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In a pond receiving warmed cooling waters from a thermal power plant, the physical and chemical properties of the water, phytoplankton, periphyton and zooplankton were monitored on a weekly sampling schedule. In winter the phytoplankton growth was limited by poor light conditions. In mid-February a rapid phytoplankton growth started, simultaneously with increasing light energy, high nutrient concentrations and small herbivorous zooplankton populations. The increase of phytoplankton biomass was stopped by lack of free nutrients and silica at the end of March. From May until August the phytoplankton standing crop was mainly regulated by herbivorous zooplankton. The autumnal maximum of phytoplankton occurred with decreasing zooplankton populations, increasing nutrient concentrations, a turbulence favourable for diatoms and high water temperature.
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Eloranta, P. Seasonal succession of phytoplankton in an ice-free pond warmed by a thermal power plant. Hydrobiologia 86, 87–91 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00005792
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