Water bodies that contain liquid water for at least part of the year are a surprisingly common
feature of the Antarctic landscape. While these water bodies are generically termed lakes …

13. ANTARCTIC LAKE SYSTEMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Page 1 DM Bergstrom et al. (eds.),
Trends in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic © 2006 Springer. 13. ANTARCTIC LAKE …

The Rauer Islands contain more than fifty shallow lakes and small ephemeral ponds.
Despite their proximity to the Vestfold Hills-one of the most diverse and intensively studied …

Freshwater lakes occur through much of Antarctica and are characterized by short food
chains dominated by microbes. Comparatively few studies have been made of continental …

Introduction: The evolutionary history of Antarctic lakes reflects the history of the continent
itself. More than 170 Mya, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana. Over time …

Antarctic lakes present a wide variety of physical, chemical and biological conditions, and
are not always the simplified systems imagined by earlier workers. The volume of data on …

The Antarctic continent carries the greatest diversity of lake environments on the planet:
freshwater and saline lakes, tidal freshwater epishelf lakes, lakes on ice shelves and glacier …

A characteristic and often dominant feature of many polar landscapes is the great diversity
and abundance of their standing surface waters. The focus in this chapter is on lakes and …

Lakes and pools are attractive subjects for ecological investigations. An early concept of the
trophicdynamic ecosystem model (Lindemann, 1942) was based largely on lakes, which …

1. The major factor influencing the chemical composition and evolution of the major lakes in
Taylor Valley, Antarctica, is their location within the landscape. Present‐day microclimatic …