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    Snow algae are a group of freshwater micro-algae that grow in the alpine and polar regions of the Earth. Snow algae have been found on every continent...
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    organisms are bacteria or archaea, but some eukaryotes such as lichens, snow algae, phytoplankton, fungi, and wingless midges, are also classified as psychrophiles...
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    Watermelon snow, also called snow algae, pink snow, red snow, or blood snow, is a phenomenon caused by Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae containing...
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    algae consisting of about 150 species of unicellular flagellates, found in stagnant water and on damp soil, in freshwater, seawater, and even in snow...
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  • Ice algae are any of the various types of algal communities found in annual and multi-year sea, and terrestrial lake ice or glacier ice. On sea ice in...
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  • Algae are a type of Protist. Algae may also refer to: Algae fuel, a biofuel Algae eaters, species that feed on algae Snow algae, cold-tolerant species...
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    Chlamydomonas nivalis (category Snow algae)
    one of the main algae responsible for causing the phenomenon of watermelon snow (also blood snow, raspberry snow), where patches of snow appear red or pink...
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    Algae (UK: /ˈælɡiː/ AL-ghee, US: /ˈældʒiː/ AL-jee; sg.: alga /ˈælɡə/ AL-gə) is an informal term for any organisms of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic...
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    Microbial growth, such as snow algae on glaciers and ice algae on sea ice can also cause a snow darkening effect. Melting caused by algae increases the presence...
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    (Mesenchytraeus solifugus) and the Yosemite snow worm (Mesenchytraeus gelidus). Ice worms eat snow algae and bacteria. They live at zero degrees Celsius...
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  • Victoria Tennant Red snow, a type of snow algae Watermelon snow, reddish snow caused by above type of snow algae 30 Days of Night: Red Snow, a prequel to the...
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    conditions with corn snow. Watermelon snow – Watermelon snow is reddish pink, caused by a red-colored green algae called Chlamydomonas nivalis. Not surprisingly...
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    the ocean many algae are found in freshwater both on the continent and on the subantarctic islands. Terrestrial algae, such as snow algae, have been found...
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    limited because of the ice cover, although snow algae are recorded. The remaining vegetation is located in snow-free areas such as nunatak ridges and other...
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    Not much is known about the ice worm's diet, but it is thought to eat snow algae, as well as some bacteria. Ice worms inhabit glaciers and can be found...
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    ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6934841. PMID 31882659. Takeuchi, Nozomu (2014). "Snow algae on Alaskan glaciers". Archived from the original on 29 March 2018. Retrieved...
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    endolith or endolithic is an organism (archaeon, bacterium, fungus, lichen, algae or amoeba) that is able to acquire the necessary resources for growth in...
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    Lichens grow on rocks. Algae including snow algae and cyanobacteria live on the penitentes, sometimes forming coloured patches, and algae and microbial mats...
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    bluegrass). Of the 700 species of algae in Antarctica, around half are marine phytoplankton. Multicoloured snow algae are especially abundant in the coastal...
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    Chloromonas (category Snow algae)
    of species are adapted to living on snow, making them snow algae. The most northerly location at which this algae has been observed is Lake Bienville...
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    feeds on substances such as cryoconite, pollen and plant remains and snow algae of the genus Chlamydomonas. The jet black animal is easy to spot on light...
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    Nedbalová is a Czech Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on snow algae. Nedbalová was born in 1976 in Prague (Czech Republic). She received her...
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    Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where...
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    Dinoflagellida. Botanists treated them as a division of algae, named Pyrrophyta or Pyrrhophyta ("fire algae"; Greek pyrr(h)os, fire) after the bioluminescent...
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  • star or a black hole". 20 May Researchers report estimations of green snow algae community biomass and distribution along the Antarctic Peninsula and project...
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    Algal bloom (redirect from Algae bloom)
    An algal bloom or algae bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in freshwater or marine water systems. It is often recognized...
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    meters (820 to 1,033 ft) and above lifeless snow desert, with occasional lichens on nunataks and snow algae on glacier surfaces. Trees, shrubs and tall...
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    commonest plants are lichens, followed by mosses and ice algae. In the Antarctic Peninsula, green snow algae have a combined biomass of around 1,300 t (2,900...
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    Chlainomonas (category Snow algae)
    a genus of algae in the family Chlamydomonadaceae. They are found in freshwater habitats or on snow, where they are one of the main algae responsible...
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    Steven K. (1 January 2019). "Nieves penitentes are a new habitat for snow algae in one of the most extreme high-elevation environments on Earth". Arctic...
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