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Algal Communities Along the Sava River

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Field analysis of phytoplankton and phytobenthos communities of the river Sava has been performed, from Slovenia to Serbia, in August 2011 and September 2012 at 20 localities. A total number of 256 taxa have been determined, from eight divisions: Cyanobacteria (20), Rhodophyta (1), Dinophyta (6), Cryptophyta (1), Chrysophyta (1), Bacillariophyta (152), Chlorophyta (67) and Euglenophyta (8). In the phytoplankton samples, 188 taxa have been identified and in the phytobenthos samples 153 taxa. The most diverse divisions of phytoplankton of the river Sava were Bacillariophyta (46.28 % of total taxa number) and Chlorophyta (34.57 % of total taxa number). Biomass of phytoplankton was low, and the abundance of phytoplankton communities varied between 65,000 and 412,000 Ind L−1. The biomass of phytoplankton of the river Sava was in the range of 41 to 564 μg fr. wt. L−1. The phytobenthos dominated by the division of Bacillariophyta, making 81.7 % of the community. Visible macroaggregations were composed of Cladophora glomerata (Chlorophyta) and Thorea hispida (Rhodophyta).

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Acknowledgements

Material was collected within the bilateral project “The assessment of the biocontamination degree of large rivers of Croatia and Serbia”, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia and Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia. This work was financed in part within the framework of projects III 43002 “Biosensing Technologies and Global System for Continuous Researches and Integrated Management of Ecosystems” and ON 173025 “Evolution in heterogeneous environments: mechanisms of adaptation, biodiversity conservation and biomonitoring”, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic Serbia.

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  1. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia

    Snežana B. Simić

  2. Institute of Public Health of Serbia “Dr Milan Jovanović Batut”, Belgrade, Serbia

    Vesna R. Karadžić

  3. Institute for Botany and Botanical Garden “Jevremovac”, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Mirko V. Cvijan

  4. Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Božica M. Vasiljević

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Simić, S.B., Karadžić, V.R., Cvijan, M.V., Vasiljević, B.M. (2015). Algal Communities Along the Sava River. In: Milačič, R., Ščančar, J., Paunović, M. (eds) The Sava River. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44034-6_10

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