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Vol. 65, No. 12

Partitioning Effects during Terminal Carbon and Electron Flow in Sediments of a Low-Salinity Meltwater Pond near Bratina Island, McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica DOUGLAS O. MOUNTFORT,1* HEINRICH F. KASPAR,1 MALCOLM DOWNES,2 1 AND RODNEY A. ASHER Cawthron Institute, Nelson,1 and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch,2 New Zealand Received 21 June 1999/Accepted 19 September 1999

A study of anaerobic sediments below cyanobacterial mats of a low-salinity meltwater pond called Orange Pond on the McMurdo Ice Shelf at temperatures simulating those in the summer season (