Table 5 Elemental composition of the polysaccharide fraction of snow algae in five samples (S1–S5): S1—Gulkana Glacier, S2—Harding Icefield.
From: Morphological and physicochemical diversity of snow algae from Alaska
Element | Gulkana Glacier | Harding Icefield | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# 1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | Average | SD | # 1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | Average | SD | |
C | 45.97 | 43.78 | 43.73 | 41.97 | 43.86 | ± 1.42 | 49.92 | 49.07 | 47.95 | 48.81 | 48.94 | ± 0.70 |
N | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.02 | 2.13 | 1.04 | ± 1.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.01 | 0.00 | 0.25 | ± 0.44 |
O | 50.96 | 52.34 | 51.12 | 52.00 | 51.61 | ± 0.58 | 49.74 | 50.62 | 50.9 | 50.9 | 50.54 | ± 0.48 |
Na | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.45 | 0.41 | ± 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | ± 0.01 |
Mg | 0.30 | 0.35 | 0.34 | 0.35 | 0.34 | ± 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.04 | ± 0.01 |
Al | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.26 | ± 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.03 | 0.07 | ± 0.03 |
Si | 0.47 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.54 | 0.54 | ± 0.04 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.09 | ± 0.02 |
S | 0.59 | 0.82 | 0.50 | 0.86 | 0.69 | ± 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.02 | ± 0.03 |
Cl | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.05 | ± 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | ± 0.00 |
K | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.18 | 0.16 | ± 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | ± 0.00 |
Ca | 0.81 | 1.06 | 0.74 | 1.09 | 0.93 | ± 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | ± 0.01 |
Fe | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.13 | ± 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ± 0.00 |
