Nutrients and their effects on phytoplankton populations in lakes on Signy Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Author: Hawes, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1983
• Subjects: Botany; Antarctic; Signy Island; Heywood; Lake May; Sombre Lake; Heywood Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524137/; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00303177

Seasonal changes in nutrient concentrations, phytoplankton biomass and nutritional state were followed in two contrasting Antarctic lakes. Oligotrophic Sombre Lake receives little phosphate from its catchment and this limits the standing crop of phytoplankton which can develop in spring and summer....