High Latitude Limnology

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Filamentous green algae in freshwater streams on Signy Island, Antarctica....Pages 1-18
The effects of nutrient limitation and stream discharge on the epilithic microbial community in an oligotrophic Arctic stream....Pages 19-26
Microbial communities in southern Victoria Land streams (Antarctica) I. Photosynthesis....Pages 27-38
Microbial communities in southern Victoria Land streams (Antarctica) II. The effects of low temperature....Pages 39-49
Nitrogen dynamics in two antarctic streams....Pages 51-61
Benthic algal biomass and productivity in high subarctic streams, Alaska....Pages 63-75
Broadscale patterns in the distribution of aquatic and terrestrial vegetation at three ice-free regions on Ross Island, Antarctica....Pages 77-95
Community structure of benthic invertebrates in interior Alaskan (USA) streams and rivers....Pages 97-110
Variability of macroinvertebrate community composition in an arctic and subarctic stream....Pages 111-127
Geochemical processes in the Lake Fryxell Basin (Victoria Land, Antarctica)....Pages 129-148
Some aspects of iron cycling in maritime antarctic lakes....Pages 149-164
Nitrogen cycling in Arctic lakes and ponds....Pages 165-172
Photon dependence of inorganic nitrogen transport by phytoplankton in perennially ice-covered antarctic lakes....Pages 173-182
Patterns of energy storage in Pseudoboeckella poppei (Crustacea, Copepoda) from two contrasting lakes on Signy Island, Antarctica.....Pages 183-191
Tundra ponds of the Yukon Delta, Alaska, and their macroinvertebrate communities....Pages 193-206
Vertical distributions of a planktonic harpacticoid and a calanoid (Copepoda) in a meromictic Antarctic lake....Pages 207-214
Physico-chemical characteristics and origin of hypersaline meromictic Lake Garrow in the Canadian High Arctic....Pages 215-234
Meromixis in an antarctic fjord: a precursor to meromictic lakes on an isostatically rising coastline....Pages 235-254
Chemical characteristics of pond waters in the Labyrinth of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica....Pages 255-264
Biogeochemical study of organic substances in Antarctic lakes....Pages 265-289
Vertical distribution of organic constituents in an Antarctic lake: Lake Fryxell....Pages 291-303
Perennially ice-covered Lake Hoare, Antarctica: physical environment, biology and sedimentation....Pages 305-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-323