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Botryococcus braunii has a cosmopolitan distribution in modern permanent to semipermanent ponds, lakes and rivers ranging from tropical to arctic latitudes (Blackburn, 1936; Aaronson et al., 1983, p. 694). It is most abundant in slow-flowing and lacustrine regimes (Traverse, 1992, p. 123). It is most characteristic of oligotrophic lakes (Hutchinson, 1967, pp. 381, 386; Wake and Hillen, 1981, p. 353; Wetzel, 1983, p. 353), but has also been recorded from mesotrophic waters (Round, 1981, pp. 267, 273, 279; Komárek and Marvan, 1992, p. 65). Wetzel (1983, p. 353) indicates that it is most abundant in neutral or slightly alkaline lakes, but it can occur over a pH range of 4–10 (Belcher, 1968, p. 345; Crisman, 1978, p. 447; Wake and Hillen, 1980, p. 1651; Bauld et al., 1985, p. 15). It appears to be most abundant in soft or ‘semi-hard’ waters (Prescott, 1951, p. 232; Crisman, 1978, p. 448).
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Tyson, R.V. (1995). Distribution of the Palynomorph Group: Phytoplankton Subgroup, Chlorococcale Algae. In: Sedimentary Organic Matter. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0739-6_16
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