SPATIAL AND SEASONAL CHANGES IN BACTERIOPLANKTON OF HEATED KONIŃSKIE LAKES
Keywords:
LAKE, HEATED WATER, POLLUTION, BACTERIOPLANKTON
Abstract
Thermal pollution considerably affected spatial and seasonal structure of bacterioplankton of two lakes used as cooling reservoirs for water discharged by coal power plants. Bacterioplankton was several times more numerous, and the average cell volumes were lesser comparing to bacteria of non-heated waters. Heating intensified
microbiological processes of the mineral and organic forms of basic nutrients.
