Responses of a Maritime Antarctic lake to a catastrophic draining event under a climate change scenario

• Main Authors: Izaguirre, Irina, Pizarro, Haydee Norma, Allende, Luz, Unrein, Fernando, Rodríguez, Patricia Laura
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Catastrophic draining event; Climate change; Lake; Maritime Antarctica; Permafrost; Phytoplankton; air temperature; alga; bacterium; catastrophic event; catchment; chlorophyll a; disturbance; ecosystem response; euphotic zone; eutrophication; limnology; nutrient cycling; physicochemical property; plankton; thawing; water level; Antarctica; Boeckella Lake; West Antarctica; algae; Boeckella; Chlamydomonadales; Chrysophyceae; Eukaryota; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Austral; Esperanza; Hope Bay; Lake Boeckella; Antarc*; permafrost
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_07224060_v35_n2_p231_Izaguirre; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_07224060_v35_n2_p231_Izaguirre

The limnological features of Lake Boeckella, the main water body of Esperanza/Hope Bay (Antarctic Peninsula), were evaluated over a 16-year period, under a climate change context evidenced by the increasing air temperature trend reported for this region for the last 50 years. We analyzed the physico...