✦ LIBER ✦
Phytoplankton periodicity in Ogelube Lake, Anambra State, Nigeria during 1979–1980
✍ Scribed by S. Biswas
- Book ID
- 104613650
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Volume
- 246
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5141
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✦ Synopsis
169
Ogelube is a tropical oligotrophic lake having a desmid dominated phytoplankton with maximum density during the warmest season. During the rainy season, the lake cools, phytoplankton declines and dominance shifts to algae other than desmids. The lake cools further as harmattan advances, while phytoplankton reaches its minimum, suggesting water temperature to be more important than other environmental conditions. Decrease in phytoplankton density with falling water temperature was probably due to slower reproduction, rather than to increased death rate.