Volatile fatty and dissolved free amino acids in Organic Lake, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Gibson, JAE, Qiang, XL, Franzmann, PD, Garrick, RC, Burton, HR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 1994
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Biochemistry and Cell Biology; Analytical Biochemistry; East Antarctica; Organic Lake; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238224; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/4396

The distributions of volatile fatty acids (C1-C5) (VFAs) and dissolved free amino acids (DFAAs) in Organic Lake, a shallow hypersaline meromictic lake in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, were determined during the winter and spring of 1987. The concentrations of the two VFAs detected, formic and...