Annual plankton dynamics in an Antarctic saline lake

• Main Authors: Bell, Elanor M, Laybourn-Parry, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: MICROBIAL PLANKTON; MESODINIUM-RUBRUM CILIOPHORA; ACE LAKE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIA; ICE-COVERED LAKE; SP-NOV; PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS; VESTFOLD HILLS; HILLS EASTERN ANTARCTICA; Antarctic; Austral; Vestfold Hills; Vestfold; Ace Lake; Saline Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica; Rotifer
• Online Access: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/f5abf1f1-da35-46f9-ae63-83ae3ddd8d1e

1. The plankton dynamics of Ace Lake, a saline, meromictic basin in the Vestfold Hills, eastern Antarctica was studied between December 1995 and February 1997. 2. The lake supported two distinct plankton communities; an aerobic microbial community in the upper oxygenated mixolimnion and an anaerobic...