Images of Amoebobacter and Copepods in Mahoney Lake ER #130

The images of Mahoney lake Ecological Reserve which appear on several Flickr sites suggest that it is a very unique ecosystem with unusual physical and biological characteristics. It is a meromictic lake, meaning a lake in which some water remains partly or wholly unmixed with the main water mass at the seasonal circulation periods, probably

Grazing of the copepod Diaptomus connexus on purple sulphur bacteria in a meromictic salt lake.

From:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11207740 Environ Microbiol. 1999 Jun;1(3):213-21. Grazing of the copepod Diaptomus connexus on purple sulphur bacteria in a meromictic salt lake. Overmann J, Hall KJ, Northcote TG, Beatty JT. Source Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. j.overmann@palmikro.icbm.uni-oldenburg.de Abstract A meromictic lake ecosystem (Mahoney Lake, BC, Canada) was investigated to elucidate the