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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

2006, Volume42

126 pages

Issue price - $398.00

Assessment of the Degree of Anthropic Eutrophication of Floodplain Lakes in terms of Phytoplankton

N. V. Denisova
Birsk State Pedagogic Institute, Bashkirian State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation

F. B. Shkundina
Chair of Botany, Birsk State Pedagogic Institute, Bashkirian State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation

ABSTRACT

The species composition of phytoplankton, the quantitative indices of its development, and also its distribution, were studied in different floodplain lakes of the Belaya river (Bashkortostan, Russian Federation). A total of 302 species and varieties of algae was found in phytoplankton. Chlorophyta and Bacillariophyta were highly diverse in their species composition. Based on the indices of eutrophication, the studied lakes were assigned to mesotrophic and eutrophic water bodies. Based on the saprobic indices, they were assigned to β-mesosaprobic water bodies.