Stress and disturbance in the phytoplankton community of a shallow,hypertrophic lake |
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Authors: | Kirsten Olrik Arnold Nauwerck |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Environmental Biology ApS, Baunebjergvej 5, DK-3050 Humleboek, Denmark;(2) Institute of Limnology, Gaisberg 116, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria |
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Abstract: | The validity of Connell's intermediate disturbance hypothesis in phytoplankton communities was tested on data from a hypertrophic, shallow lake, Hjarbæk Fjord, Denmark.The present data from Hjarbæk Fjord demonstrate the difficulties in distinguishing stress from disturbance in a phytoplankton community, and show that great changes in the phytoplankton community can take place within few days.A collapse of blue-green algae in late June 1986 caused remineralization of nutrients and resulted in a rapid increase of fast-growing small chlorococcal green algae and phytoplankton species diversity, without any external disturbances acting on the lake. External disturbances in the form of wind action and brackish water intrusion occurred several days after the onset of these events. Carbon depletion and pH 11.0 were severe stress factors on the phytoplankton community. They were induced by calm, warm weather, but eventually acted as a kind of disturbance to the normally well circulated lake. |
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Keywords: | phytoplankton collapse species diversity mixotrophy CO2– depletion pH stress disturbance |
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