Acta Botanica Croatica, Vol. 71 No. 2, 2012.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.2478/v10184-011-0070-5
Influence of environmental and spatial factors on the distribution of surface sediment diatoms in Chaohu Lake, southeast China
Xu Chen
orcid.org/0000-0002-8164-3088
; Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Xiangdong Yang
; State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China
Xuhui Dong
; State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China
Enfeng Liu
; State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China
Abstract
The spatial distribution of surface sediment diatoms in Chaohu Lake (southeast China), and their relationships with environmental and spatial variables were analyzed in this study. The diatom assemblages were dominated by planktonic species. Three dominant species Cyclostephanos dubius, Aulacoseira granulata and Aulacoseira alpigenaare unevenly distributed across the lake. The distribution of surface sediment diatoms must be subject to trophic status, hydrodynamics and other spatial variables in the lake.
Keywords
Aulacoseira; Cyclostephanos; diatom; sediment; distribution; Chaohu Lake
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87488
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Publication date:
1.10.2012.
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