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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 3-68 Phase II summary report (final) : Utah Lake water quality, hydrology and aquatic biology impact analysis summary for the irrigation and drainage system--Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 3-68 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 3-68 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; sufw suff orfit rfit rf it ant gmt mnt table 3c ac 4 lists the diatoms of utah lake which are locally distributed in one major region of the lake fifty four species are f found in the main body of the lake only fourteen species are found only in provo bay 49 only in goshen bay and 15 are found in both bays but not in the main body of the lake examination of these data indicates that provo bay has a large number of nondiatom non diatom algae unique to that area while goshen bay has a large number of diatoms isolated there this confirms observations made while examining the fresh samples provo bay was usually high in flagellates and a variety of green algae and usually seemed to be quite unique from the rest of the lake goshen bay differs from other parts of the lake in some aspects perhaps the most noteworthy of which is its elevated salinity examination of samples from that area usually demonstrated certain diatom species adapted to saline or brackish environments it should be pointed out that diking provo and goshen bays would not result in the loss of all species isolated there however several would disappear the significance of this to the overall biology of the lake is difficult to assess certainly the basic nature of the lake would not change with the loss of most of these species several of which are very rare in the lake in other words utah lake as a whole would remain essentially a hypereutrophic hyper eutrophic or saline eutrophic system what would change is that two important general habitat types in the lake would disappear and total biotic diversity would decrease animal species any diking alternative causes habitat reduction but the effect on the lakes animal species composition is different than the effect on the algal species loss of a specific habitat would not eliminate any given animal species from the lake functional communities would be lost but because of the distribution of habitats around the lake and 368 3 68 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9267 |
