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Chrysophyta - : Ochromonas and Chromulina
Chrysophyta - : Ochromonas and Chromulina
Chrysophyta - : Ochromonas and Chromulina
Dinobryon
Ecology of Chrysophytes
Common in the plankton of lakes especially during the colder parts of the year
May occasionally form blooms that colour the water brown and give taste and
odour problems—Eg Ochromonas
Acid lakes and bogs, support a diverse Chrysophyte community, most important
primary producers in such systems.
Pyrrophyta--Dinoflagellates
•Cells fairly large (>25 microns)
•Nucleate (1),
•Cellulose wall often present
•Cells with grooves (sulci) within which flagellae lie
•Chloroplasts, 2 or more small disc shaped, brown
to golden brown (chlorophyll a, c, plus
carotenoids),
•Food stored as starch and oils
•Cells often emitting bioluminescence
•Cells very motile (8 mm/sec)
40-60 microns
Gonyaulax—causes red tides, shellfish poisoning in estuaries
Cells about 25-30 microns
Ecology of dinoflagellates
Very motile can usually maintain their position in the water column if they remain
near the thermocline where turbulence is not too great
Many species are heterotrophic and mainly live by ingesting bacteria (phagocytosis),
many such species have little chlorophyll.
Submerged macrophytes
Ceratophyllum
demersum
Floating leaved macrophytes
Nuphar luteum
Emergent macrophytes
Typha--cattails