Factors regulating summer phytoplankton in a highly eutrophic Antarctic lake

• Main Authors: Mataloni, María Gabriela, Tesolin, Gustavo A.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Antarctica; Ecology; Grazing; Lakes; Phytoplankton; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Strong Peak; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00188158_v432_n1-3_p65_Mataloni; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00188158_v432_n1-3_p65_Mataloni

Lakes from Maritime Antarctica are regarded as systems generally inhabited by metazoan plankton capable of imposing a top-down control on the phytoplankton during short periods, while lakes from Continental Antarctica lacking these communities would be typically controlled by scarcity of nutrients,...