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Phyto- and Zooplankton Composition and Some Ecological Observations on a Man-made Lake in Wadi el Majanin, Libya
✍ Scribed by Khan, M. A. ;Zarmouh, M. M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 432 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-4320
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✦ Synopsis
A't~j,/mury: The small eutrophic man-made lake in IVadi el Majanin, Libya h;is ii n-ell-buffered Ii~th~og.c~i-cnrboii~itc (98 ... I(i0 mg/l CrtCO,) system (pH= i ... i.8) niid A poor S ~c c h i visibility (21 ... 33 cm). Conductivity data (272 ... 480 ,uS/cm) fit t'he wxter-body in class 2 ('freshwater' r,tnge) of BEADLE. The m n u a l surface wxtcx temperaturc cycle (before noon readings) showed oiiiil varia.t.ions froin 12 "C: in Jan. arid Feb. 1986 to 28.3 'C in June, 1987. The Inlie siist;tiiiu a good crop of plankton popuhtions. The main pliytoplankt~o~i were species of Pediastrum,