We report the discovery and on-the-ground radar mapping of a subglacial lake in Antarctica, that we have named Lake CECs (Centro de Estudios Cientificos) in honor of the institute we belong to. It is located in the central ...

Antarctica holds a great number of inland lakes whose characteristics vary from ultra-oligotrophic to hypereutrophic, and from freshwater to hypersaline. The harsh conditions in these ecosystems (extremely low temperatures, ...

Previous studies conducted in summer in the lakes at Hope Bay (Antarctic Peninsula) between 1991 and 2007 showed a large numerical contribution of flagellated Chrysophyceae to the phytoplankton communities, particularly ...

Antarctic and Subantarctic lakes are unique ecosystems with relatively simple food webs, which are likely to be strongly affected by climate warming. While Antarctic freshwater invertebrates are adapted to extreme environmental ...

Hydrological systems of the ice-free areas of the James Ross archipelago (NE Antarctic Peninsula) provide a unique opportunity for studying recent environmental changes associated with the current Global Warming. Geochemical, ...

Lakes from Maritime Antarctica are regarded as systems generally inhabited by metazoan plankton capable of imposing a top-down control on the phytoplankton during short periods, while lakes from Continental Antarctica ...

We investigated the phytoplankton structure in 60 lakes across a latitudinal gradient (2150 km), from Austral Patagonia to Antarctica, including environments ranging from oligotrophic to eutrophic. We analysed the latitudinal ...