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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

2002, Volume38

158 pages

Issue price - $369.00

The Nature and Patterns of the 'Melosira Years' Phenomenon in Lake Baikal

V. K. Yevstaf'yev
Limnological Institute Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences Irkutsk, Russia

N. A. Bondarenko
Limnological Institute, Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya St., 664033 Irkutsk, Russia

ABSTRACT

The mathematical analysis of the data for 1943-1999 revealed that the outburst s of phytoplankton productivity (PP), especially that of Melosira, observed in the southern part of Baikal are of resonance pattern. Dynamics of these bursts is obeyed the solar activity cycles of 3²/₃, 7¹/₃, and 11 years, which are divisibly conjugated with the periods of changes of magnetic poles of the Sun. The concept proposed enables the prediction of PP oscillations.