MSc AEM
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Algal
List, Millport reservoirs, October/November 2007
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Napier University
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Collected during the MSc Aquatic Ecosystem Management's October 2007 field trip to the Marine Station
(For previous years' results:
click on the year 2002
2003 2004
2005 2006)
The class remit was to perform a microbiological examination of the tourist beaches, then come up with (theoretical) design recommendations for sewage treatment, and for drinking water purification based on an old reservoir. We sampled the algae as a guide to the quality of the fresh water supply. Camphill reservoir, in the hills near Largs, is the source of the current water supply for Cumbrae (piped under the channel).
Relative abundance of the algae is indicated.
New additions to the species list are illustrated where possible.
Reservoirs | Camphill |
Millport upper |
Millport Lower |
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Presumptive coliforms/100ml | ||||||
Temp. °C | 10.1 |
10.1 |
9.3 |
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pH | 6.8 |
7.8 |
8.2 |
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Conductivity µS | 92.6 |
232 |
239 |
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Species | Group | net plankton |
net plankton |
periphyton |
net plankton |
periphyton |
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Ankistrodesmus sp. | Chlorophyte |
+ |
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Asterionella formosa | diatom | + |
+ |
+ |
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Asterococcus |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Asterocystis (Chroodactylon) | Chlorophyte | + |
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Aulacoseira sp. | Diatom | +++ |
+ |
+ |
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Botryococcus sp. | Chlorophyte | + |
++ |
+ |
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Bulbochaete | Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
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Ceratium hirundinella | Dinoflagellate | + |
+ |
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Chamaesiphon | Cyanobacteria | + |
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Closterium moniliferum |
Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
+ |
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Closterium setaceum |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Closterium ?venus | Chlorophyte | + |
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Cocconeis placentula | Diatom | + |
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Coelastrum sphaericum | Chlorophyte | ++ |
+ |
+ |
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Coelosphaerium
(see also Woronichinia) |
Cyanobacteria | + |
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Cosmarium
depressum v. planctonicum |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Cosmarium
subcrenatum |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Cymatopleura
elliptica |
Diatom | + |
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Cymbella aspera | Diatom | + |
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Cymbella lanceolata | Diatom | + |
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Desmidium swartzii | Chlorophyte | + |
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Diatoma ?tenuis |
Diatom | + |
+ |
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Diatoma vulgaris |
Diatom | + |
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Dictyosphaerium |
Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
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Dinobryon sp. | Flagellate | + |
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Encyonema sp. | Diatom | + |
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Eudorina sp. | Flagellate | + |
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Fragilaria capucina | Diatom | ++ |
+ |
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Gomphonema truncatum | Diatom | + |
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Gyrosigma acuminatum | Diatom | + |
+ |
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Kirchneriella | Chlorophyte | + |
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Mallomonas caudata | Chrysophyte | + |
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Microcystis sp. | Cyanobacteria | ++ |
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Mougeotia 8µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
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Mougeotia
11µm. (conjugating) |
Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
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Mougeotia 14µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
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Mougeotia 16µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
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Mougeotia
22µm. |
Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
+ |
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Navicula ?subrhychocephala |
Diatom | + |
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Oedogonium 15µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
+ |
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Oedogonium 30µm. | Chlorophyte | ++ |
+ |
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Oscillatoria 8µm. | Cyanobacteria | + |
+ |
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Pediastrum angulosum | Chlorophyte | + |
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Pediastrum boryanum | Chlorophyte | + |
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Pediastrum duplex | Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
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Phormidium 8µm. | Cyanobacteria | + |
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Pleurotaenium trabecula |
Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
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Rhoicosphenia curvata | Diatom | + |
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Scenedesmus
sp. |
Chlorophyte | + |
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?Sphaerocystis |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Spirogyra 11 µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
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Spirogyra 20µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
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Spirogyra 25µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
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Staurastrum sp. | Chlorophyte | + |
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Staurastrum ?anatinum | Chlorophyte | + |
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Staurastrum ?avicula |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Staurastrum armigerum fo. furcigerum | Chlorophyte | + |
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Staurastrum ?brebissonii |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Staurastrum chaetoceras | Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
+ |
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Staurastrum planctonicum |
Chlorophyte | + |
+ |
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Stenopterobia sigmatella | Diatom | + |
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Stigeoclonium sp. |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Synedra sp. |
Diatom | + |
+ |
++ |
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Tabellaria fenestrata v. asterionelloides | Diatom | +++ |
+ |
+ |
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Tabellaria flocculosa | Diatom | + |
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Tetracyclus lacustris | Diatom | + |
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Ulothrix 11µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
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Woronichinia | Cyanobacteria | +++ |
+++ |
+++ |
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Xanthidium antilopaeum fo. depauperatum |
Chlorophyte | + |
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Zygnema 20µm. | Chlorophyte | + |
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John Kinross