Seasonal microbial activity in Antarctic freshwater lake sediments

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Author: Ellis-Evans, J. Cynan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1982
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Heywood; Heywood Lake; Moss Lake; Island Lake; Amos Lake; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524349/; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00286999

Seasonal fluctuations in population numbers and activity were monitored in bottom sediments of oligotrophic Moss Lake, mesotrophic Heywood Lake and eutrophic Amos Lake on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, during 1976–78. Heywood and Amos Lakes became anoxic under winter ice cover (8–10 months) and...