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Seasonal correlations of elemental and ω3 PUFA composition of seston and dominant phytoplankton species in a eutrophic Siberian Reservoir

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The elemental and fatty acid composition of seston was studied for 3 years, from May to October, in a small Reservoir. Under comparatively low C:P ratio, multivariate canonical analysis revealed no straightforward simple correlations between phosphorus and single ω3 PUFA species, but complex significant interaction between elemental composition (stoichiometry) of seston and total sestonic ω3 PUFA as a whole. Since sestonic C, P and N were found to originate mostly from phytoplankton, the contents of particulate elements and PUFA were attributed to single species in periods of their pronounced dominance. Phytoplankton species of genera of Stephanodiscus, Peridinium, Gomphosphaeria, Planktothrix and Anabaena in periods of their pronounced dominance had relatively constant species-specific elemental and PUFA composition. Phytoplankton species significantly differed in their elemental and PUFA composition, as well as in ratios of C:N, N:P, PUFA:P and partly C:P that indicate food quality for zooplankton. Hence, there were no phytoplankton species of clearly high or low nutritional value. All of phytoplankters, or at least detritus, that originated from them, may meet specific elemental and biochemical requirements of specific groups of zooplankton. Dividing phytoplankton on basis of their elemental and biochemical composition, i.e., nutrition quality, into large taxa (cyanobacteria, diatoms, etc.) appeared to be too coarse for assessing nutritional value for zooplankton.

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We used GC-MS of Joint Equipment Unit of Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. The work was supported by award No. REC-002 of the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CRDF) and the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Russian Federation, a grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) No. 04-04-48550, by a grant “Universities of Russia” No. UR.07.01.100 from the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Russian Federation and by a personal grant of the Russian Science Support Foundation for young candidates of science (Ph.D.), a personal grant of the President of the Russian Federation (MK-1846.2003.04) for young scientists and their scientific advisers, and by a personal grant of Krasnoyarsk Regional Science foundation for young scientists. We are grateful to Dr. Ramesh Gulati, to Dr. William R. DeMott and two anonymous Reviewers for their helpful comments to improve the manuscript.

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  1. Institute of Biophysics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    Michail I. Gladyshev, Nadezhda N. Sushchik, Andzhela A. Kolmakova, Galina S. Kalachova, Elena S. Kravchuk & Olesia N. Makhutova

  2. Krasnoyarsk State University, Svobodny av. 79, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia

    Michail I. Gladyshev

  3. Krasnoyarsk State Agricultural University, Mira av., 88, Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia

    Elena A. Ivanova

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Gladyshev, M.I., Sushchik, N.N., Kolmakova, A.A. et al. Seasonal correlations of elemental and ω3 PUFA composition of seston and dominant phytoplankton species in a eutrophic Siberian Reservoir. Aquat Ecol 41, 9–23 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-006-9040-8

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