The ice‐cover period in lakes is increasingly recognized for its distinct combination of
physical and biological phenomena and ecological relevance. Knowledge gaps exist where …

Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications is a general text covering
both basic and applied aspects of freshwater ecology and serves as an introduction to the …

BRCA1 is a large multi-domain protein with a pivotal role in maintaining genome stability
and cell cycle progression. Germline mutations in the BRCA1 gene confer an estimated …

Setting The McMurdo Dry Valleys exist because the Transantarctic Mountains block much of
the flow of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet toward McMurdo Sound (Chinn 1990). In addition, at …

Europa may be the premier place in the solar system to search for both extant life and a
second origin of life. The discovery of extant life beyond Earth would provide critical …

Clues to the evolutionary steps producing innovations in oxygenic photosynthesis may be
preserved in the genomes of organisms phylogenetically placed between non …

Antarctic lakes are characterised by simplified, truncated food webs. The lakes range from
freshwater to hypersaline with a continuum of physical and chemical conditions that offer a …

Abstract Lakes in the Taylor Valley, Antarctica were investigated to determine the impact of a
significant air temperature warming event that occurred during the austral summer of 2001 …

Lake Fryxell is a perennially ice-covered lake in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, with a
sharp oxycline in a water column that is density stabilized by a gradient in salt concentration …

A utotrophic production of organic carbon and its subsequent heterotrophic transformations
drive biogeochemical reactions and influence species abundance and diversity in all …