The production ecology of benthic plants in Some Antarctic lakes: II. Laboratory physiology studies

• Published in: The Journal of Ecology
• Main Author: Priddle, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: British Ecological Society 1980
• Subjects: Botany; Antarctic; Signy Island; Sombre Lake; Changing Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524997/; https://doi.org/10.2307/2259249

1) Laboratory experiments were carried out on the photosynthetic physiology of two algal communities and two species of aquatic moss from lakes on Signy Island (Antarctica). (2) Net rate of oxygen production by algal `felts' was measured at very low irradiance (up to 1.5 W m-2) at 2⚬ C. A commu...