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The Dynamic Arctic Snow Pack: An Unexplored Environment for Microbial Diversity and Activity

Catherine Larose
Timothy M. Vogel
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The Arctic environment is undergoing changes due to climate shifts, receiving contaminants from distant sources and experiencing increased human activity. Climate change may alter microbial functioning by increasing growth rates and substrate use due to increased temperature. This may lead to changes of process rates and shifts in the structure of microbial communities. Biodiversity may increase as the Arctic warms and population shifts occur as psychrophilic/psychrotolerant species disappear in favor of more mesophylic ones. In order to predict how ecological processes will evolve as a function of global change, it is essential to identify which populations participate in each process, how they vary physiologically, and how the relative abundance, activity and community structure will change under altered environmental conditions. This review covers aspects of the importance and implication of snowpack in microbial ecology emphasizing the diversity and activity of these critical members of cold zone ecosystems.

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hal-00846152 , version 1 (18-07-2013)

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Catherine Larose, Aurélien Dommergue, Timothy M. Vogel. The Dynamic Arctic Snow Pack: An Unexplored Environment for Microbial Diversity and Activity. biology, 2013, 2 (1), pp.317-330. ⟨10.3390/biology2010317⟩. ⟨hal-00846152⟩
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