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Microscopic analysis on eukaryotic algae and cyanobacteria in nine seasonal lakes and ponds in Vestfjella,Dronning Maud Land,Antarctica

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Antarctic continental lakes and ponds are among the most impoverished aquatic environments on earth but many of them support flourishing populations of cyanobacteria,eukaryotic algae,protozoans,and some multicellular animals.In this study,we present results of a microscopic analysis of cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae from nine diverse types of Antarctic continental water bodies during one austral summer.The results supplement and enlarge our previous studies on the limnological characteristics of the epiglacial and supraglacial lakes and ponds in Dronning Maud Land,an area that has received little attention from limnologists.The taxon with highest frequency among the samples(n=79)was Mesotaenium cf.berggrenii,a eukaryotic Zygnematophyceae,which occurred in 82%of the samples with a maximum cell density of 68 cells·mL-1.The taxa with second and third highest frequency were the prokaryotes Gloeocapsopsis(60%)and Leptolyngbya(41%),followed by Chlamydomonas(34%)and Cyanothece(29%).The number of taxa varied between 7-21 among the lakes and ponds,being highest in a supraglacial lake,and lowest in an epiglacial lake.The results did not reveal any obvious correlation between the abundance of any taxa and the water chemistry,but water bodies with inorganic sediments had higher cell densities and biomasses than those without sediment.This suggests the importance of sediment in supporting biological diversity in these ultraoligotrophic lakes and ponds.

Antarctic continental lakesAntarctic continental pondscyanobacteriaalgaeprotozoarotiferstardigrada

Lauri ARVOLA、Matti LEPPÄRANTA、LI Zhijun

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Lammi Biological Station,University of Helsinki,Lammi FI-16900,Finland

Department of Physics,University of Helsinki,Helsinki FI-00014,Finland

State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116023,China

2024

极地科学进展(英文版)
中国极地研究中心,国家海洋局极地考察办公室 (Polar Research Institute of China, Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration)

极地科学进展(英文版)

影响因子:0.145
ISSN:1674-9928
年,卷(期):2024.35(2)