TY - JOUR N2 - The highest concentrations of algal cells (1.1 x l0 6 litre- 1 ) and of algal carbon (20 μg litre -1 ) were associated with a lens of ice melt water in the northeast of the study area. Phytoflagellates were dominant at all stations with greater numbers always in the 0 - 20 m surface layer and with the peaks of Cryptophyceae in the open waters and also near the ice edge east of 50° W. Picoplankton flagellates and monads (1.5-5.0 μ) were generally next in abundance and most important numerically in the near ice stations in the western part of the study area. Parasinophyceae were usually more abundant than Nitzschia cylindrus (Grunow) Hasle, the only common diatom species found mainly in the western near ice edge stations. The presence olN.cylindrus, dominant in the pack ice and in phytoplankton near the ice edge, shows that algae released from ice may act as an inoculum for the phytoplankton. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111152/PDF/1991-4_515-528.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111152 PY - 1991 IS - No 4 EP - 528 KW - Antarctic KW - phytoplankton KW - sea-ice zone A1 - Kopczyńska, Elżbieta PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 12 DA - 1991 T1 - Distribution of microflagellates and diatoms in the sea-ice zone between Elephant Island and the South Orkney Islands (December 1988 - January 1989) SP - 515 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/111152 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -