Mixotrophic cryptophytes and their predators in the Dry Valley lakes of Antarctica

• Published in: Freshwater Biology
• Main Authors: Roberts, EC, Laybourn-Parry, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1999
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Microbiology; Microbial Ecology; Antarctic; Fryxell; Hoare; Lake Fryxell; Lake Hoare; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00401.x; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/49076

1. The ingestion rates of planktonic, mixotrophic cryptophytes in two perennially ice-covered Antarctic lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, were investigated during the summer of 1997-1998. 2. In Lake Fryxell, which is meromictic, ingestion rates increased with depth in November and were highest in a...