SHORT NOTE

• Main Authors: Martha E. Ferrario, Eugenia A. Sar, Maria Vernet, Antarctic Peninsula
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Antarctic; Brabant; Brabant Island; Gerlache; Gerlache Strait; Wilhelmina; Wilhelmina Bay; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.463.4237; http://polarphytoplankton.ucsd.edu/docs/publications/papers/Ferrario_etal_PolarBiol_1998.pdf

Abstract The formation of resting spores in diatoms is a common phenomenon in neritic environments. Here we report on resting spores of the genus Chaetoceros asso-ciated with a layer of increased chlorophyll fluorescence, at a depth of more than 200 m, north of Brabant Island and in Wilhelmina Bay,...