De Scally, S.Z. (Storme); Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Frossard, Aline; Hogg, I.D.; Cowan, Don A.(Elsevier, 2016-12)
Climate change has the potential to induce dramatic shifts in the biodiversity and functionality of soil
microorganisms in polar hyperarid ecosystems. In these depauperate soil ecosystems, microbial communities
are vital ...
Microbes in hot desert soil partake in core ecosystem processes e.g., biogeochemical cycling of carbon.
Nevertheless, there is still a fundamental lack of insights regarding short-term (i.e., over a 24-hour
[diel] cycle) ...
Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Valverde, Angel; Gunnigle, Eoin; Frossard, Aline; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Cowan, Don A.(Oxford University Press, 2015-03)
A significant proportion of the Earth's surface is desert or in the process of desertification. The extreme environmental conditions that characterize these areas result in a surface that is essentially barren, with a ...
A co-extraction protocol that sequentially isolates core biopolymer fractions (DNA, RNA, protein) from edaphic
microbial communities is presented. In order to confirm compatibility with downstream analyses, bacterial
T-RFLP ...
Despite the dominance of microorganisms in arid soils, the structures and functional dynamics
of microbial communities in hot deserts remain largely unresolved. The effects of wetting event
frequency and intensity on ...
