Publications - Top Five

The Top 5 Publications highlighting results from geomicrobiological studies in periglacial regions are:

• Wagner D. and Liebner S. (2010) Methanogenesis in Arctic permafrost habitats. Handbook of hydrocarbon and lipid microbiology / Kenneth N. Timmis (ed.), Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 655-666.

• Koch K., Knoblauch C. and Wagner D. (2009) Methanogenic community composition and anaerobic carbon turnover in submarine permafrost sediments of the Siberian Laptev Sea. Environmental Microbiology 11, 657-668.

• Wagner D., Kobabe S. and Liebner S. (2009) Bacterial community structure and carbon turnover in permafrost-affected soils of the Lena Delta. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 55, 73-83.

• Morozova D., Möhlmann D. and Wagner D. (2007) Survival of methanogenic archaea from Siberian permafrost under simulated Martian thermal conditions. Origin of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 37, 189-200.

• Wagner D., Gattinger A., Embacher A., Pfeiffer E.-M., Schloter M. and Lipski A. (2007) Methanogenic activity and biomass in Holocene permafrost deposits of the Lena Delta, Siberian Arctic and its implication for the global methane budget. Global Change Biology 13, 1089-1099.

Forthcoming publications

• Bajerski F., Ganzert L., Mangelsdorf K., Lipski A. and Wagner D. (2011) Cryobacterium arcticum sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant species from Store Koldewey, Northeast Greenland. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, in press.

• Ganzert L., Bajerski F., Mangelsdorf K., Lipski A. and Wagner D. (2011) Leifsonia psychrotolerans sp. nov., a new psychrotrophic species of the family Microbacteriaceae from Livingston Island, Antarctica. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, in press.

• Ganzert L., Bajerski F., Mangelsdorf K., Lipski A. and Wagner D. (2011) Arthrobacter livingstonensis sp. nov. and Arthrobacter cryotolerans sp. nov., two novel salt-tolerant, psychrophilic Arthrobacter species from Livingston Island, Antarctica. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, in press.

• Ganzert L., Lipski A., Hubberten H.-W. and Wagner D. (2011) The impact of different soil parameters on the community structure of dominant bacteria from nine different soils located on Livingston Island, South Shetland Archipelago, Antarctica. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, in press.

• Liebner S., Zeyer J., Wagner D., Schubert C., Pfeiffer E. -M. and Knoblauch C. (2011) Methane oxidation associated with submerged brown mosses reduces methane emissions from Siberian polygonal tundra. Journal of Ecology, in press.

For additional publications, please visit the personal homepages of the members of the working group or the complete publication listing of the section Periglacial Research [Link zur Sektionspublikationsliste].