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Antarctic Lakes

by Laybourn-Parry, Johanna; Wadham, Jemma

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Illustrations : b/w illus

Description:

The Antarctic continent carries the greatest diversity of lake environments on the planet: freshwater and saline lakes, tidal freshwater epishelf lakes, lakes on ice shelves and glacier surfaces, and over three hundred subglacial lakes. This book provides a unique synthesis of Antarctic limnology, drawing together current knowledge on geomorphology, morphometry, chemistry, community structure and function.