EFFECT OF SALINITY AND SILICATE ON ICE ALGAL GROWTH IN SAROMA KO LAGOON, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)

• Main Authors: Satoru Taguchi, Ralph E. H. Smith, Kunio Shirasawa
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aksnes; ice algae; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.509.2431; http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/polarbiosci/issues/pdf/1995-Taguchi.pdf

Ice algae may go through a drastic change of environment when ice starts melting. This is particularly true in the vicinity of fresh water runoff (RUNGE and INGRAM, 1991). The melting ice produces low salinity and low nutrient water immediately underneath the ice since the ice does not contain much...