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Spatial And Temporal Patterns Of Benthic Diatom Flora In Lake Stechlin, Germany, Beáta Szabó, Judit Padisak, Géza B. Selmeczy, Lothar Krienitz, Peter Casper, Csilla Stenger-Kovács
Spatial And Temporal Patterns Of Benthic Diatom Flora In Lake Stechlin, Germany, Beáta Szabó, Judit Padisak, Géza B. Selmeczy, Lothar Krienitz, Peter Casper, Csilla Stenger-Kovács
Turkish Journal of Botany
Phytoplankton and planktonic centric diatoms of Lake Stechlin have been extensively studied, while attached diatoms have received much less scientific interest. In the present study, the composition of benthic diatoms and their diversity metrics were determined and compared along the shoreline of the lake in spring 2013 and autumn 2014. Overall, 118 taxa classified in 52 genera were found, of which 15 species belonged to threat categories of the Red List for Central Europe. Species richness (33 ± 4), Shannon diversity (2.47 ± 0.23), and species composition did not show any differences between different basins. Besides the spatial homogeneity, considerable …