Abstract
Comparative data analysis for phytoplankton of the Pregolya River and small rivers of the Pregolya River Basin in the late 1990s and in 2000s shows great influence of the Angrapa River water on the structure of phytoplankton of the Pregolya River compared to the Instruch River. Presumably, cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii is imported to the Pregolya River and further to the Curonian Lagoon via the Deima River from the Masurian Lakes in Poland, where the species has been one of the summer phytoplankton dominants since the 2000s. Information on the structure and quantitative development of phytoplankton of the Pregolya tributaries of the second and third order was obtained for the first time.
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Laboratory processing protocols of 44 phytoplankton samples from the lower reaches of the Pregolya River in April–October 1996–1997 by S. N. Semenova.
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One of the reasons for the high biomass is the use of the individual weight of cyanobacteria colonies of the genus Aphanocapsa in the calculations, with the colonies being three-dimensional structures of cells embedded in mucilage.
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The present work was only made possible by the collection of phytoplankton samples by the team of researchers at the Laboratory for Marine Ecology at AO IO RAS: E. Ezhova, M. Lyatun, N. Molchanova, M. Gerb, Y. Polunina, and others. The sampling was conducted during the monitoring of the Pregolya River in different years. Special thanks to S. N. Semyonova for analyzing samples from the 1990s.
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Lange, E.K. (2017). Phytoplankton Community of Small Rivers of the Pregolya River Basin. In: Gritsenko, V.A., Sivkov, V.V., Yurov, A.V., Kostianoy, A.G. (eds) Terrestrial and Inland Water Environment of the Kaliningrad Region. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 65. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2017_100
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