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- Title
COMPARISON OF ATTACHED DIATOM COMMUNITIES ON NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES.
- Authors
Siver, Peter A.
- Abstract
A study of attached diatom communities on artificial and natural substrates was conducted in Wheel-wright Pond, New Hampshire, during 1975. There were differences in the species composition growing on artificial glass slides and natural substrates. The slides favored the accumulation of Achnanthes minutissima Kütz. and decreased the relative abundance of Eunotia incisa W. Sm. ex. Greg. and Cocconeis placentula v. euglypta (Ehr.) Cleve. Large growths of planktonic species were also noted on the slides. Compositional differences between slide positioned at 15-30 cm (upper) and 1 m (lower) from the surface of the water were minimal. A similar community composition of periphytic diatoms was found on five aquatic macrophytes.
- Subjects
DIATOMS; ARTIFICIAL substrates (Biology); PERIPHYTON; PLANKTON
- Publication
Journal of Phycology, 1977, Vol 13, Issue 4, p402
- ISSN
0022-3646
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1529-8817.1977.tb02949.x