For water content
phytoplankton study, the water samples were collected directly in a 500 ml plastic bottle and preserved with 2% of Lugol's solution.
Professor Aaron Bartholomew, who specialises in marine sciences, said that the creatures they saw were a specific type of
phytoplankton called dinoflagellates.
Carbon dioxide and bicarbonate are not the same chemically, which means that the amount of carbon dioxide available to
phytoplankton during photosynthesis can be low.
This makes the Mediterranean a reliable natural laboratory for studying
phytoplankton communities at fronts.
The water is the clearest in June, owing to the low content of
phytoplankton at this time.
It should be noted that the new water treatment plant is provided with modern system for eliminating
phytoplankton. The produced quantities are expected to set off the possible shortage due to the discontinuation of the plants.
As certain types of
phytoplankton can make marine organisms poisonous to humans, the Ministry urges fishermen and beachgoers to refrain from fishing and collecting shellfish for consumption in the areas of red tide.
These conditions are conducive to high evaporation rates and long reservoir water residence times, and significantly influence lacustrine
phytoplankton organization (Bouvy, Falcao, Marinho, Pagano, & Moura, 2000), they favor cyanobacterial blooms in dry periods.
Keywords:
Phytoplankton, zooplankton, ammonium, sulfates, phosphates, freshwater shrimps, diversity
But as the experiment continued, the
phytoplankton began making less and less shell material.