Ammonia oxidation property of soils on the glacier foreland of Austre BrÃ¸ggerbreen, Svalbard: response to open-top chamber experiments
Recent warming and glacier retreat in the Svalbard Archipelago, part of the Arctic cryosphere, have become increasingly evident. This study investigated the foreland of Austre BrÃ¸ggerbreen near Ny-Ã?lesund to examine how soil nitrification responds to changing conditions. Two sites, exposed for different periods following glacier retreat, were compared. A manipulation experiment using open-top chambers (OTCs) and homogenized initial soil conditions was conducted. We performed amplicon sequence analysis of amoA gene for ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB).