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Microbial community fluctuations in a meromictic, Antarctic Lake

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Abstract

The viable counts of portions of the microbial communities of the water column of Lake Bonney and associated glacial melt-streams in South Victorialand, Antarctica, were monitored at regular intervals during two consecutive austral summers. Community fluctuations in the water column correlate with the period of input from the meltstream flow into the lake.

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  1. L. S. Lane

    Present address: Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, S-104 Frear Lab., 16802, University Park, Pa.

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Lane, L.S. Microbial community fluctuations in a meromictic, Antarctic Lake. Hydrobiologia 55, 187–190 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00021060

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