Long-term Vertical Distribution and Abundance of the Phytoplankton Community of Meromictic Mahoney Lake in South-Central British Columbia, with Some Recent Coverage on Nearby Blue Lake

摘要

Saline lakes have long fascinated naturalists, biologists, and limnologists studying them over the world. In the late 1830s Charles Darwin in his first book - "Journals of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited Duringthe Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World", noted their special features and importance. See especially the two page section covered from it by Grady (2007) who noted that Darwin's discovery of organisms living in the highly saline waters of the Argentinian Lake Salina convinced him of the tenacity of life and the wonders of adaptation. This focus led later to outstanding developments in the field of evolutionary science.