Antarctic lake systems and climate change

Trends in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems: Antarctica as a Global Indicator

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 273-295

  Lyons, W B ^a   Laybourn Parry, J ^b   Welch, K A ^a   Priscu, J C ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5277-4_13     Document Type: Chapter

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