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., Roman, M., Coria, S., Vignoni, P., Lecomte, K., Nedbalová, L., Nývlt, D., Lirio, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Clearwater Mesa; Ross Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_4705914

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...