Recent blooms of the dinoflagellate Ceratium in Albert Falls Dam (KZN): History, causes, spatial features and impacts on a reservoir ecosystem and its zooplankton

Water SA

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 455-468

  Hart, Rob C ^a   Wragg, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate blooms; Ecosystem consequences; Eutrophication; Mitigation prospects; Plankton community composition; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CALANOID COPEPODS; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; CYCLOPOID COPEPODS; DAPHNIA; DINOFLAGELLATE BLOOMS; DISCHARGE PLUME; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; INFLOW WATERS; INTRINSIC DIFFERENCES; MESOTROPHIC; MGENI RIVER; MITIGATION PROSPECTS; N:P RATIO; NON-METRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; PLANKTON COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PLANT ORIGIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL FEATURES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES;

BIOLOGY; BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; DAMS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; FORESTRY; LAKES; OCEAN HABITATS; OXYGEN; PORPHYRINS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURVEYS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ALGAL BLOOM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DAM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DISCHARGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EUTROPHICATION; HISTORY; PLUME; POPULATION DENSITY; RESERVOIR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER QUALITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

AFRICA; ALBERT FALLS DAM; KWAZULU-NATAL; MGENI RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BOSMINA; CALANOIDA; CERATIUM; CERATIUM HIRUNDINELLA; CERIODAPHNIA; CHAOBORUS; CHYDORIDAE; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; DAPHNIA; DINOPHYCEAE; MOINA;

EID: 68649098539     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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