The epiphytic communities of various ecological types of aquatic vegetation of five pastoral ponds |
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Authors: | Beata Messyasz Natalia Kuczyńska-Kippen Barbara Nagengast |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, PL-61-614 Poznań, Poland;(2) Department of Water Protection, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, PL-61-614 Poznań, Poland |
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Abstract: | Five small water bodies located within the agricultural region of Wielkopolska (west Poland) underwent investigation. Periphyton
samples were collected from various macrophyte habitats representing rush vegetation (in five water bodies), submerged aquatic
plants (in three) and nymphaeids (in one): Palędzie — Ceratophyllum demersum, Potamogeton crispus, Typha latifolia; Batorowo — Phragmites australis; Piotrowo — Potamogeton natans, Ceratophyllum submersum, Typha latifolia; Tarnowo Podgórne — Typha latifolia; Dąbrówka — Zannichellia palustris, Potamogeton pectinatus, Phragmites australis.
The main goal of the study was to determine the composition and abundance of the periphytic communities inhabiting various
types of rush and water vegetation of five water bodies located within a mid-field landscape area.
Diatoms such as Achnanthidium minutissimum, Amphora ovalis, Cocconeis placentula orNavicula cincta revealed significantly higher densities in the zone of elodeids, while green algae prevailed among nymphaeids. As a result
of this study it was found that the epiphytic algae were characterised by much lower diversity in respect to a specific water
body, though much greater diversity was observed in its relation to the type of substratum. Two types of habitats were distinguished
— the first of simple build (helophytes and nympheids) and the second containing the complicated architecture of plant stems
(elodeids). |
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Keywords: | aquatic vegetation diatoms green algae periphyton pastoral pond |
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