Pacifica Sommers

TL;DR: It is found that eukaryotic alpha and beta diversity were strongly related to those of bacteria across scales ranging from 140 m to 41 km apart, which is consistent with transport of sediments onto glaciers occurring primarily at local scales relative to the size of the valley, thus creating feedbacks in local chemistry and diversity.

TL;DR: Overall, the high-elevation biome of the Atacama region provides perhaps the best “natural experiment” in which to study microbial life in both its most extreme setting (dry tephra) and in one of its least extreme settings (fumarolic soils).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the idea that cryoconite holes can be viewed as "islands" in the same sense that an island in the ocean is an area of habitat surrounded by a barrier to entry.

TL;DR: In this article, the implementation of an ecological framework in viral metagenomic studies to address questions in virology rarely considered ecological, which can change our perception of viruses and how they interact with their surroundings.