Taxonomic Composition of Protist Communities in the Coastal Stratified Lake Kislo-Sladkoe (Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea) Revealed by Microscopy

• Published in: Diversity
• Main Authors: Yulia V. Mindolina, Elena A. Selivanova, Marina E. Ignatenko, Elena D. Krasnova, Dmitry A. Voronov, Andrey O. Plotnikov
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Lake Kislo-Sladkoe; meromixis; stratified lake; Arctic water body; algae; protists; protist community; protist vertical distribution; SEM; Arctic; Kandalaksha; White Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/d15010044

Lake Kislo-Sladkoe is a stratified water body partly isolated from the White Sea. Perennial meromixis in the lake irregularly alternates with mixing events. Taking into account that the protists of Arctic coastal stratified water bodies are understudied, we evaluated for the first time the vertical...