Antarctic Dry Valley mineral soils contain unexpectedly high levels of microbial biomass
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Date
2002
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Springer Verlag
Abstract
We have applied bioluminescent ATP detection
methods to microbial enumeration in Antarctic Dry Valley
mineral soils, and validated our ATP data by two independent
methods. We have demonstrated that ATP measurement
is a valid means of determining microbial biomass in
such sites, and that the desiccated surface mineral soils of
the Antarctic Dry Valleys contain cell numbers over four
orders of magnitude higher than previously suggested
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Keywords
ATP measurement, Ornithogenic soils, Bioluminescence, Microbial biomass, Antarctic Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Citation
Cowan, D.A., Mamais, A., Sheppard, D., & Russell, N. (2002). Antarctic Dry Valley mineral soils contain unexpectedly high levels of microbial biomass. Extremophiles, 6(5):431-436.