Maintenance of High Phytoplankton Diversity in the Danubian Floodplain Lake over the Past Half-Century
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Environmental Characteristics
2.2. Phytoplankton Diversity and Dominant Taxa
2.3. Interannual Variation of Biomass and Diversity
2.4. Similarity Indices
2.5. Ordination
3. Discussion
3.1. Total Diversity
3.2. Diversity Drivers
3.3. Diversity Stressor—Anthropogenic Impact
3.4. Herbivore Pressure
3.5. Invasive Species
3.6. Global Change
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Study Site
4.2. Sampling and Field Analyses
4.3. Laboratory Analyses
4.4. Data Analyses
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Taxonomic Group | Species |
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Cyanobacteria | Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Bornet and Flahault |
Dolichospermum planctonicum (Brunnthaler) Wacklin, L.Hoffmann and Komárek | |
Dolichospermum solitarium (Klebahn) P.Wacklin, L.Hoffmann and J.Komárek | |
Limnothrix redekei (Goor) Meffert | |
Planktolyngbya limnetica (Lemmermann) J.Komárková-Legnerová and G.Cronberg | |
Planktothrix agardhii (Gomont) Anagnostidis and Komárek | |
Pseudanabaena limnetica (Lemmermann) Komárek | |
Raphidiopsis raciborskii (Wołoszyńska) Aguilera et al. | |
Euglenophyta | Trachelomonas oblonga Lemmermann |
Trachelomonas volvocina (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg | |
Dinophyta | Gymnodinium sp. |
Peridinium aciculiferum Lemmermann | |
Cryptophyta | Cryptomonas erosa Ehrenberg |
Cryptomonas ovata Ehrenberg | |
Cryptomonas sp. | |
Plagioselmis nannoplanctica (Skuja) G.Novarino, I.A.N.Lucas and Morrall | |
Chrysophyceae | Chrysococcus rufescens Klebs |
Dinobryon divergens O.E.Imhof | |
Synura uvella Ehrenberg | |
Bacillariophyceae | Aulacoseira granulata (Ehrenberg) Simonsen |
Aulacoseira sp. | |
Lindavia comta (Kützing) T.Nakov et al. | |
Melosira varians C.Agardh | |
Stephanocyclus meneghinianus (Kützing) Kulikovskiy, Genkal and Kociolek | |
Stephanodiscus hantzschii Grunow | |
Ulnaria acus (Kützing) Aboal | |
Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch) Compère | |
Chlorophyta | Pandorina morum (O.F.Müller) Bory |
1972/1973–1977/1978 | 1977/1978–2007/2008 | 1972/1973–2007/2008 | |
Sørensen’s similarity coefficient (Ss; %) | 46.31 | 34.19 | 39.71 |
Jaccard’s similarity coefficient (Sj; %) | 30.13 | 20.62 | 24.78 |
1972/1973 | 1977/1978 | 2007/2008 | |
Hill’s diversity number one (N1) | 3.36 | 3.14 | 3.24 |
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Mihaljević, M.; Špoljarić Maronić, D.; Stević, F.; Žuna Pfeiffer, T.; Zahirović, V. Maintenance of High Phytoplankton Diversity in the Danubian Floodplain Lake over the Past Half-Century. Plants 2024, 13, 2393. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13172393
Mihaljević M, Špoljarić Maronić D, Stević F, Žuna Pfeiffer T, Zahirović V. Maintenance of High Phytoplankton Diversity in the Danubian Floodplain Lake over the Past Half-Century. Plants. 2024; 13(17):2393. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13172393
Chicago/Turabian StyleMihaljević, Melita, Dubravka Špoljarić Maronić, Filip Stević, Tanja Žuna Pfeiffer, and Vanda Zahirović. 2024. "Maintenance of High Phytoplankton Diversity in the Danubian Floodplain Lake over the Past Half-Century" Plants 13, no. 17: 2393. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13172393