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Table 3 Abundance, biomass, and taxonomic composition of phytoplankton and phytobenthos from Kanevskoe Reservoir, Ukraine

From: Feeding spectra of bivalve mollusks Unio and Dreissena from Kanevskoe Reservoir, Ukraine: are they food competitors or not?

 

Date

Number

Total abundance (10 3cells/L)

Total biomass (mg/L)

Order

Percent total abundance

Percent total biomass

Dominant species

Phytoplankton

9 June 2010

7

780

0.407

Dinophyta

2.3

72.3

Gymnodinium sp.

     

Bacillariophyta

16.7

24.5

 
     

Chlorophyta

81.0

3.2

 
 

16 June 2010

12

10,560

6.68

Bacillariophyta

42.2

56.8

Aulocoseira granulata

     

Dinophyta

2.3

20.2

Gymnodinium sp.

     

Cyanophyta

28.9

16.9

 
     

Euglenophyta

0.8

4.4

 
     

Chlorophyta

25.8

1.7

 
   

Total abundance (10 3 cells/m 2 )

Total biomass (g/m 2 )

    

Phytobenthos

09 June 2010

33

1,328,238

2.251

Bacillariophyta

79.8

90.9

Aulocoseira granulate

     

Chlorophyta

16.2

5.4

Aulocoseira ambigua

     

Euglenophyta

1.6

3.6

Amphora ovalis

     

Cyanophyta

2.4

0.06

 
 

16 June 2010

19

1,341,985

0.734

Bacillariophyta

27.4

85.7

Aulocoseira granulata

     

Chlorophyta

28.1

14.3

 
     

Cyanophyta

44.5

0.04

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