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In this study, we provide the first description of the bacterial communities of cryoconite holes from South American glaciers, in particular from both small high-elevation glaciers of the Central Andes in the Santiago Metropolitan Region (Chile), and from the tongues of two large glaciers in Patagonian Andes that reach low altitudes. These pieces of information fill a large geographical gap in our knowledge of glacier environments because this is the first description of the microbial communities of supraglacial environments in South America, a continent with about 30,000 km2 covered by ice29. Results showed that the large Patagonian glaciers (Exploradores and Perito Moreno) had the highest oxygen concentrations, while Iver and East Iver had the lowest ones and Morado an intermediate value. This pattern could be related to the different altitudes of the glaciers. Indeed, since water temperature in cryoconite holes is always quite low and stable at all altitudes, oxygen solubility in these environments is related to the atmospheric partial pressure of oxygen that decreases at increasing altitude30. This result is consistent with [O2] values we found in our samples. Indeed, Exploradores and Perito Moreno are located in Patagonia at low altitudes ( 40%), whereas mining is also an additional important black carbon source50. Their similarity can therefore derive also from being exposed to the same general ecological conditions, including high UV radiation, oxidative stress, anthropic pressures, and probably, also from similar sources of bacteria. These results therefore highlight that correlative studies like the present ones can hardly disentangle the effects of geographical positions and ecological conditions on the structure of cryoconite hole bacterial communities, and further studies should be designed to add insight into this still open question.Analyses of alpha diversity indices indicated that cryoconite holes on Exploradores glacier showed the highest richness and evenness. Samples on the Exploradores were collected close to the glacier terminus, surrounded by a rich evergreen broadleaf vegetation, and in an area with abundant supraglacial debris and frequented by tourists. The higher biodiversity of this large, low-altitude glacier, compared to that of the small, high-altitude Iver and East Iver glaciers is not surprising, as the rich evergreen broadleaf forest that surrounds the tongue of the first glacier can be the source of a richer and more diverse bacterial community than the bare ground surrounding the other ones. However, it is more surprising that the alpha biodiversity of the large, low-altitude Perito Moreno was intermediate and similar to that of the Morado glacier. Interestingly, Perito Moreno was the southernmost glacier among those we collected, and was surrounded by a less diverse forest, dominated by southern beeches, Nothofagus ssp. than that of Exploradores, while Morado was the glacier where samples were collected at the lowest altitude among the three glaciers near Santiago. We may therefore speculate that a broad gradient related to altitude and general climate conditions of the area surrounding the glacier may somehow affect its biodiversity. For instance, among the most abundant orders, Cytophagales were more abundant on high than on low-elevation glaciers (Fig. 5b). A similar pattern was observed for the Micrococcales and Chitinophagales (Fig. 5c–k) with the only exception of Iver.In summary, we provide the first-ever description of the bacterial communities of cryoconite holes of glaciers in South America, specifically in the Southern Andes. This study thus fills an important gap of knowledge as almost no information was previously available on the cryoconite holes of this continent, and opens the possibility of future biogeography analyses including samples from almost every important glacial area of the world. The five glaciers we investigated are still a too small sample for thoroughly assessing the ecological processes that control cryoconite hole bacterial communities, and a larger set of environmental variables should also be considered, but we hope this study can be the basis for further investigations aiming at a deeper understanding of these extreme environments. More

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(1)
$$G=a* {m}^{z}* {e}^{({c}_{1}* BAL+{c}_{2}* {{{{mathrm{ln}}}}}(BA))}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(T/{t}_{1})}{{t}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(P/{p}_{1})}{{p}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(N/{n}_{1})}{{n}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(S/{s}_{1})}{{s}_{2}}right)}^{2}}$$
(2)
We examined a total of five different growth models: (1) a full model with the size, competition, climate, S deposition, and N deposition terms (Eq. 2); (2) a model with all terms except the N deposition term; (3) a model with all terms except the S deposition term; (4) a model with all terms but without S and N deposition terms; and (5) a null model that estimated a single parameter for the mean growth parameter (a in Eq. 2).The annual probability of survival (P(s)) was estimated similarly as for growth, except that the probability was a function of time and we explored two different representations for competition. The general form of the model is shown in Eq. 3, and the full survival model in Eqs. 4, 5 for the two competition forms.$$P(s)={[acdot {{{{{rm{size}}}}}}times competitiontimes temperaturetimes precipitationtimes {N}_{dep}times {S}_{dep}]}^{time}$$
(3)
$$P(s)= {left[a* [((1-z{c}_{1}{e}^{-z{c}_{2}* m})* {e}^{-z{c}_{3}* {m}^{z{c}_{4}}})({e}^{-b{r}_{1}* B{A}_{ratio}{,}^{br2}* B{A}^{b{r}_{3}}})]vphantom{{left.* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(T/{t}_{1})}{{t}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(P/{p}_{1})}{{p}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(N/{n}_{1})}{{n}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(S/{s}_{1})}{{s}_{2}}right)}^{2}}right]}}^{time}right.}\ {left.* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(T/{t}_{1})}{{t}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(P/{p}_{1})}{{p}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(N/{n}_{1})}{{n}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(S/{s}_{1})}{{s}_{2}}right)}^{2}}right]}^{time}$$
(4)
$$P(s)= {left[a* left({e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(m/{m}_{1})}{{m}_{2}}right)}^{2}* -0.5* {left(frac{ln(BA/b{a}_{1})}{b{a}_{2}}right)}^{2}* -0.5* {left(frac{ln(BAL+1/b{l}_{1}+1)}{b{l}_{2}}right)}^{2}}right)vphantom{{left.* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(T/{t}_{1})}{{t}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(P/{p}_{1})}{{p}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(N/{n}_{1})}{{n}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(S/{s}_{1})}{{s}_{2}}right)}^{2}}right]}^{time}}right.}\ {left.* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(T/{t}_{1})}{{t}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(P/{p}_{1})}{{p}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(N/{n}_{1})}{{n}_{2}}right)}^{2}}* {e}^{-0.5* {left(frac{ln(S/{s}_{1})}{{s}_{2}}right)}^{2}}right]}^{time}$$
(5)
A total of nine survival models were examined: four using the formulation for size and competition in Eq. 4 (with the same combinations of predictors as above for growth), four using formulation for size and competition in Eq. 5, and a null survival model in which a mean annual estimate of survival (a) was raised to the exponent of the elapsed time.Parameters for each of the growth and survival models above were fit for a given species using maximum likelihood estimates through simulated annealing with 100,000 iterations via the likelihood package (v2.1.1) in Program R. Akaike’s Information Criteria (AIC) was estimated for all models. The best model was the model with the lowest AIC, and statistically indistinguishable models are those with a delta AIC  More

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