Abstract:

Ecological and palaeoecological studies were carried out in coastal lakes and adjacent areas in the Vestfold Hills (VH,68°38′S,78°06′E) at the Antarctic continent. Dynamics features of environmental geomorphology and physic chemical,the types of biological structures as well in those different lakes were analyzed. Marine macrofossils collected from terraces surrounding these lakes have radiocarbon ages from the Late Pleistocene were used for representing of evolutionary processes and models of the lakes after sea level changes and transgressions since 18000BP. It could be regarded as not only the history of environmental and ecological changes in VH coastal lakes,and also the reflection of local environmental change in Antarctic region and global climate changes in present time.