthrobacter spp. to Extreme Antarctic Environments

K Romaniuk, P Golec, L Dziewit - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Arthrobacter spp. are coryneform Gram-positive aerobic bacteria, belonging to the class
Actinobacteria. Representatives of this genus have mainly been isolated from soil, mud …

Applications of extremophiles in astrobiology

RS Thombre, PA Vaishampayan, F Gomez - … and biotechnological aspects …, 2020 - Elsevier
Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies the origin, evolution,
distribution, and future of life in the universe. Astrobiology seeks to answer fundamental …

Bacterial communities of Novaya Zemlya archipelago ice and permafrost

AA Belov, VS Cheptsov, NA Manucharova, ZS Ezhelev - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The study of bacterial communities associated with extreme ecosystems is one of the most
important tasks in modern microbial ecology. Despite a large number of studies being …

Microbial succession under freeze–thaw events and its potential for hydrocarbon degradation in nutrient-amended antarctic soil

HE Jesus, RS Carreira, SSM Paiva, C Massone… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
The polar regions have relatively low richness and diversity of plants and animals, and the
basis of the entire ecological chain is supported by microbial diversity. In these regions …

Archeomicrobiology applied to environmental samples

P Afouda, G Dubourg, D Raoult - Microbial pathogenesis, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of ancient microorganisms represents one of the main ways to understand how
microbes have evolved to date, especially those associated with humans or ecosystems of …

Vertical distribution of bacterial community diversity in the Greater Khingan Mountain permafrost region

X Li, Y Cui, D Ma, D Song, L Liu - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil microorganisms are crucial contributors to the function of permafrost ecosystems, as
well as the regulation of biogeochemical cycles. However, little is known about the …