Antarctic Lakes as Models for the Study of Microbial Biodiversity, Biogeography and Evolution

• Main Authors: Pearce, David A., Laybourn-Parry, Joanna
• Other Authors: Rogers, Alex D., Johnston, Nadine M., Murphy, Eugene J., Clarke, Andrew
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Victoria Land; Vestfold Hills; Vestfold; Parry; Crooked Lake; Lake Druzhby; Bayliss; Antarc*; polar desert
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18273/

The Antarctic continent is almost entirely covered by a vast icecap that reaches 4 km in thickness. Despite this, the continent possesses a remarkable array of lake ecosystems, many of them located in the small ice-free coastal areas or Antarctic oases, so-called because in this continental polar de...