Microbial dynamics during the summer ice-loss phase in maritime Antarctic lakes

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Laybourn-Parry, Johanna, Ellis-Evans, J.Cynan, Butler, Helen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1996
• Subjects: ORIGINAL ARTICLES; Antarctic; Signy Island; Heywood; Sombre Lake; Heywood Lake; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/4/495; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/18.4.495

The dynamics of bacterioplankton and protozooplankton in two maritime Antarctic lakes (Heywood Lake and Sombre Lake, Signy Island, South Orkneys) were studied during the phase of ice break-out (December and early January 1994/95). The lakes are suffering animal-induced (fur seal) eutrophication, tho...