THE PHYTOPLANKTON OF GREAT POND, MASSACHUSETTS
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- 1 April 1956
- journal article
- other
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 110 (2) , 157-168
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1538977
Abstract
1. Determinations of phytoplankton concentrations were made throughout 1950 in Great Pond, a small estuary near Falmouth, Massachusetts. 2. Greater concentrations occurred within Great Pond than in the ocean water at its entrance. This difference was greatest in summer. 3. During fall, winter, and spring the same species populated the waters of the ocean and the Pond, but during the summer an assemblage of species flourished within the Pond that was never found in the ocean water and was not characteristic of the river water. 4. The Pond-derived flora of summer contained a large proportion of flagellates, whereas the Sound-derived flora was composed completely of diatoms. 5. The preponderance of motile forms within the Pond during summer was attributed to good growth conditions, which stimulated an endemic flora, and to shoal, quiet water, which should favor the non-settling type of cell.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: