High zooplankton diversity in the extreme environments of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Hansson, Lars-Anders, Hylander, Samuel, Dartnall, Herbert J.G., Lidström, Sven, Svensson, Jan-Erik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2011
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; Boeckella; Hoare; Lake Hoare; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Rotifer
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095410201100071x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S095410201100071X

Abstract The McMurdo Dry Valley lakes of Antarctica constitute some of the harshest and most isolated freshwater environments on Earth which might be expected to limit the biogeographical expansion of many organisms. Despite this, we found that the biodiversity of rotifer zooplankton is the highest...