... composition in Antarctic sea ice. Our data set suggests a potential combination of a hydrothermal source, in the vicinity of the Mount Erebus, with aerobic CH 4 formation in sea ice, although the metabolic pathway for the latter still needs to be elucidated. Our observations show that sea ice needs...

... the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. trace metals Antarctic Iron High-latitude regions of the ocean, relative to their area...

... of observations of sea ice microbial communities has increased in recent years, there are still large areas around the Antarctic for which few samples are available. These include the south Pacific and south Indian oceans and the Amundsen Sea ( Meiners et al., 2012 ). Here we present results of a study of sea ice...