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Periphyton growth and diatom community structure in a cooling water pond
Authors:Pertti V Eloranta
Institution:1. Department of Biology, University of Jyv?skyl?, Yliopistonk. 9, SF-40100, Jyv?skyl?, 10, Finland
Abstract:Periphyton (Aufwuchs) accumulation was measured on artificial substrates in a pond in central Finland which receives warm cooling-water effluent from a power plant. The growth of periphyton was generally more rapid on the substrates during the first two weeks of colonization near the inflow of the warm water effluent than in the middle of the pond. The maximum accumulation of periphyton was in spring and autumn (dry weight maximum at warm effluent was in spring 3.5 mg DW cm?2,2.65 mg AFDW cm?2; chlorophyll a maximum 3.96 µg cm?2 was found in autumn at pond-middle station). During mid-winter months the growth was strongly limited by solar radiation, but the growth was also slow at both stations in the summer months, when the power plant was out of operation. The periphyton accumulation rate was fastest near the water surface and decreased rapidly with increasing depth. A total of 167 diatom species were found in periphyton samples. However, most species were rare; many of the dominants were common to both plankton and periphyton. Species similarity analyses (Jaccard's similarity) between 10 different diatom communities (including periphyton from 9 different types of substrates and phytoplankton) indicated low similarity index values although differences between communities were not significant.
Keywords:periphyton  artificial substrates  diatoms  thermal effluents
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