ARPHA Conference Abstracts

Yazarlar: Blagoy Uzunov, Maya Stoyneva-Gärtner, Georg Gärtner, Mariana Radkova, Katerina Stefanova

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DOI:10.3897/aca.2.e46680

Anahtar Kelimeler:Cyanobacteria,Cyanotoxins,Phytoplankton

Özet: The results from the investigation of the phytoplankton in nine shallow wetlands, situated in Central and Eastern Bulgaria, conducted in the frame of recent projects related to identifying harmful algal blooms and algal toxins in the country are demonstrated. Therefore, the focus is on the cyanoprokaryotes and their toxigenic species in particular. The species were identified using conventional light microscopy, while for distinguishing the toxigenic species and strains PCR-based molecular methods were applied. Cyanoprokaryotes comprised about 30% of the total phytoplankton biodiversity of the studied wetlands and were unevenly spread among them. The presence and spread of toxigenic strains in the studied wetlands also did not show any strong geographical pattern. Taxonomic problems related with the evaluation of the real cyanoprokaryotic biodiversity and potential alien or invasive character of the morphospecies are discussed.

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