Picophytoplankton predominance in hypersaline lakes (Transylvanian Basin, Romania)

B Somogyi, L Vörös, K Pálffy, G Székely, C Bartha… - Extremophiles, 2014 - Springer
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The occurrence and importance of photoautotrophic picoplankton (PPP, cells with a
diameter< 2 μm) was studied along a trophic and salinity gradient in hypersaline lakes of the
Transylvanian Basin (Romania). The studied lakes were found to be rich in PPP, with
abundances (maximum 7.6× 10 6 cells mL− 1) higher than in freshwater and marine
environments of similar trophic conditions. The contribution of PPP to the total phytoplankton
biovolume did not decrease with increasing trophic state as it was generally found in other …
Abstract
The occurrence and importance of photoautotrophic picoplankton (PPP, cells with a diameter <2 μm) was studied along a trophic and salinity gradient in hypersaline lakes of the Transylvanian Basin (Romania). The studied lakes were found to be rich in PPP, with abundances (maximum 7.6 × 106 cells mL−1) higher than in freshwater and marine environments of similar trophic conditions. The contribution of PPP to the total phytoplankton biovolume did not decrease with increasing trophic state as it was generally found in other aquatic environments. Regardless of the trophic conditions, the contribution of PPP could reach 90–100 % in these hypersaline lakes. We hypothesized that the PPP predominance might be the result of the low grazing pressure, since heterotrophic nanoflagellates (the main grazers of PPP) were absent in the studied samples. There were significant differences in community composition among the lakes along the salinity gradient. CyPPP predominated in less saline waters (mainly below 5 %), while EuPPP were present along the entire salinity range (up to 18.7 %), dominating the phytoplankton between 3 and 13 % salinity. Above 13 % salinity, the phytoplankton was composed mainly of Dunaliella species.
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