Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of benthic and pelagic organic matter in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10

• Main Authors: Jennifer Lawson, Peter T. Doran, Fabien Kenig, David J. Des Marais, John C. Priscu
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Bonney; Fryxell; Hoare; Lake Bonney; Lake Fryxell; Lake Hoare; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.3723; http://tigger.uic.edu/~fkenig/Lawson et al 2004-Aquatic Chemistry.pdf

Abstract. The perennially ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, are part of the coldest and driest ecosystem on earth. To understand lacustrine carbon and nitrogen cycling in this end-member ecosystem, and to define paleolimnological proxies for ice-covered lakes, we measured the...