Browsing by Author "Duncan, Shona Margaret"
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An Antarctic hot spot for Fungi at Shackleton's Historic Hut on Cape Royds
Blanchette, Robert A.; Held, Benjamin W.; Arenz, Brett E.; Jurgens, Joel Allan; Baltes, Nicolas; Duncan, Shona Margaret; Farrell, Roberta L. (Springer Science Bus Media BV, 2010)The historic expedition huts located in the Ross Sea Region of the Antarctic and the thousands of artifacts left behind by the early explorers represent important cultural heritage from the “Heroic Era” of Polar exploration. ... -
Environmental pollutants from the Scott and Shackleton expeditions during the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic exploration
Blanchette, Robert A.; Held, Benjamin W.; Jurgens, Joel Allan; Aislabie, Jackie M.; Duncan, Shona Margaret; Farrell, Roberta L. (Cambridge University Press, 2004)Early explorers to Antarctica built wooden huts and brought huge quantities of supplies and equipment to support their geographical and scientific studies for several years. When the expeditions ended and relief ships ... -
Fungal Diversity and Cellulytic Activity in the Historic Huts, Ross Island, Antarctica
Duncan, Shona Margaret (The University of Waikato, 2007)The goal of this study was to undertake a microbial investigation of the Historic Huts areas on Ross Island, to gain knowledge of the fungal biodiversity and biochemical framework, focusing on the wood degrading potential ... -
Introduced and indigenous fungi of the Ross Island historic huts and pristine areas of
Farrell, Roberta L.; Arenz, Brett E.; Duncan, Shona Margaret; Held, Benjamin W.; Jurgens, Joel Allan; Blanchette, Robert A. (Springer Verlag, 2011)This review summarizes research concerning Antarctic fungi at the century-old historic huts of the Heroic Period of exploration in the Ross Dependency 1898–1917 and fungi in pristine terrestrial locations. The motivation ... -
Monitoring and identification of airborne fungi at historic locations on Ross Island, Antarctica
Duncan, Shona Margaret; Farrell, Roberta L.; Jordan, Neville; Jurgens, Joel Allan; Blanchette, Robert A. (Elsevier, 2010)Air sampling in the ‘Heroic Era’ historic huts on Ross Island, Antarctica confirmed fungal presence, viability and winter survival. Cultivation and consensus sequence-based identification of Cladosporium cladosporioides, ...
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