Microbial colonization on natural and artificial macrophytes in a phosphorus-limited, hardwater lake. [Potamogeton illinoensis]
Journal Article
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· J. Phycol.; (United States)
Epiphyte communities in a phosphorus-limited hardwater lake were compared over a 14-week period from Potamogeton illinoensis and structurally similar artificial plants of different leaf ages. Artificial plants were serially incubated in the lake to simulate the age of natural leaves. The physiognomy of loosely attached epiphytes appeared similar on the two substrata. Algal cell number and biovolume were 15-fold and 17-fold higher, respectively, on artificial leaves early in the growing season, but total algal density gradually became similar on natural and artificial plants. In contrast, the taxonomic composition of loosely attached algae became increasingly distinct, and mean cell biovolume on natural leaves was twice that on artificial leaves. Adnate epiphytes on both substrata developed from sparse populations of bacteria on new leaves to a community of diatoms, blue-green algae and numerous bacteria on mature and senescent leaves. Adnate community succession on natural leaves in late senescence/death differed from that on artificial leaves colonized for comparable periods in having (1) a marked increase in filamentous blue-green algae, (2) a subsequent decrease in all algae, and (3) a final fungi-dominated stage. The trends in colonization indicate that macrophytes in this oligotrophic lake provided a distinct habitat from that of artificial substrate for epiphytes throughout the growing season.
- Research Organization:
- Michigan State Univ., Hickory Corners (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6033048
- Journal Information:
- J. Phycol.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Phycol.; (United States) Vol. 25:1; ISSN JPYLA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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