Skip to main content
Log in

Diatom Algae of Waterbodies in the Subarctic Tundra

  • AQUATIC FLORA AND FAUNA
  • Published:
Inland Water Biology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Diatoms from small waterbodies of polygonal microrelief tundra on Tit-Ary Island (the lower reaches of the Lena River) have been studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for the first time. A total of 160 taxa belonging to 48 genera, 25 families, 13 orders, and 3 classes—including 55 taxa new for the flora of the Lena river basin, 46 taxa new for Yakutia, and 13 taxa identified only to the genus—have been found in the phytoperiphyton. The highest diversity of Bacillariophyta is found in a shallow lake at the north end of the island. More than 100 species and varieties of diatoms are detected there, including 29 species and varieties new for the flora of Yakutia. Achnanthidium minutissimum, Caloneis silicula, Cocconeis euglypta, C. pediculus, C. placentula, Cymbella artica, C. neocistula, Eunotia faba, E. praerupta, Gomphonema acuminatum, Hantzschia amphioxys, Navicula cryptocephala, Stauroneis anceps, Tabellaria fenestrata, T. flocculosa, Ulnaria ulna, and Caloneis silicula were found to be dominant in the waterbodies under study.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.

Similar content being viewed by others

Notes

  1. *Taxa new for the river basin. **Taxa new for the algal flora of Yakutia.

REFERENCES

  1. Balonov, I.M., Preparation of diatoms and golden algae for electron microscopy, in Metodika izucheniya biogeotsenozov vnutrennikh vodoemov (Methods of Studying Biogeocenoses of Inland Water Bodies), Moscow: Nauka, 1975, p. 87.

  2. Barinova, S.S., Medvedeva, L.A., and Anisimova, O.V., Bioraznoobrazie vodoroslei-indikatorov okruzhayushchei sredy (Biodiversity of Algae-Indicators of the Environment), Tel-Aviv: Pilies Studio, 2006.

  3. Chudaev, D.A. and Gololobova, M.A., Diatomovye vodorosli ozera Glubokogo (Moskovskaya oblast) (Diatoms of Lake Glubokoe (Moscow Oblast)), Moscow: KMK, 2016.

  4. Egorova, G.N., Natural conditions of the Lena river delta and the northern part of the Kharaulakh Mountains within the projected reserve, in Priroda Yakutii i ee okhrana (Nature of Yakutia and Its Protection), Yakutsk: Knizh. Izd., 1965, p. 174.

  5. Flora of Yakutia: composition and ecological structure (Flora of Yakutia: Composition and Ecological Structure), Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, vol. 3.

  6. Gabyshev, V.A. and Gabysheva, O.I., Fitoplankton krupnykh rek Yakutii i sopredel’nykh territorii Vostochnoi Sibiri (Phytoplankton of Large Rivers of Yakutia and Adjacent Territories of Eastern Siberia), Novosibirsk: SibAk, 2018.

  7. Genkal, S.I. and Vekhov, N.V., Diatomovye vodorosli vodoemov Russkoi Arktiki (Diatoms of Water Bodies of the Russian Arctic), Moscow: Nauka, 2007.

  8. Genkal, S.I., Bondarenko, N.A., and Shchur, L.A., Diatomovye vodorosli ozer yuga i severa Vostochnoi Sibiri (Diatoms of Lakes in the South and North of Eastern Siberia), Rybinsk: Dom Pechati, 2011.

  9. Genkal, S.I., Chekryzheva, T.A., and Komulainen, S.F., Diatomovye vodorosli vodoemov i vodotokov Karelii (Diatoms of Water Bodies and Watercourses of Karelia), Moscow: Nauchnyi Mir, 2015.

  10. Getsen, M.V., Vodorosli v ekosistemakh Krainego Severa (Algae in the Ecosystems of the Far North), Leningrad: Nauka, 1985.

  11. Isaev, A.P., Gabysheva, L.P., and Mikhaleva, L.G., Ecological and geographical features of the forest on the Tit-Ary island (Delta of the Lena River), Geogr. Prir. Resur., 2016, no. 2, p. 53.

  12. Kharitonov, V.G., Diatomovye vodorosli Kolymy (Diatoms of the Kolyma), Magadan: Kordis, 2014.

  13. Kharitonov, V.G. and Genkal, S.I., Diatomovye vodorosli ozera El’gygytgyn i ego okrestnostei (Chukotka) (Diatoms of Lake Elgygytgyn and Its Vicinities (Chukotka)), Magadan: Sev.-Vost. Nauchn. Tsentr Dal’nevost. Otd. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2012.

  14. Komulainen, S.F., Ekologiya fitoperifitona malykh rek Vostochnoi Fennoskandii (Ecology of Phytoperiphyton of Small Rivers of Eastern Fennoscandia), Petrozavodsk: Karel. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2004.

  15. Krammer, K., Die cymbelloiden Diatomeen. Teil 1: Allgemeines und Encyonema part., Bibl. Diatomol., 1997a, vol. 36.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Krammer, K., Die cymbelloiden Diatomeen. Teil 2: Encyonema part., Encyonopsis und Cymbellopsis, Bibl. Diatomol., 1997b, vol. 37.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Krammer, K., Diatoms of Europe, vol. 1: Pinnularia, 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Krammer, K., Diatoms of Europe, vol. 3: Cymbella, 2002.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Krammer, K., Diatoms of Europe. Cymbopleura, Delicata, Navicymbula, Gomphocymbellopsis, Afrocymbella, 2003, vol. 4.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H., Bacillariophyceae. Teil 1: Naviculaceae, in Die Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Stuttgart, 1986, vol. 2/1.

  21. Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H., Bacillariophyceae. Teil 2: Epithemiaceae, Bacillariaceae, Surirellaceae, in Die Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1988, vol. 2/2.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H., Bacillariophyceae. Teil. 3: Centrales, Fragilariaceae, Eunotiaceae, in Die Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1991a, vol. 2/3.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H., Bacillariophyceae. Teil 4: Achnanthaceae, Kritische Ergänzungen zu Navicula (Lineolatae) und Gomphonema Gesamtliteraturverzeichnis, in Die Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1991b, vol. 2/4.

    Google Scholar 

  24. Kulikovskiy, M.S., Glushchenko, A.M., Genkal, S.I., and Kuznetsova, I.V., Opredelitel’ diatomovykh vodoroslei Rossii (Identification Guide to Diatoms of Russia), Yaroslavl: Filigran’, 2016.

  25. Lange-Bertalot, H., Diatoms of Europe. Navicula sensu stricto, 10 genera separated from Navicula sensu lato, Frustulia, 2001, vol. 2, pp. 1–526.

    Google Scholar 

  26. Lange-Bertalot, H. and Genkal, S.I., Diatoms from Siberia. I: Islands in the Arctic Ocean (Yugorsky-Shar Strait), Iconogr. Diatomol., 1999, vol. 6.

    Google Scholar 

  27. Lange-Bertalot, H., Bak, M., and Witkowski, A., Diatoms of Europe. Eunotia and some related genera, 2011, vol. 6.

  28. Levkov, Z., Diatoms of Europe. Amphora sensu lato, 2009, vol. 5.

  29. Levkov, Z., Metzeltin, D., and Pavlov, A., Diatoms of Europe. Luticola, Luticolopsis, 2013, vol. 7.

    Google Scholar 

  30. Pantle, R. and Buck, H., Biological monitoring of water bodies and the presentation of results, Gas Wasserfach, 1955, vol. 96, no. 18, pp. 1–604.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Raznoobrazie rastitel’nogo mira Yakutii (Diversity of the Flora of Yakutia), Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2005.

  32. Reichardt, E., Zur revision der gattung Gomphonema, Iconogr. Diatomol., 1999, vol. 8.

    Google Scholar 

  33. Remigailo, P.A., Algoflora of reservoirs of the projected Ust-Lenskii Reserve, in Biologo-ekonomicheskie issledovaniya mestnoi rastitel’nosti i introdutsiruemoi flory Yakutii (Biological and Economic Studies of Local Vegetation and Introduced Flora of Yakutia), Yakutsk: Yakut. Nauchn. Tsentr Sib. Otd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1983, p. 5.

  34. Remigailo, P.A., Algoflora of water bodies of some areas of the Lower Lena region, in IX simpozium “Biologicheskie problemy Severa,” Tezisy dokladov (IX Symp. “Biological Problems of the North,” Abstracts of Papers), Yakutsk, 1986, vol. 2, p. 51.

  35. Remigailo, P.A., Ecological and geographical structure of taxonomic diversity of phytoplankton of the Lena River, Nauka Obraz., 2014, no. 1, p. 90.

  36. Serkina, R.A., Plankton and benthos of the Lena River and its coastal areas, Tr. Yakutsk. Otd. Sib. Nauchno-Issled. Inst. Rybn. Khoz., 1969, no. 3, p. 118.

  37. Sladeček, V., System of water quality from the biological point of view, Ergeb. Limnol., 1973, no. 7, pp. 1–218.

  38. Sladeček, V., Diatoms as indicators of organic pollution, Acta Hydrochim. Hydrobiol., 1986, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 555.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  39. Stenina, A.S., Diatomovye vodorosli (Bacillariophyta) v ozerakh vostoka Bol’shezemel’skoi tundry (Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) in the Lakes of the Eastern Part of the Bolshezemelskaya Tundra), Syktyvkar: Komi Nauchn. Tsentr Ural. Otd. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2009.

  40. Vasil’eva I.I. Analiz vidovogo sostava i dinamiki razvitiya vodoroslei vodoemov Yakutii (Analysis of Species Composition and Dynamics of Development of Algae in Water Bodies of Yakutia), Yakutsk: Yakutsk. Nauchn. Tsentr Sib. Otd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1989.

  41. Vasil’eva, I.I. and Rizvanova, R.G., Algae of the Lena River Delta, Byull. Nauchno-Tekhn. Inf., Yakutsk: Yakut. Nauchn. Tsentr Sib. Otd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1976, p. 8.

    Google Scholar 

  42. Vasil’eva, I.I. and Remigailo, P.A., Flora Presnovodnykh vodoroslei Lenskoi del’ty (Flora of Freshwater Algae of the Lena River Delta), available from VINITI, Yakutsk, 1986, no. 2414.

  43. Vitvitskiy, G.N., Climate, in Yakutiya (Yakutia), Moscow: Nauka, 1965, p. 115.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We express sincere gratitude for the material provided by L.N. Poryadina (Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) and to E.V. Likhoshvai (Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) for the opportunity to work on scanning electron and light microscopes at the Electron Microscopy Center for Collective Use.

Funding

This work was carried out according to State Tasks of the Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences “Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Studying the Diversity of the Flora of North and Central Yakutia” (0376-2018-0001) (no. АААА-А17-117020110056-0) and the Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, “Systematics, Diversity, and Phylogeny of Aquatic Autotrophic Organisms in Russia and Other Regions of the World” (no. АААА-А18-118012690095-4).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to S. I. Genkal.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interests. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Statement on the welfare of animals. This article does not contain any research involving humans and animals as research objects.

Additional information

Translated by M. Shulskaya

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Kopyrina, L.I., Genkal, S.I. & Remigailo, P.A. Diatom Algae of Waterbodies in the Subarctic Tundra. Inland Water Biol 14, 125–132 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082921020085

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082921020085

Keywords:

Navigation