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
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