Composition of phytoplankton communities and their contribution to secondary productivity in Carolina Bays on the Savannah River Plant

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6645195

Williams, J B

This three-year collaborative project with Savannah River Ecology Lab (SREL) has an overall goal to determine the importance of phytoplankton (microscopic algae) as a component of the food chain base in SRS Carolina Bays. The importance of zooplankton (microscopic crustacean herbivores) to the early life stages of amphibians in these Carolina Bays has been determined by previous investigators and ongoing SREL studies. Our project is testing hypotheses that phytoplankton compose the most important part of zooplankton diets in SRS bays. Considerable progress has been made on each of the YEAR TWO proposal objectives. Proposed work for one of the objectives will not be completed by the end of the project year due to the high work volume required for the stable isotope sampling. All sampling for primary productivity and stable isotope analyses has been completed. However, scheduled samples for the hotter summer temperatures during July were not collected due to the fact that Flamingo, Ellenton, and Rainbow Bays had already dried up. Progress for each of the Proposal Year One objectives is summarized in this report along with summaries for supplemental objectives. Detailed discussions of methodology and results are also found in the report. 11 refs., 6 figs.

• Research Organization: South Carolina State Coll., Orangeburg, SC (USA). Dept. of Natural Sciences
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: FG09-88SR18049
• OSTI ID: 6645195
• Report Number(s): DOE/SR/18049-2; ON: DE90017262
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ALGAE
POPULATION DYNAMICS
BAYS
SAMPLING
PHYTOPLANKTON
PRODUCTIVITY
ABUNDANCE
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CARBON 12
CARBON 13
COMMUNITIES
CULTURE MEDIA
FOOD CHAINS
HABITAT
PONDS
PROGRESS REPORT
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
STABLE ISOTOPES
ZOOPLANKTON
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
CARBON ISOTOPES
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECOSYSTEMS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEI
PLANKTON
PLANTS
SURFACE WATERS
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
VARIATIONS
540310* - Environment
Aquatic- Basic Studies- (1990-)
550700 - Microbiology