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Algae from two different sources, Peoria and Farmington, Illinois, exhibited distinctively different response patterns to Zn toxicity. This study was undertaken to find the cause of the variation. The first experiment confirmed that algae, not water sample, were the cause of the variation in response. Additional experiments proved that when the Peoria algae were acclimated to a low Zn environment, they behaved like the Farmington algae. The Farmington algae behaved like the Peoria algae if they were allowed to acclimate in water samples containing higher Zn concentrations. The results indicate that the toxic response of an algal community is greatly dependent upon specific environment and algal acclimation to it, regardless of the origin of algal sources.
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Wang, W. Acclimation and response of algal communities from different sources to zinc toxicity. Water Air Soil Pollut 28, 335–349 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00583499
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