Table 2 The dominant species (mean % for the growth season) in phytoplankton density (A) and biomass (B) in the Kuźnica clarification pond in 2014–2019.

From: A new charophyte habitat with a stabilized good ecological potential of mine water

Species

Phylum

FGs

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

(A) Relative density

Cyclotella meneghiniana

Bacillariophyta

C

35

13

39

49

15

65

Nitzschia palea

Bacillariophyta

D

23

6

3

1

2

2

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Chlorophyta

X2

56

13

14

4

Kirchneriella irregularis

Chlorophyta

F

19

26

16

11

1

Monoraphidium contortum

Chlorophyta

X1

10

2

1

37

Cryptomonas erosa

Cryptophyta

Y

3

1

9

1

3

1

Plagioselmis nannoplanctica

Cryptophyta

X2

3

17

14

41

16

Uroglenopsis americana

Ochrophyta

U

8

(B) Relative biomass

Cyclotella meneghiniana

Bacillariophyta

C

39

10

34

54

9

40

Staurosira construens

Bacillariophyta

MP

18

1

Ulnaria ulna

Bacillariophyta

MP

1

1

1

25

3

Nitzschia palea

Bacillariophyta

D

10

2

1

1

1

2

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Chlorophyta

X2

60

18

2

1

Cryptomonas erosa

Cryptophyta

Y

7

2

16

1

15

14

Plagioselmis nannoplanctica

Cryptophyta

X2

1

4

4

7

6

Trachelomonas armata

Euglenozoa

W2

21

Ceratium hirundinella

Miozoa

LO

27

-

14

Peridinium cinctum

Miozoa

LO

19

6

9

1

Uroglenopsis americana

Ochrophyta

U

11

  1. FGs functional groups (Reynolds et al. 2002, Padisák et al. 2009) and habitat template of coda, C eutrophic small- and medium sized lakes with species sensitive to the onset of stratification, D shallow turbid waters including rivers, F clear, deeply mixed meso-eutrophic lakes, X1 shallow, eu hypertrophic environments, X2 shallow, meso-eutrophic environments, Y this codon, mostly including large cryptomonads but also small dinoflagellates, refers to a wide range of habitats, which reflect the ability of its representative species to live in almost all lentic ecosystems when grazing pressure is low, MP frequently stirred up, inorganically turbid shallow lakes, W2 meso-eutrophic ponds, even temporary, shallow lakes, LO deep and shallow, oligo to eutrophic, medium to large lakes, U stratifying oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes, where nutrient resources are exhausted in the upper layers but still available in the darker deep ones, the essential adaptation under these conditions is the combination of motility with large size, – not observed.