Diatoms in cryoconite holes and adjacent proglacial freshwater sediments, Nordenskiöld glacier (Spitsbergen, High Arctic)

• Published in: Czech Polar Reports
• Main Authors: Vinšová, P., Pinseel, E., Kohler, T. J., Van de Vijver, B., Žárský, J.D., Kavan, J., Kopalová, K. (Kateřina)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: ecology; lakes; Svalbard; Arctic; Billefjorden; glacier; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5817/CPR2015-2-11; http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0268873

In the present study, we characterize the diatom communities of Nordenskiöld glacier cryoconite holes in Billefjorden (Svalbard, Spitsbergen), and multivariate approaches were used to compare them with three freshwater localities in the immediate vicinity to investigate possible sources of the speci...