Evidence of cultural eutrophication of the Gulf of Gdańsk based on diatom analysis

Core	Total		Habitat		Salinity				Trophy							Saprobity
Core	spec	gen	p	b	e	m	oh	oi	eut	eu-met	met	me-olt	olt	eu-dyt	ir	pos	α-mes	α-β-mes	β-mes	ols	ks	ir
All	248	62	65	183	59	47	29	113	64	32	12	3	17	5	135	3	28	7	67	15	1	127
W9	146	48	31	115	26	29	21	70	53	26	6	2	9	2	48	3	18	5	48	7	1	64
ZP1	138	48	34	104	37	28	20	53	48	18	7	–	8	-	57	3	16	5	38	5	1	70
UP10	133	40	49	84	37	26	10	60	42	17	6	1	13	2	52	2	12	5	32	12	–	70
GG	115	39	40	75	31	28	16	40	38	17	5	1	7	2	45	2	12	5	37	5	–	54

[i] spec – species, gen – genera; Habitat system (Round 1981): p– plankton, b– benthos; Salinity system (Kolbe 1927): e– euhalobous (marine), m – mesohalobous (brackish water), oh – oligohalobous halophilous (slightly brackish water), oi – oligohalobous indifferent (freshwater); Trophic system (Neumann 1932): eut – eutraphentic, eu-met – eu-mesotraphentic, met – mesotraphentic, me-olt – meso-oligotraphentic, olt – oligotraphentic, eu-dyt – eu-dystraphentic, ir – irrelevant; Saprobic system (Kolkwitz and Marsson 1908): pos – polysaprobous, α-mes – α-mesosaprobous, α-β-mes – α-β-mesosaprobous, β-mes – β-mesosaprobous, ols – oligosaprobous, ks – xenosaprobous, ir – irrelevant

Table 3

Autecology of the main diatom taxa recorded in the sediment cores of the study area

Diatom taxa	Habitat	Salinity	Trophy	Saprobity
Actinocyclus normanii var. normanii (Gregory) Hustedt	p	oi	eut	α-mes
A. normanii f. subsalsa (Juhlin-Dannfelt) Hustedt	p	oh	eut	α-mes
A. octonarius Ehrenberg	p	e	olt	β-mes
Amphora copulata (Kützing) Schoeneman et Archibald	b	oi	eut	α-β-mes
A. pediculus (Kützing) Grunow	b	oi	eu-met	β-mes
Aulacoseira granulata (Ehrenberg) Simonsen	p	oi	eut	α-mes
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt	p	oh	eut	α-mes
C. caspia Grunow	p	oh	ir	ir
C. choctawhatcheeana Prasad	p	m	eut	α-mes
C. meneghiniana Kützing	b	oh	eut	α-mes
Cocconeis hauniensis Witkowski	b	m	eut	β-mes
C. neothumensis Krammer	b	oi	eu-met	ols
C. placentula var. placentula Ehrenberg	b	oi	eu-met	β-mes
Catenula adhaerens Mereschkovsky	b	e	eut	β-mes
Chaetoceros paulsenii RS Ostenfeld	p	m	ir	ir
Chaetoceros wighamii Brightwell	p	m	ir	ir
Coscinodiscus granii Gough	p	e	ir	ir
C. radiatus Ehrenberg	p	e	ir	ir
Cyclostephanos dubius (Fricke) Round	p	oi	eut	α-mes
Diploneis didyma (Ehrenberg) Cleve	b	m	eut	ir
Fragilaria atomus Hustedt	b	m	eut	ir
F. gedanensis Witkowski	b	m	ir	ir
F. martyi (Héribaud) Lange-Bertalot	b	oi	eu-met	β-mes
F. schulzii Brockman	b	m	met	ir
F. sopotensis Witkowski et Lange- Bertalot	b	m	eut	α-mes
Fragilariopsis cylindrus (Grunow) Krieger	b	e	ir	ir
Opephora guenter-grassii (Witkowski et Lange-Bertalot) Sabbe et Vyverman	b	m	olt	β-mes
O. krumbeinii Witkowski, Witak et Stachura	b	e	eut	β-mes
O. mutabilis (Witkowski et Lange-Bertalot) Sabbe et Vyverman	b	m	eut	β-mes
Pauliella taeniata (Grunow) Round et Basson	p	e	olt	ols
Pseudosolenia calcar-avis (Schultze) Sundström	p	e	ir	ir
Pseudostaurosira brevistriata Williams et Round	b	oi	eu-met	ols
Staurosira binodis (Ehrenberg) Lange-Bertalot	b	oi	eu-met	β-mes
S. construens (Ehrenberg) Williams et Round	b	oi	eu-met	β-mes
S. punctiformis Witkowski, Metzeltin et Lange-Bertalot	b	oh	ir	ir
S. subsalina (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot	b	oh	eu-met	β-mes
S. venter (Ehrenberg) Cleve et Möller	b	oi	eu-met	β-mes
Stephanodiscus hantzschii Grunow	p	oi	eut	pos
Thalassiosira baltica (Grunow) Ostenfeld	p	m	met	β-mes
T. eccentrica (Ehrenberg) Cleve	p	e	ir	ir
T. levanderi Van Goor	p	e	eut	ir
T. proschkinae Makarova	p	m	eut	ir

[i] Habitat: p– plankton, b – benthos; Salinity: e– euhalobous (marine), m – mesohalobous (brackish water), oh – oligohalobous halophilous (slightly brackish water), oi – oligohalobous indifferent (freshwater); Trophic: eut – eutraphentic, eu-met – eu-mesotraphentic, met – mesotraphentic, olt – oligotraphentic, ir – irrelevant; Saprobic: pos – polysaprobous, α-mes – α-mesosaprobous, α-β-mes – α-β-mesosaprobous, β-mes – β-mesosaprobous, ols – oligosaprobous, ir – irrelevant

Diatom record of core W9, for explanations see Table 2

Diatom record of core ZP1, for explanations see Table 2

Diatom record of core UP10, for explanations see Table 2

Diatom record of core GG, for explanations see Table 2

Correlation between the diatom assemblage zones distinguished in the cores

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ohs-2019-0022 | Journal eISSN: 1897-3191 | Journal ISSN: 1730-413X

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Submitted on: Feb 28, 2019

Accepted on: Mar 6, 2019

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trophic status,

diatom trophic indicator,

human impact,

cultural eutrophication,

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