Heterotrophic bacteria in Antarctic lacustrine and glacial environments

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Laybourn-Parry, Johanna, Pearce, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2016
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Signy Island; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/27448/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-2011-1

Antarctica has the greatest diversity of lake types on the planet including freshwater, brackish, saline and hypersaline systems, epishelf lakes, ice shelf lakes and lakes and cryoconite holes on glacier surfaces. Beneath the continental ice sheet, there are hundreds of subglacial lakes. These syste...