1. Long term picoplankton dynamics in a warm-monomictic, tropical high altitude lake
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Alfonso LUGO VÁZQUEZ, Gloria VILACLARA FATJÓ, Laura PERALTA SORIANO, María Elena MARTÍNEZ-PÉREZ, Javier ALCOCER, and Miroslav MACEK
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athalassohaline lake, picoplankton, bacteria, chlorophyll-a, anoxia ,Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,Physical geography ,GB3-5030 ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
Long term analyses of the microbial loop, centred on the picoplankton dynamics, were carried out over a five-year (1998 to 2002) period in Lake Alchichica (Puebla, Mexico), a high altitude tropical athalassohaline lake. The hydrodynamics of the lake followed a warm-monomictic pattern with mixing at a minimum temperature during the early dry season while the stratification was pronounced in the late dry season and throughout the rainy season; anoxic conditions in the hypolimnion lasted
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- 2009
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