Factors regulating summer phytoplankton in a highly eutrophic Antarctic lake

• Main Authors: Mataloni, Maria Gabriela, Tesolín, G., Sacullo, F., Tell, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Antarctica; Ecology; Grazing; Lakes; Phytoplankton; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Strong Peak; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/71670

Lakes from Maritime Antarctica are regarded as systems generally inhabited by metazoan plankton capable of imposing a top-down control on the phytoplankton during short periods, while lakes from Continental Antarctica lacking these communities would be typically controlled by scarcity of nutrients,...