AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-2014-11_2_06
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Seasonal Variation of Phytoplankton Diversity in  Relation to Eutrophication of Mathura Beel,  a Floodplain Lake in West Bengal, India

Sudipta Kumar Maiti1,4 Sarmistha Saha1,2,3,5* Suman Adkikary1 Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay2 Tapan Saha1
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1 Institute of Environmental Studies and Wetland Management, Department of Environment Govt. of West Bengal, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700064, India
2 Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata – 700019, India
3 Ecology Research Unit, Zoology Department, University of Calcutta, Kolkata – 700019, India
4 Raja N.L. Khan Women’s College, Midnapore, West Bengal
5 Syamaprasad College, Kolkata, India
AJWEP 2014, 11(2), 37–44; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-2014-11_2_06
Submitted: 7 March 2013 | Accepted: 5 March 2014 | Published: 1 January 2014
© 2014 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Current study deals with the phytoplankton structure and seasonal variation in Mathura Beel (wetland), a floodplain lake in Gangetic plane of West Bengal, India. The generic composition of phytoplankton was studied monthly during August 2008 to February 2011. All the relevant calculations were done according to three seasons viz. pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon. A total of 96 species belonging to 87 genera were identified under six algal classes. Chlorophyceae showed their maximum species diversity with 45% whereas the Cyanophycean algae showed maximum relative density i.e. 93.11% throughout the study period with Microcystis aeruginosa
(45.08%) followed by Aphanocapsa rosena (15.53%). Phytoplankton species of Bacillariophyceae, Euglenophyceae, the study period. Dominance of cyanophycean algae (Microcystis sp.) has been found to be the main reason of eutrophication in Mathura beel.

Keywords
Mathura beel
cyanophyceae
phytoplankton
eutrophication
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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