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The study deals with phytoplankton biodiversity in mesotrophic Sartlan Lake, a large natural saline water body in the south of West Siberia. Two different approaches are used: floristic and ecological cenotic. The former is good for determining and analyzing the phytoplankton species composition. The latter gives a quantitative estimation of the phytoplankton biodiversity from the equation of information theory: \( H_b = - \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {\frac{{B_i }} {B}\log _2 \frac{{B_i }} {B}} \), where H b is the biodiversity (bits); B i is the population biomass of the species i; B is the entire phytoplankton community biomass (mg/l). A reliable stable negative correlation exists between the phytoplankton biomass and species diversity. Analytical equations and a diagram are given to illustrate the correlation between these values.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Ermolaev, 2009, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 623–628.
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Ermolaev, V.I. Correlation between algal species diversity index and phytoplankton community biomass in a mesotrophic lake (West Siberia, Russia). Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 2, 388–391 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425509040134
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