Winter is an important season for many limnological processes, which can range from
biogeochemical transformations to ecological interactions. Interest in the structure and …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring, a rapidly advancing technique for assessing
biodiversity and ecosystem health, offers a noninvasive approach for detecting and …

Polar regions are warming more rapidly than lower latitudes, and climate models predict that
this trend will continue into the coming decades. Despite these observations and …

Photosynthetic microorganisms are a primary source of new organic carbon production in
polar ecosystems. Despite their importance, relatively little is known about how they adapt to …

Abstract Lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry Valleys, east Antarctica) represents a year‐round
refugium for life adapted to permanent extreme conditions. Despite intensive research since …

Abstract We used an Environmentally Non‐Disturbing Under‐ice Robotic ANtarctic Explorer
to make measurements of conductivity and temperature in Lake Bonney, a chemically …

The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is characterized by a cold climate and a large number of
lakes. The long ice season necessitates study of the widespread ice covers in the region. An …

Water movement in ice‐covered lakes is known to be driven by wind, sediment heat flux,
solar radiation, saline density flows, and advective stream discharge. In large ice‐covered …

Single-celled, eukaryotic microorganisms, known as protists, are responsible for 2 important,
yet opposing, metabolic activities within aquatic food webs. They are major primary …

Microbial communities are the main drivers of biogeochemical cycling of multiple elements
sustaining life in the ocean. The rapidity of their response to stressors and abrupt …