The Soil Fauna of an Alpine Glacier Foreland: Colonization and Succession

By R. Kaufmann, M. Fuchs, Nina Gosterxeier. 2002

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Functional diversity of the soil microflora in primary succession across two glacier forelands in the Central Alps (2003, background): “The foreland of the Rotmoosferner glacier is among the most intensively studied of its kind in the region; there are detailed descriptions of soil formation (Erschbamer et al., 1999), vegetation development (Raffl, 1999) and faunal succession (Kaufmann, 2001; Kaufmann et al., 2002).”
Abundance of narG, nirS, nirK, and nosZ Genes of Denitrifying Bacteria during Primary Successions of a Glacier Foreland (2006, background): “Therefore, the initial energy and nutrients for these microorganisms might have been provided not only by rhizodeposition but also by aerial and fluvioglacial depositions of organic detritus, as well as by residues from soil animals (8, 9, 10, 11).”
Primary community assembly on land – the missing stages: why are the heterotrophic organisms always there first? (2002, background): “For example, Mathews (1992), in a comprehensive review of primary ‘succession’ on glacier forelands, noted the absence of any relevant published data involving animals, a situation that has only lately been remedied (Kaufmann 2001; Kaufmann et al. 2002).”