Interactions of carbon and nitrogen metabolism with changing light intensity in natural populations and cultures of planktonic blue-green algae
This study dealt with the factors contributing to the occurrence of blue-green algae in the plankton of lakes. Blue-green algal populations were examined in two different aquatic systems, moderately productive Lawrence Lake and hypereutrophic Wintergreen Lake, with regard to inorganic nitrogen source, light intensity and regime, and species of blue-green algae present. In order to understand the relationship between light and nitrogen source better among natural populations, representative species of blue-green algae, including isolates of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, Microcystis aeruginosa, and Anabaena flos-aquae, were grown in laboratory cultures under continuously high, variable, and continuously low light at intensities similar to those in the lakes.
- Research Organization:
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing (USA). Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology
- DOE Contract Number:
- EY-76-S-02-1599
- OSTI ID:
- 5465880
- Report Number(s):
- COO-1599-139(Pt.3)
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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