John E Dore¹, Christina Davis², Brent Christner², Wei Li³, Alexander B Michaud⁴, Mark L Skidmore⁵, Martyn Tranter⁶, John C Priscu³ and SALSA Science Team, (1)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)University of Florida, Microbiology and Cell Science, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)Montana State Univ, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (6)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom