%0 Journal Article
%T Seasonal Partitioning of Primary Production and Biomass between Phytoplankton and Metaphyton in a Shallow Lake Agmon, Hula Valley (Israel)
%A Y. Yehoshua
%A M. Gophen
%J Open Journal of Modern Hydrology
%P 66-81
%@ 2163-0496
%D 2018
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojmh.2018.82006
%X Agmon is a small, shallow man-made lake (area: 1.1 km<sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">2</span></sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">; mean
depth </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">0.45</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> m), excavated in the peat soils of the Hula Valley in northern Israel,
that was filled with water in A</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">ugust</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 1994. We followed the seasonal variations in phytoplankton and
metaphyton biomass, primary production and related environmental conditions </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">between</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> December
1995 </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">and</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> July 1997. Water temperature ranged </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">between</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 9.5<span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">¡ã</span>C -</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">30.8<span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">¡ã</span>C</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">;</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> pH ranged </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">between</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 7.2</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">8.6. The algae in Lake Agmon were characterized by
seasonal alterations between summer-fall phytoplankton blooms and spring
proliferation of benthic algal mats, with a winter clear-water phase.
Chlorophyll </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">a</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> content in the water,
as a measure of planktonic algal biomass, was low in winter (1.75 </span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 5</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">¦Ìg<span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">¡¤</span>L</span><sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-1</span></sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">) and high in summer (&gt;100</span></span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">¦Ìg<span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">¡¤</span>L</span><sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-1</span></sup><span
%K Chlorophyll a
%K Agmon
%K Metaphyton
%K Phytoplankton
%K Primary Production
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=84001