Bacterioplankton dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes: Production and biomass loss over four seasons

• Main Authors: C. D. Takacs, J. C. Priscu
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bonney; Fryxell; Hoare; Lake Fryxell; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.465.3646; http://pearl3.unm.edu/site/documents/microecolpub.pdf

Research of the microbial ecology of McMurdo Dry Valley lakes has concentrated primarily on phototrophs; relatively little is known about the heterotrophic bacterioplankton. Bacteria represent a substantial proportion of water column biomass in these lakes, comprising 30 to 60 % of total microplankt...