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Didymosphenia geminata in running waters of southern Poland – symptoms of change in water quality?

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The diatom Didymosphenia geminata has been reported in literature as a species of cold and oligotrophic waters. In the 1960s it was found in small quantities in southern Poland in oligotrophic, submontane and mountane waters, but was not found there in the years immediately afterwards. However, in the 1990s it unexpectedly appeared in the Carpathian tributaries of the River Vistula, which are mostly mesotrophic in character. In the River San it formed masses below the Solina and Myczkowce reservoirs, where changes in the trophic state had been observed for some years. It is concluded that D. geminata has a wider capacity for adaptation than has previously been assumed. Either the material in the R. San is a different ecotype or the underlying factors favouring the species are rather different from those assumed previously.

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Karol Starmach Institute of Freshwater Biology, Sławkowska 17, 31-016, Kraków, Poland

    Barbara Kawecka & Jacek Sanecki

  2. Municipal Waterworks in Krakow, Senatorska 1, 30-106, Krakow, Poland

    Jacek Sanecki

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Kawecka, B., Sanecki, J. Didymosphenia geminata in running waters of southern Poland – symptoms of change in water quality?. Hydrobiologia 495, 193–201 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025469500265

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