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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2005, Volume41

124 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Metabolic Mechanisms of Relationship between Higher Aquatic Plants and Water Bloom Forming Blue-Green Algae

V. D. Romanenko
Instutute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 12, Geroyev Stalingrada Prosp., 04210 Kiev, Ukraine

A. I. Sakevich
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 12, Geroyev Stalingrada Prosp., 04210 Kiev, Ukraine

O. M. Usenko
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 12, Geroyev Stalingrada Prosp., 04210 Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

Intensive development of higher aquatic plants in continental water bodies is responsible for the increase in the content of polyphenols dissolved in water, which results in the decrease in the numbers of blue-green algae in plankton communities. Under aerobic conditions oxidation of polyphenols to appropriate quinones results in the increase in their biological activity. Changes in the structure of phytoplankton are conditioned by the difference in the response of various groups of algae to the influence of metabolites of higher aquatic plants.