Biotope and biocenosis of cryoconite hole ecosystems on Ecology Glacier in the maritime Antarctic

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Buda, Jakub, Łokas, Edyta, Pietryka, Mirosława, Richter, Dorota, Magowski, Wojciech, Iakovenko, Nataliia S., Porazinska, Dorota L., Budzik, Tomasz, Grabiec, Mariusz, Grzesiak, Jakub, Klimaszyk, Piotr, Gaca, Paweł, Zawierucha, Krzysztof
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Glacial ecosystems; Microbial communities; Acari and freshwater Rotifera; Algae; Antarctic cryoconite; Biodiversity; Contamination of polar regions; Antarctic; Austral; Ecology Glacier; King George Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/13887; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138112

Despite recent great interest in glacier ecosystems in the continental Antarctic, little is known about their maritime counterparts. Our study presents descriptive data on cryoconite sediments and cryoconite holes on Ecology Glacier (King George Island) to accomplish three main objectives: (a) to id...