Relating fungal functional diversity to C-cycling in sub- and Maritime Antarctic soils
Lead Research Organisation:
British Antarctic Survey
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Kevin Newsham (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Cox F
(2019)
Endemic and cosmopolitan fungal taxa exhibit differential abundances in total and active communities of Antarctic soils.
in Environmental microbiology
Cox F
(2016)
Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic.
in Ecology letters
Horrocks C
(2020)
Predicting climate change impacts on maritime Antarctic soils: a space-for-time substitution study
in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Newsham KK
(2020)
A Previously Undescribed Helotialean Fungus That Is Superabundant in Soil Under Maritime Antarctic Higher Plants.
in Frontiers in microbiology
Newsham KK
(2018)
Discrete taxa of saprotrophic fungi respire different ages of carbon from Antarctic soils.
in Scientific reports
| Description | That: (i) Soil fungal community composition in the Antarctic is more like that in the Arctic than anywhere else on Earth (ii) Surface soil ages in the Antarctic are much older than elsewhere on Earth (up to 1000 years in age) (iii) Different taxa of fungi in Antarctic soil respire away different ages of carbon to the atmosphere (iv) Fungal taxa restricted to Antarctica are more likely to be active in soils (v) maritime Antarctic soils will change as they warm, but at current rates, the changes will take at least a century to manifest themselves |
| Exploitation Route | The academic findings from this study will be of use to others working on microbial biogeography and those working on calculating the age of carbon respired to the atmosphere from soil by fungi. |
| Sectors | Environment |
| URL | http://www.antarcticfungi.co.uk/#/people/4564939933 |
| Title | Relative abundances of DNA and RNA of a previously undescribed Helotiales species in soils from Signy Island and Leonie Island, along with edaphic factors |
| Description | The dataset consists of the relative abundances of the DNA and RNA of a fungus in soil samples from Signy and Leonie Islands, along with physico-chemical parameters (moisture concentration, pH value, total carbon and nitrogen concentrations, delta-carbon-13 content, carbon-14 enrichment, and mean carbon residence time). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01403 |