Phytoplankton Recovery after Power Plant Entrainment

Natural populations of marine phytoplankton from the intake and discharge stations of two coastal power plants in southeastern Massachusetts all demonstrated the same degree of recovery when grown in continuous cultures with a defined artificial seawater medium. Neither populations exposed to elevat...ed temperatures nor those subject to chlorination and heat treatment showed any adverse permanent effects. The flora of phytoplankton species dominating in all samples for a particular experiment were consistently similar, indicating that alterations in the composition of phytoplankton species in receiving waters may be hardly measurable. It is concluded that entrainment effects on both phyto- and permanent zooplankton populations in receiving waters, because of their relatively rapid generation periods, are probably minor compared with the potentially major effects on larval plankton that spawn intermittently. Ausführliche Beschreibung Beschreibung ausblenden

1. Person:	Goldman, Joel C.
Weitere Personen:	Quinby, Helen L. verfasserin
Quelle:	in Journal (Water Pollution Control Federation) Vol. 51, No. 7 (1979), p. 1816-1823 Weitere Artikel
Format:	Online-Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	1979
Beschreibung:	Online-Ressource
Schlagworte:	research-article Chlorination Heat Marine environment Phytoplankton Plankton Power (electric)
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