The biology and evolution of Antarctic saline lakes in relation to salinity and trophy

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Laybourn-Parry, Johanna, Quayle, Wendy, Henshaw, Tracey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2002
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Austral; Highway Lake; Rookery Lake; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13531/; http://www.springerlink.com/content/kh3mvgqcelwxypnk/fulltext.pdf

Five brackish to hypersaline lakes (Highway, Ace, Pendent, Williams and Rookery) in the Vestfold Hills, eastern Antarctica were investigated during the austral summer of 1999/2000. The aims were to characterise the functional dynamics of the plankton and gain an understanding of how the different en...