Habitat controls on limno-terrestrial diatom communities of Clearwater Mesa, James Ross Island, Maritime Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Kopalová, K., Soukup, J., Kohler, T.J., Roman, M., Coria, Silvia Herminda, Vignoni, P. A., Lecomte, Karina Leticia, Nedbalová, L., Nývlt, D., Lirio, Juan Manuel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: ALGAE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POLAR REGION; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Ross Island; Clearwater Mesa; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/126485

Diatoms are important ecological indicators in Antarctica, and paleolimnologists routinely apply transfer functions to fossil diatoms recovered from lake sediments to reconstruct past environments. However, living diatom communities may differ among the possible habitat types represented in sediment...