Organic carbon fluxes from glaciers are a key control on biogeochemical cycles in polar regions. Two analyses of carbon cycling in glaciers show the importance of glacier–surface microbial communities in setting these inputs.
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Kujawinski, E. The power of glacial microbes. Nature Geosci 10, 329–330 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2933
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