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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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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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