The Influence of Iron and Manganese on Nutrient Cycling in Shallow Freshwater Antarctic Lakes

• Main Author: Gallagher, JB
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1985
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Antarctic; Signy Island; Heywood; Heywood Lake; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642822773; https://doi.org/10.1007/9783642822759; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/136970

Two lakes, mesotrophic Heywood Lake and oligotrophicSombre Lake, at Signy Island, have been studied over 1 full yr(1980-1981). The development of deep water anoxia in SombreLake is accompanied by release, from the sediments, of nitrogen,silicon, phosphorus, iron, and manganese. Iron is released from...