The role of physical stability on the establishment of steady states in the phytoplankton community of two Maritime Antarctic lakes

• Main Authors: Allende, Luz, Izaguirre, Irina
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic lakes; Functional groups; Picocyanobacteria; Thermal patterns; Bacteria; Biodiversity; Biomass; Ecology; Lakes; Phase equilibria; Wind; Water bodies; Marine biology; community structure; ecological stability; functional group; ice cover; lake ecosystem; phytoplankton; steady-state equilibrium; stratification; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Lake Boeckella; Lake Chico; West Antarctica; algae; Bacteria (microorganisms); Chlamydomonas; Chromulina; Chrysophyceae; Esperanza; Ochromonas; Spheniscidae; Antarctic; Boeckella; Boeckella Lake; Esperanza Station; Hope Bay; Mount Flora; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00188158_v502_n_p211_Allende; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00188158_v502_n_p211_Allende

Two Antarctic lakes near Hope Bay were studied during summers 1998 and 1999. One of the lakes (Boeckella) is located near Esperanza Station and exhibits a meso-eutrophic condition due to the input of nutrients of a nearby penguin rookery. Its surface generally remains ice-free during the Antarctic s...