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Phytoplankton in the small central Finnish lake, Vasikkalampi, was studied over a two-year period by weekly sampling simultaneously with monitoring of physical and chemical properties of water, solar radiation energy and zooplankton. In the present paper, the fluctuations in phytoplankton diversity were studied in relation to environmental factors. The special aim for the study was to detect a relation between environmental disturbances and phytoplankton diversity.
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Eloranta, P. (1993). Diversity and succession of the phytoplankton in a small lake over a two-year period. In: Padisák, J., Reynolds, C.S., Sommer, U. (eds) Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in Phytoplankton Ecology. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1919-3_4
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