Bacterial dominance of phototrophic communities in a High Arctic lake and its implications for paleoclimate analysis. Polar Sci

• Main Authors: Dermot Antoniades, Julie Veillette, Marie-Josée Martineau, Claude Belzile, Jessica Tomkins, Reinhard Pienitz, Scott Lamoureux, Warwick F Vincent
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake; Ellesmere Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1040.6266; http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/warwickvincent/PDFfiles/248.pdf

Abstract The phototrophic communities in meromictic, perennially ice-covered Lake A, on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic, were characterized by pigment analysis using high performance liquid chromatography. Samples were taken to determine the vertical changes down the water column as wel...