Evaluation of Phytoplankton–Limiting Factors in Lake Chapala, México: Turbidity and the Spatial and Temporal Variation in Algal Assay Response
作者:
Laura Dávalos,
OwenT. Lind,
RobertD. Doyle,
期刊:
Lake and Reservoir Management
(Taylor Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 2
页码: 99-104
ISSN:1040-2381
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1080/07438148909354404
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Laboratory algal bioassays using both cultures ofAnkistrodesmus bibraianusand natural phytoplankton, and large, in-lake, container assays with natural populations, were used to determine the factor most limiting phytoplankton production in Lake Chapala, México. Both types of laboratory culture assays showed that nitrogen was the principal limiting nutrient at each station across this very large lake in all seasons. The growth response of natural phytoplankton was similar to that ofA.bibraianus. However, management practices to regulate the lake's productivity based solely upon this laboratory information would be inappropriate because the natural population assays showed that the ultimate limiting factorinsituis illumination controlled by the high clay turbidity. Rarely, if ever, was phytoplankton production controlled by the laboratory-determined limiting nutrient, nitrogen, expressed in the lake. The importance of performing algal assays extensively through time and space also was demonstrated. The nitrogen-augmented increase over controls inA.bibraianusbiomass ranged from less than 50 percent at the end of the dry season to greater than 1,000 percent in the middle of the rainy season. The average annual percent response at different sampling stations ranged from 438 percent to 541 percent. Also, the sample to sample variation was different for different stations. The variation coefficient was only 35 percent for the mid-lake station, but greater than 84 percent for the station nearer the source of river inputs.
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