Abstract:
Soil samples were collected from the crater of Mt Erebus. Yeast glucose agar and penicillin and streptomycin was used to culture thermophilic microbes, fungi and actinomycetes. Several thermophilic microbes, fungi and actinomycetes were isolated and established in pure culture.
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City:
Boulder
Province or State:
CO
Postal Code:
80309-0449
Country:
USA
Publications/References
Le Dizès, S., Kwiatkowski B.L., Rastetter E.B., Hope A., Hobbie J.E., Stow D., and Daeschner S. Modelling biogeochemical responses of tundra ecosystems to temporal and spatial variations in climate in the Kuparuk River Basin (Alaska). In press, 'Journal of Geophysical Research.' Le Dizès, S., Rastetter E.B., Kwiatkowski B.L., Hobbie J.E., and Hobbie, S.E. Modeling a sequence of biogeochemical interactions along an arctic hill slope. Submitted to 'Biogeochemistry.' Flanagan, P.W. and Veum, A.K. 1974. Relations between respiration, weight loss, temperature, and moisture in organic residues on tundra. Pages 249-277 in Holding, A.J. et al. (eds.) 'Soil organisms and decomposition in tundra.' Tundra Bione Steering committee, Stockholm, Sweden.
