MICRO-INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE WITHIN A MARITIME ANTARCTIC LAKE (Eleventh Symposium on Polar Biology)

• Main Authors: Sandra J. McINNES, J. Cynan ELLIS-EVANS
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Proceeding 1990
• Subjects: Antarctic; Signy Island; Sombre Lake; South Orkney Islands; Antarc*; Polar Biology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=5099; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00005099/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=5099&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

The data set discussed here was obtained from a transect across a depth profile in Sombre Lake (Signy Island, South Orkney Islands). The fauna, composed of benthonic micro-invertebrates, was readily observed grazing on the surface of the cyanobacterial mats that form a thin cover on the surface of t...