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Pigment, carbohydrate and protein content of microbial mats from northern Victoria Land lake sediments
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The composition of algal pigments and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) was determined in microbial mats from two lakes in Victoria Land (Continental Antarctica) with different lithology and environmental features.
Description
The aim was to expand knowledge of benthic autotrophic communities in Antarctic lacustrine ecosystems, providing reference data for future assessment of possible changes in environmental conditions and freshwater communities.
The results of chemical analyses were supported by microscopy observations. Pigment profiles showed that filamentous cyanobacteria are dominant in both lakes. Samples from the water body at Edmonson Point had greater biodiversity, fewer pigments and lower EPS ratios than those from the lake at Kar Plateau.
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Differences in mat composition and in pigment and EPS profile between the two lakes are discussed in terms of local environmental conditions such as lithology, ice-cover and UV radiation. The present study suggests that a chemical approach could be useful in the study of benthic communities in Antarctic lakes and their variations in space and time.
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- DOI doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.807943 ↗
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- OAI-PMH record ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=o… ↗
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Topics
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- Earth & Environmental Science
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- Microscopy 75% · Pollution and contamination 73%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
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| PANGAEA | oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.807943 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4105 | enrichment · PANGAEA | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (73%) |
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| concepts[modality].local:modality:microscopy | enrichment · PANGAEA | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
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| license | source · PANGAEA | connector:pangaea@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/rights |
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