Investigation of the effect of elevation and topography on soil biota and soil properties was part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project. The number of soil organisms (nematodes, rotifers and tardigrades), divided by species, sex and maturity was monitored at 3 elevations, initially in Taylor Valley (1993) then Garwood and Miers Valleys (2012) in order to accomplish this.
Dataset Results
1993-12-19 to 2020-01-18
10.6073/pasta/6c9dea12fe86439c0d390726348b0d5f
4003
This package contains data collected from microbial mat surveys (i.e., percent cover, ash-free dry mass (AFDM), and pigment concentrations – chlorophyll-a, scytonemin, and carotenoids) associated with satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values from the Lake Fryxell Basin of Taylor Valley, located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
Date Range:
2018-01-09 to 2018-01-25
Data sources:
DOI:
10.6073/pasta/9acbbde9abc1e013f8c9fd9c383327f4
Dataset ID:
263
An intensive field campaign was conducted during the 2018-2019 austral summer to assess spectral and biological characteristics of multiple microbial mat types, as well as mosses, across nine ephemeral glacial meltwater streams in the Fryxell Basin of Taylor Valley, located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica.
Date Range:
2018-12-06 to 2019-01-25
Data sources:
DOI:
10.6073/pasta/4f8a2a5f2f4105ddbac3355b125f8815
Dataset ID:
5500