The Biodiversity and Biogeochemistry of Cryoconite Holes from McMurdo Dry Valley Glaciers, Antarctica
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*Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499, U.S.A. Current address for D. L. Porazinska: Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, FL 33314, U.S.A. [email protected] Departments of Geography and Geology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A. Bristol Glaciology Center, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, U.K. §Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, U.S.A. Abstract
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