Studies on the planktonic ecology of Lake Tanganyika
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Date
1978-12
Authors
Hecky, R.E.
Fee, E.J.
Kling, H.
Rudd, J.W.M.
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Winnipeg, Man. : Fisheries and Marine Service
Abstract
Two biological surveys were carried out on Lake Tanganyika. The first cruise was at the end of the wet season (April-May) when phytoplankton biomass was low and the second was at the end of the dry season (September-October) when biomass was high. The parameters measured were: temperature profiles, Secchi disk and quantum meter transparencies, chlorophyll, major ions and nutrients, phytoplankton, bacterial and protozoan biomass, primary production, plankton respiration rates, methane concentration profiles and methane oxidation rates.
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Tanzania, Tanganyika L., biological surveys, planktonology, primary production, fishery resources, plankton feeders, phytoplankton, chlorophylls, limnology, chemosynthesis, cruises, trophodynamic cycle