Environmental monitoring by means of soil algae and microorganisms in the vicinity of Syowa Station

Abstract

Environmental monitoring by means of soil algae and microorganisms has been studied around Syowa Station in order to assess human impact on terrestrial habitat. As many buildings in Syowa Station were reconstructed or newly built in recent years. most monitoring sites became unsuitable for the study because of changing situation such as a change of snow-drift by reconstruction of building, etc. around the station. Then, new eight monitoring sites for soil algae and for cellulolytic activity by microoganisms were established at the beginning of February 2000 in JARE-41. We describe a summary of environmental monitoring by soil algae and microoganisms, and propose new monitoring sites and methods in this report.