Two Year Phytobenthos Investigation of Petrified Forest Creek at Maritime Antarctic King George Island - Preliminary study.

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Authors	KOMÁREK Ondřej KOMÁREK Jiří
Year of publication	2001
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis.
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Ecology
Keywords	Cyanobacteria; algae; diversity; periphyton; ecology; running water; Antarctica.
Description	Freshwater stream phytobenthos (cyanobacteria and algae) from Petrified Forest Creek, Arctowski station, King George island, was studied during the summer seson 1995 - 96, 1996 - 97.The main solved question was: Are there any differences or frame of the distribution of algal species in the longitudinal gradient and time as well as in each sampling profile. The distinct differences in the species composition in several defined microbiotopes were found.
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