Primary succession of soil Crenarchaeota across a receding glacier foreland.

Crenarchaeal community assembly and microdiversity in developing soils at two sites associated with deglaciation.

Non-thermophilic Crenarchaeota are recognized as ubiquitous and abundant components of soil microbial communities. Previous studies of the foreland of the receding Rotmoosferner glacier in the Austrian Central Alps have demonstrated that crenarchaeal communities in soil at different stages of development are distinct from each other, with Group 1.1b crenarchaeal populations dominating throughou...

Soil fungal community development in a high Arctic glacier foreland follows a directional replacement model, with a mid-successional diversity maximum

Directional replacement and directional non-replacement models are two alternative paradigms for community development in primary successional environments. The first model emphasizes turnover in species between early and late successional niches. The second emphasizes accumulation of additional diversity over time. To test whether the development of soil fungal communities in the foreland of a...

Plant spatial patterns and functional traits interaction along a chronosequence of primary succession: evidence from a central Alpine glacier foreland

'Sax-sess'-- genetics of primary succession in a pioneer species on two parallel glacier forelands.

The primary succession on glacier forelands is characterized by a sequence of early and late successional species, but whether there is also a chronosequence at the intraspecific, genetic level is a matter of debate. Two opposing hypotheses differ in their prediction of genetic diversity in colonizing populations due to founder effects and postcolonization gene immigration. The development of g...

Assembly patterns of soil‐dwelling lichens after glacier retreat in the European Alps

AIM To assess the spatial-temporal dynamics of primary succession following deglaciation in soil-dwelling lichen communities. LOCATION European Alps (Austria, Switzerland and Italy). METHODS Five glacier forelands subjected to relevant glacier retreat during the last century were investigated. In each glacier foreland, three successional stages were selected at increasing distance from the ...