Water Trophic States and Biological Indicators of Phytoplankton at Six Reservoirs in Gyeonggi-do

doi:2007.22.2.69

Algae > Volume 22(2); 2007 > Article

Algae 2007;22(2): 69-85. doi: https://doi.org/10.4490/algae.2007.22.2.069

An Suk Lim and Ok-Min Lee^*

Department of Biology, Kyonggi University, Suwon, 443-760, Korea

ABSTRACT

From six reservoirs in Gyeonggi-do, we have collected the distribution and standing crop of phytoplankton since Nov. 2005 through Sep. 2006. As a result, the phytoplankton appeared totally 340 taxa belong to 7 classes, 15 orders, 5 suborders, 32 families, 4 subfamilies, 84 genera, 283 species, 43 varieties, 9 forms and 5 unidentified species. The standing crop was shown as minimum was 0.3 × 106 cells and maximum was 5,950 × 106. The relation of standing crop with TN, TP and Chl-a showed as positive. Total 12 taxa including 2 taxa of blue-green algae occurred to every seasons at six lakes, and it was thought that they distributed in mesotrophic state. Also, Achnanthes minutissima, Aulacoseira granulata, Eudorina elegans, Gloeocystis ampla, Pandorina morum, Pediastrum simplex var. duodenarium, Scenedesmus ecornis were regarded as the indicators of eutrophic state. From the estimation of LTSI and TSI, it was shown that the rest of lakes except for Idong reservoir of winter were eutrophic states.

Key words: biological indicator, eutrophic state, mesotrophic state, standing crop