The algae (&gt;55&amp;#181M) of an estuarine mariculture site in Southwestern Nigeria

Nwankwo, DI

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“…Nwankwo and Akinsoji (1992) reported the preponderance of water hyacinth in the Orile canal, storm water channel that drain part of Lagos mainland. In high brackish water zones of the Abule Agege and Five Cowries creek, Nwankwo (1991), Nwankwo and Gaya (1996) and Onyema and Nwankwo (2006) documented estuarine dinoflagellates notably, Ceratium spp. The possible impact of land based pollutants on benthic macrofauna in the Port Novo creek was described by Chukwu and Nwankwo (2004) while the temporal succession of phytoplankton at the Abule-Eledu creek Lagos was documented by Adesalu and Nwankwo (2008).…”

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“…According to Nwankwo and Amuda (1993), the creeks, creeklets and storm water channels of south-west Nigeria serve as conduits that drain flood water and land based pollutants into the coastal lagoons. The fresh water parts of these conduits serve as refugiumes for aquatic weeds while the more saline parts are inundated with halophytes (Nwankwo and Amuda, 1993;Nwankwo and Gaya;1996;Adesalu and Nwankwo, 2008). Egborge (1988) described the submerged roots of water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes (Mart,Solms) that heavily infested part of the Badagry creek as a biological museum of aquatic biota.…”

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Temporal variations in water chemistry and chlorophyll-a at the Tomaro creek Lagos, Nigeria

Nwankwo¹

2013

J. Ecol. Nat. Environ.

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Temporal variations of the water chemistry and chlorophyll-a dynamics at the Tomaro creek Lagos were investigated for six months (October, 2007 to March, 2008). Temperature remained high (>27°C) all through the sampled period while total suspended solids and transparency increased in the dry months. Total dissolved solids were high (≥8160 mg/L) between December and March while lower values (≤2529 mg/L) were recorded between October and November. Salinity, conductivity and pH values increased steadily during the sampled months. Chemical oxygen demand and biological oxygen demand values at the site remained low (<12.80 mg/L; ≤2.0 mg/L) between the period free of organic pollution and moderately (≤52.2 mg/L; 7.0 mg/L) organically polluted period. Heavy metals (Pb, Fe, Cu) especially Fe followed almost same pattern as chlorophyll-a recorded. Phytoplankton abundance dropped (80cells/ml) between November and December. Phytoplankton diversity was high while the species were evenly distributed.

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