Plankton dynamics in the saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills, Eastern Antarctica

• Main Author: Bell, Elanor Margaret
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Ace Lake; Antarctic; Austral; Rookery Lake; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28965/; https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28965/1/298955.pdf

The paradigm of aquatic food webs has undergone fundamental revision over the past twenty years. Research suggests that a significant proportion of organic material and energy in aquatic ecosystems flows through a "microbial loop" before passage into the classic aquatic food web. Unique An...