The effects of sewage pollution abatement on phytoplankton productivity and standing crop in Hillsborough Bay, Florida

Authors

City of Tampa Department of Sanitary Sewers

Document Type

Statistical Report

Publication Date

10-1979

Abstract

In September 1976, the City of Tampa initiated a comprehensive monitoring study of the ecology of the phytoplankton community of Hillsborough Bay. Numerous studies elsewhere have shown that phytoplankton are well suited as monitors of trophic state due to their rapid response to changing environmental conditions (Hohn, 1959; Williams, 1964; Margalef, 1968; Welch, 1968; Dunstan, 1975; Taslakain and Hardy, 1976). The present study is designed to relate changes in the phytoplankton community of Hillsborough Bay with the reduced nutrient load entering the Bay from the AWT facility.

Comments

Revised February 1986.

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Scholar Commons Citation

City of Tampa Department of Sanitary Sewers, "The effects of sewage pollution abatement on phytoplankton productivity and standing crop in Hillsborough Bay, Florida" (1979). Reports. 83.
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