SOME LIMNOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FROM ENDERBY

• Main Authors: Land Antarctica, E. E. Macnamara
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Enderby Land
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.509.1239; http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_15/issue_5/0768.pdf

The physical and chemical properties of freshwater lakes, ponds, and melt pools of coastal ice-free areas of Enderby Land, Antarctica, and their seasonal dynamics, are discussed. The waters are significantly less mineralized than has been reported in other ice-free areas of the antarctic. Tentative explanations for the divergencies are the location of the area with respect to storm tracks and the true melt-water nature of the lakes. Primary production was variable and dependent on many factors, including seasonal temperature cycles in the water bodies.