Attached Algae of the Lake Erie Shoreline Near Nanticoke Generating Station

Periphyton of Freshwater Ecosystems

“…Ulothrix zonata was the most common filamentous green alga reported in a survey of the north shore of Lake Superior (Parker 1979). A similar seasonal pattern was reported by and by Kirby & Dunford (1981) at sites close to a power generating station on the northeastern shore of Lake Erie, where UIothrix persisted together with Cladophora at water temperatures up to 15 ° C. At Harbor Beach, Michigan on Lake Huron, Auer et al (1982) reported that Ulothrix first occurred on March 25 near the discharge point of a wastewater treatment plant. In western Lake Erie, Taft & Kishler (1973) observed that cold-water dominant Ulothrix was replaced by Cladophora when water temperatures reached 10° C in spring; U. zonata resumed growth in shallow water in the fall.…”

AN ECOLOGICAL REVIEW OFCLADOPHORA GLOMERATA(CHLOROPHYTA) IN THE LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES1

“…dominated the shallow littoral periphyton communities (Gerloff andFitzgerald 1976, Jackson et al 1990). These species are more tolerant of cooler ambient water temperatures than Cladophora, and in the lower Great Lakes, they were dominant during the early spring before Cladophora growths were extensive (Kirby and Dunford 1981, Blum 1982. In Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron, Sheath et al (1988) noted that while 15 macroalgal species were found, only Cladophora (92%) and Chara globluaris ⁄ vulgaris (7%) contributed significantly to the total macroalgal standing crop.…”

“…1990). These species are more tolerant of cooler ambient water temperatures than Cladophora , and in the lower Great Lakes, they were dominant during the early spring before Cladophora growths were extensive (Kirby and Dunford 1981, Auer et al. 1982, Blum 1982).…”

Niche partitioning, shape of species response, and diversity in the phytobenthos across the rocky shoreline of a large peri-Alpine lake

“…Marshall, 1978;Füreder, 1995), and a few with microalgae (e.g. Cantonati et al, 2009;Rott and Pernegger, 1994), but those dealing with macroalgae are rare (however, see Blum, 1982;Kirby and Dunford, 1981;Stewart and Lowe, 2008;Higgins et al, 2008).…”