Aquatic fulvic acids in algal‐rich antarctic ponds

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: McKnight, Diane M., Andrews, Edmund D., Spaulding, Sarah A., Aiken, George R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Ross Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.1994.39.8.1972; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.4319%2Flo.1994.39.8.1972; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.1994.39.8.1972

We isolated fulvic acids from two antarctic coastal ponds by means of preparative scale column chromatography with XAD‐8 resin. Both ponds are on Ross Island. Pony Lake at Cape Royds has abundant phytoplankton populations, and Feather Pond at Cape Bird has a luxuriant benthic algal mat. Neither site...