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THE FISH POND EXPERIMENT: CHAPTER TWO
Author(s) -
Coleman A.W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.00001-45.x
Subject(s) - biology , temperate climate , fish <actinopterygii> , population , ecology , fishery , demography , sociology
Forty years ago, after 1 1/2 years of weekly surveys, a Baltimore fishpond was inoculated with three identifiable clones of Pandorina morum. The results of subsequent recollection attempts are published in Amer. Naturalist 118:761 (1981). More recently, molecular analyses have permitted characterization of the P. morum population that was endemic to the pond. The results, and their comparison with those from other P. morum sites, challenge some longstanding assumptions concerning the importance of various lifehistory stages to the introduction and maintenance of algal populations in temperate freshwater locales.