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Marine Lake Mogilnoe (Kildin Island, the Barents Sea): one hundred years of solitude. / Strelkov, Petr; Shunatova, Natalia; Fokin, Mikhail; Usov, Nikolay; Fedyuk, Mikhail; Malavenda, Sergey; Lubina, Olga; Poloskin, Alexey; Korsun, Sergei.
In: Polar Biology, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2014, p. 297-310.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Marine Lake Mogilnoe (Kildin Island, the Barents Sea): one hundred years of solitude
AU - Strelkov, Petr
AU - Shunatova, Natalia
AU - Fokin, Mikhail
AU - Usov, Nikolay
AU - Fedyuk, Mikhail
AU - Malavenda, Sergey
AU - Lubina, Olga
AU - Poloskin, Alexey
AU - Korsun, Sergei
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Lake Mogilnoe (Kildin Island, the Barents Sea) is a marine stratified lake, a refuge for landlocked populations of marine organisms. Unlike other known marine lakes from polar areas, which communicate with the sea by water percolation at the surface, Mogilnoe has a subterranean connection with the sea like tropical and subtropical anchialine lakes. Similarly to some other marine lakes, Mogilnoe has traditionally been considered to be biologically isolated from the sea and subject to little change. We review the current status of the physical features, zooplankton and benthos of Mogilnoe and trace changes that have occurred in the lake since the start of observations in 1894. The anaerobic bottom water layer has expanded by 100 %, while the upper freshwater layer has diminished by 40 %. The species diversity of zooplankton and macrobenthos has halved. The occurrence of Atlantic cod likens Mogilnoe to some other Arctic marine lakes while the presence of large flocks of sea anemones, scyphomedusae and suberitid
AB - Lake Mogilnoe (Kildin Island, the Barents Sea) is a marine stratified lake, a refuge for landlocked populations of marine organisms. Unlike other known marine lakes from polar areas, which communicate with the sea by water percolation at the surface, Mogilnoe has a subterranean connection with the sea like tropical and subtropical anchialine lakes. Similarly to some other marine lakes, Mogilnoe has traditionally been considered to be biologically isolated from the sea and subject to little change. We review the current status of the physical features, zooplankton and benthos of Mogilnoe and trace changes that have occurred in the lake since the start of observations in 1894. The anaerobic bottom water layer has expanded by 100 %, while the upper freshwater layer has diminished by 40 %. The species diversity of zooplankton and macrobenthos has halved. The occurrence of Atlantic cod likens Mogilnoe to some other Arctic marine lakes while the presence of large flocks of sea anemones, scyphomedusae and suberitid
KW - Anchialine lake
KW - Meromictic lake
KW - Isolation
KW - Benthos
KW - Zooplankton
KW - Stratification
U2 - 10.1007/s00300-013-1431-4
DO - 10.1007/s00300-013-1431-4
M3 - Article
VL - 37
SP - 297
EP - 310
JO - Polar Biology
JF - Polar Biology
SN - 0722-4060
IS - 3
ER -
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