Vertical profile of airborne microbial communities in the Southern Ocean atmospheric boundary layer
Sofía Galbán, Woo Young Kim, Pablo Sanz, Tamara Pletzer, Manuel Bañón, Juan Antonio Higuera, Javier Méndez, Ahn Kang-Ho, Sergi González, Ana Justel, Antonio Quesada
The paper examines vertical microbial community structure in the Southern Ocean atmospheric boundary layer, finding distinct lower and upper sublayers with different diversity, taxa, and morphologies.
bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2026 · PreprintEcology