ABSORPTION AND UTILIZATION OF IRRADIANCE BY CYANOBACTERIAL MATS IN TWO ICE‐COVERED ANTARCTIC LAKES WITH CONTRASTING LIGHT CLIMATES

• Published in: Journal of Phycology
• Main Authors: Hawes, I., Schwarz, A‐M. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hoare; Lake Hoare; Lake Vanda; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Vanda; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.014012005.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1529-8817.1999.014012005.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.014012005.x

We investigated the under‐ice light climate and the efficiency with which light was absorbed and utilized by benthic algal mats in Lakes Hoare and Vanda, two perennially ice‐covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys area of Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The ice cover and water column of Lake Va...