A preliminary study on diversity and ecology of soil diatoms in urban habitats

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Authors	CHATTOVÁ Barbora UHER Bohuslav
Year of publication	2013
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	ŠTUDENTSKÁ VEDECKÁ KONFERENCIA PriF UK 2013 Zborník recenzovaných príspevkov
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Botany
Keywords	Diatoms; soil; urban habitats; species composition; cultivation
Description	This paper presents a floristic part of an ecological study of soil diatoms from urban habitats, which is conducted at the Department of Botany & Zoology of the Masaryk University under a project “Biodiversity of Central and Southern European cities: a comparative study of vascular plants, algae, cyanobacteria and molluscs“. So far 111 diatom species were identified from 84 soil samples from different urban habitats. The most frequently occurred diatom genera are Pinnularia, Hantzschia and Luticola. The cultivation on Petri dishes containing BBM medium repetitively revealed a presence of a high number of Cocconeis and Fragilaria taxa, which have been so far noted only from aquatic habitats.
Related projects:	Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time Diverzita, ekologie, biogeografie a evoluce flóry a vegetace a jejich vztahy k jiným taxonomickým skupinám