Knowledge to Ecological Preferences in a Tropical Epiphytic Algae to Use with Eutrophication Indicators

In Ayapel floodplain periphyton associated to macrophyte roots on the basis of material was collected in fourteen sampling sites in nine moments of compilation. From the analysis of the samples were recorded 550 algal species, of which 56% were diatoms. Furthermore it was valued relative abundances...

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Published in:Journal of environmental protection (Irvine, Calif.) Calif.), 2013-11, Vol.4 (11), p.27-35
Main Authors: Montoya-Moreno, Yimmy, Aguirre-Ramírez, Néstor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actinella
Bacillariophyceae
Encyonema
Euastrum sinuosum
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Summary:In Ayapel floodplain periphyton associated to macrophyte roots on the basis of material was collected in fourteen sampling sites in nine moments of compilation. From the analysis of the samples were recorded 550 algal species, of which 56% were diatoms. Furthermore it was valued relative abundances of taxa and the average physicochemical variables to identify the optimal values and tolerance ranges of species. In the case of nitrates optimal value was below 2 mg/L for all algae except for Actinella sp. and Euastrum sinuosum which optimal values were close to zero with low variability. Regarding all species the algal nitrite concentration showed optimum values below 2 mg/L except Encyonema minutum and E. sinuosum whose optimum were 0.4 and 0.5 mg/L respectively. About nitrogen as ammonia was repeated the above situation, i.e. optimum values below 2 mg/L except for E. minutum and E. sinuosum.
ISSN:2152-2197
2152-2219
DOI:10.4236/jep.2013.411A004