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Cristina Takacs-Vesbach
Name:
Cristina Takacs-Vesbach
Title:
Professor
Role:
Principal Investigator
Organization:
University of New Mexico
Address:
Castetter Hall, Department of Biology, UNM
Albuquerque
,
NM
87131
United States
Email:
ORCID:
Research Team:
Genomics
Soils
Publication List:
Feeser KL
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Van Horn DJ
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Buelow HN
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Colman DR
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McHugh TA
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Okie JG
, et al.
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Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert
. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2018;9.
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01928/full
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Kwon M
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Kim M
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Lee J
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Hong SGyu
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Kim SJong
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Niche specialization of bacteria in permanently ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
. Environmental Microbiology [Internet]. 2017;19(6):2258 - 2271.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1462-2920.13721
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Knox M
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Andriuzzi WS
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Buelow HN
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Adams B
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Wall DH
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Decoupled responses of soil bacteria and their invertebrate consumer to warming, but not freeze-thaw cycles, in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2017;20(10):1242-1249.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12819/full
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Adams B
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Doran PT
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Fountain AG
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W Lyons B
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Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica
. Nature Ecology & Evolution [Internet]. 2017;1(9):1334-1338.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0253-0
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Geyer KM
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem
. PeerJ [Internet]. 2017;5(10):e3377.
https://peerj.com/articles/3377/
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Bowman JS
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Vick-Majors TJ
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Morgan-Kiss RM
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Ducklow HW
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Priscu JC
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Microbial Community Dynamics in Two Polar Extremes: The Lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the West Antarctic Peninsula Marine Ecosystem
. BioScience [Internet]. 2016;66(10):829 - 847.
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/biosci/biw103https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/10/829/2236137/Microbial-Community-Dynamics-in-Two-Polar-Extremes
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Kohler TJ
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Van Horn DJ
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Darling JP
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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McKnight DM
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Nutrient treatments alter microbial mat colonization in two glacial meltwater streams from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
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Wagner D
. FEMS Microbiology Ecology [Internet]. 2016;92(4):fiw049.
http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiw049
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Van Horn DJ
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Wolf CR
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Colman DR
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Jiang X
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Kohler TJ
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McKnight DM
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Patterns of bacterial biodiversity in the glacial meltwater streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
. FEMS Microbiology Ecology [Internet]. 2016;92(10):fiw148.
http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiw148
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Buelow HN
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Winter AS
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Van Horn DJ
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Barrett JE
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Gooseff MN
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Schwartz E
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Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2016;7(e23484S2237R25e97876e16410550e61217386e14510884660e19953e2527e661032901141).
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01040
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Okie JG
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Van Horn DJ
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Storch D
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Barrett JE
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Gooseff MN
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Kopsova L
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Niche and metabolic principles explain patterns of diversity and distribution: theory and a case study with soil bacterial communities
. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences [Internet]. 2015;282(1809):2630.
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.2630
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Geyer KM
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Altrichter AE
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Bacterial community composition of divergent soil habitats from a polar desert.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2014;89(2):490-494.
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Van Horn DJ
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Okie JG
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Buelow HN
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Soil microbial responses to increased moisture and organic resources along a salinity gradient in a polar desert.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2014;80(10):3034-3043.
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Schwartz E
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Van Horn DJ
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Buelow HN
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Characterization of Growing Bacterial Populations in McMurdo Dry Valley Soils through Stable Isotope Probing with 18O-water.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2014;89(2):415-425.
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Winslow LA
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Dugan HA
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Buelow HN
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Cronin KD
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Priscu JC
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Autonomous Year-Round Sampling and Sensing to Explore the Physical and Biological Habitability of Permanently Ice-Covered Antarctic Lakes
. Marine Technology Society Journal [Internet]. 2014;48(5):8 - 17.
http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=0025-3324&volume=48&issue=5&spage=8http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mts/mtsj/2014/00000048/00000005/art00002
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Eveland J
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Gooseff MN
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Lampkin DJ
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Barrett JE
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Spatial and temporal patterns of snow accumulation and aerial ablation across the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
. Hydrological Processes [Internet]. 2013;27(20):2864 - 2875.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.9407/pdf
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Eveland J
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Gooseff MN
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Lampkin DJ
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Barrett JE
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Seasonal controls on snow distribution and aerial ablation at the snow-patch and landscape scales, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
. The Cryosphere [Internet]. 2013;7(3):917 - 931.
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/917/2013/tc-7-917-2013.html
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Geyer KM
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Altrichter AE
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Van Horn DJ
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Environmental controls over bacterial communities in polar desert soils
. Ecosphere. 2013;4(10):art127.
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Van Horn DJ
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M. Van Horn L
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Barrett JE
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Gooseff MN
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Altrichter AE
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Geyer KM
, et al.
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Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale
. PLoS ONE [Internet]. 2013;8(6):e66103.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066103
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Zeglin LH
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Dahm CN
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Barrett JE
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Gooseff MN
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Fitpatrick SK
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Bacterial Community Structure Along Moisture Gradients in the Parafluvial Sediments of Two Ephemeral Desert Streams
. Microbial Ecology [Internet]. 2011;61(3):543 - 556.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r83j53334v5n505w/
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Doran PT
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W Lyons B
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McKnight DM
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Life in Antarctic Deserts and Other Cold Environments
[Internet].
McKnight DM
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Gooseff MN
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Mikucki JA
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Tranter M
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Sun HJ
. Astrobiological Analogs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; 2010. p. 307.
http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511712258
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Barrett JE
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Poage M
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Gooseff MN
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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The legacy of aqueous environments on soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: contexts for future exploration of martian soils
. In Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments [Internet]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2010. pp. 78 - 109.
http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511712258&cid=CBO9780511712258A010
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Zeglin LH
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Priscu JC
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Factors promoting microbial diversity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
. In Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogues [Internet]. Cambridge University Press; 2010. pp. 221-257.
http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511712258&cid=CBO9780511712258A015
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Ikard S
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Thermal Characterisation of Active Layer Across a Soil Moisture Gradient in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 2009;20:27-39.
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Barrett JE
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Gooseff MN
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Spatial variation in soil active-layer geochemistry across hydrologic margins in polar desert ecosystems.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2009;13:2349-2358.
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Zeglin LH
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Sinsabaugh R
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Barrett JE
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Gooseff MN
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Landscape Distribution of Microbial Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Linked Biotic Processes, Hydrology, and Geochemistry in a Cold Desert Ecosystem
. Ecosystems. 2009;12:562-573.
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Northcott M
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Zeglin LH
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Humphrey J
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Hydrologic characteristics of lake- and stream-side riparian wetted margins in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
. Hydrological Processes. 2009;23:1255-1267.
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Sinsabaugh R
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Gallo M
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Gartner T
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Hobbie S
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Holland K
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Keeler B
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Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale.
Ecology Letters. 2008;11:1252-1264.
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Zeglin LH
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Microbial diversity and function at aquatic- terrestrial interfaces in desert ecosystems.
Department of Biology. University of New Mexico; 2008.
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Gooseff MN
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Barrett JE
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Northcott ML
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D. Bate B
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Hill KR
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Zeglin LH
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Controls on the spatial dimensions of wetted hydrologic margins of two antarctic lakes
. Vadose Zone Journal. 2007;6(4):841-848.
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Bobb M
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Spatial Patterns of Bacterial Diversity in Cold Desert Riparian Zones.
University of New Mexico; 2006.
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Priscu JC
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McKnight DM
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Bacterial dissolved organic carbon demand in antarctic dry valley lakes
. Limnology and Oceanography [Internet]. 2001;46(7):1189-1194.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2671031
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Priscu JC
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Wolf CF
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Fritsen CH
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Laybourn-Parry J
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Roberts EC
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Carbon transformations in a perennially ice-covered Antarctic lake
. 1999;.
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Priscu JC
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Adams EE
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W Lyons B
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Voytek MA
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Mogk DW
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Brown RL
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Geomicrobiology of sub-glacial ice above Vostok Station
. Science. 1999;286(5447):2141-2144.
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Factors Affecting the Distribution and Dynamics of Bacterioplankton Biomass and Diversity in Taylor Valley Lakes, Antarctica
. Montana State University; 1999.
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Priscu JC
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The role of phytoplankton extracellular release in bacterioplankton growth of Taylor Valley Lakes, Antarctica
. Antarctic Journal of the United States - 1996 Review Issue (NSF 98-28). 1998;31(2):211-212.
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Priscu JC
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Bacterioplankton dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica: Production and biomass loss over four seasons
. Microbial Ecology. 1998;36(3):239-250.
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Priscu JC
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Bacterial growth in Antarctic lakes: The role of phytoplankton extracellular release
. Bacterial growth in Antarctic lakes: The role of phytoplankton extracellular. 1996;.
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Takacs-Vesbach C
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Priscu JC
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Responses of bacterial growth to inorganic and organic nutrient enrichment in the lakes of the dry valleys, Antarctica
. Antarctic Journal of the US. 1995;30:303-305.
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Datasets for Cristina Takacs-Vesbach
Extracellular Enzyme Assays of Key Lake Depths
Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Concentrations
Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Dissolved CO2 Concentrations
Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Conductivity, Temperature, and Pressure
Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Lake Bonney Autonomous Lake Profiler and Samplers (ALPS): BBE moldanke Fluoroprobe data
Phytoplankton water column profiles in Lake Bonney, Antarctica from 2004 to 2015