Prolifération de rotifères épiphytes et pollution thermique dans la Loire

Abstract
Proliferation of epiphytic Rotifers and thermal pollution in the river Loire. Near confluence of the rivers Vienne and Loire, an heated effluent from nuclear-power industry raise the water temperature to 20-28 °C This rising temperature and abundant food supply (Diatoms algae) induces a seasonal intensive reproduction of a thermophilic Rotifer species : Lacinularia flosculosa. This epiphytic Rotifer proliferate — a density of 4250 females / cm2 was observed — and colonize ail submerged substrates : aquatic plants, roots, stones, somestimes over several kilometers down stream

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