EFFECTS OF METAL AND PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATION ON BENTHIC DIATOM COMMUNITIES NEAR CASEY STATION, ANTARCTICA: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH 1

• Published in: Journal of Phycology
• Main Authors: Cunningham, Laura, Stark, Jonathan S., Snape, Ian, McMinn, Andrew, Riddle, Martin J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2003
• Subjects: Austral; Casey Station; O'Brien Bay; Brown Bay; Sparkes Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.01251.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1529-8817.2003.01251.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.01251.x

The effects of metals and petroleum hydrocarbons on benthic marine diatom communities were assessed using a manipulative field experiment at Casey Station, Antarctica. Uncontaminated, metal contaminated, and petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated sediments were deployed for 11 weeks during the 1999 aust...