<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">John E. Barrett</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ross A. Virginia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">W. Berry Lyons</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diane M. McKnight</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">John C. Priscu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andrew G Fountain</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diana H. Wall</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daryl L. Moorhead</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peter T. Doran</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biogeochemical stoichiometry of Antarctic Dry Valley ecosystems</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Geophysical Research</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biggie</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">02/2007</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">112</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">G01010+12</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;Among aquatic and terrestrial landscapes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, ecosystem stoichiometry ranges from values near the Redfield ratios for C:N:P to nutrient concentrations in proportions far above or below ratios necessary to support balanced microbial growth. This polar desert provides an opportunity to evaluate stoichiometric approaches to understand nutrient cycling in an ecosystem where biological diversity and activity are low, and controls over the movement and mass balances of nutrients operate over 10&amp;ndash;10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 0; top: -0.5em; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; outline: 0px; font-size: 0.688em; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;years. The simple organisms (microbial and metazoan) comprising dry valley foodwebs adhere to strict biochemical requirements in the composition of their biomass, and when activated by availability of liquid water, they influence the chemical composition of their environment according to these ratios. Nitrogen and phosphorus varied significantly in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems occurring on landscape surfaces across a wide range of exposure ages, indicating strong influences of landscape development and geochemistry on nutrient availability. Biota control the elemental ratio of stream waters, while geochemical stoichiometry (e.g., weathering, atmospheric deposition) evidently limits the distribution of soil invertebrates. We present a conceptual model describing transformations across dry valley landscapes facilitated by exchanges of liquid water and biotic processing of dissolved nutrients. We conclude that contemporary ecosystem stoichiometry of Antarctic Dry Valley soils, glaciers, streams, and lakes results from a combination of extant biological processes superimposed on a legacy of landscape processes and previous climates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ian Hawes</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daryl L. Moorhead</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sutherland, J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schmeling, J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schwartz, A</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benthic primary production in two perennially ice-covered Antarctic lakes: comparisons of annual accumulation predicted from photosynthesis models with estimates from internal growth markers</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antarctic Science</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2001</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18-27</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LTER49830</style></accession-num></record></records></xml>