Observations on the snow algae of the South Orkney Islands

One of the most abundant algal species found in snow on the South Orkney Islands is a unicellular chrysophycean not hitherto reported from this region. Investigations both by direct counts and by in situ determinations of metabolic activity by a radiocarbon technique suggest that growth of snow alga...

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Published in:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 1967
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0018
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1967.0018