Lake Kinneret phytoplankton: Response to N and P enrichments in experiments and in nature |
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Authors: | U Pollingher T Berman B Kaplan D Scharf |
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Institution: | (1) Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, P.O. Box 345, 14102 Tiberias, Israel;(2) Department of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel |
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Abstract: | A series of water samples from Lake Kinneret was supplemented with 100 µM N (as NH4 or as NO3 and/or 10 µM orthophosphate-P. The yield of phytoplankton both as chlorophyll and in cell numbers of major species was determined after a two-week incubation. During these experiments, some of the algae present initially never multiplied (e.g. Peridinium and Peridiniopsis spp. Cryptomonas spp., Rhodomonas spp. and Crysochromulina
parva); others e.g. Anomoeoneis exilis, Synedra sp., Chlamydomonas sp., Elakatothrix gelatinosa), undetected in the original sample, grew out during the incubation. Chlorophyte species (the majority of commonly observed forms in the lake) responded most readily to added nutrients.The results of these enrichment experiments were related to the long-term record of phytoplankton populations observed in the lake and suggest that through summer and fall, when ambient levels of both P and N are minimal, P was generally, but not always, the most limiting nutrient for algal growth. In the spring, after the decline of the Peridinium bloom, P appeared to be limiting the growth of Chlorophyta. Although most algal species grew equally well on NH4 or NO3, some species appeared to respond preferentially either to the former (Coelastrum, Chodatella) or to the latter (Chroococcus, Anomoeoneis) source of N. |
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Keywords: | Phytoplankton Subtropical Lake Nitrogen Phosphorus Nutrient enrichment Chlorophyta Flagellates Cyanophyta Bacillariophyta |
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