Mountain Lochan Algae 2002: Intro.

These samples were collected for me by Mark Megaughin while carrying out his MSc Biology of Water Resource Management research project.
The project was a survey of fish and invertebrates in high altitude mountain lochans in Scotland, carried out at the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory, Pitlochry, in relation to the European Commission's EMERGE project.

Thanks to Mark also for these photographs of the sites:

SITE CODE, NAME
SCO379 Corrie an Lochan, Cairngorm Altitude 610m
SCO382 Lochan Uaine, Ben Macdui Altitude 760m
SCO172 Unnamed, Kinlochleven Altitude ~730m
SCO067 Loch Coire na Caime, Torridon Altitude 525m
SCO076 Loch Coire Mhic Fearchair, Torridon Altitude 600m
SCO140 Gorm Lochan, Glen Shiel Altitude 840m
SCO366 Lochan nan Cat, Ben Lawers Altitude 715m
SCO330 Lochan Coire Choille-rais, Loch Laggan Altitude 810m

This set of algal samples is not part of the EMERGE programme, but the EMERGE codes for the lakes has been used.

The samples proved extremely interesting and challenging, and some taxa have still to be positively identified (indicated by '?')

View the results in the following pages (on a mobile, best viewed in Landscape due to their tabular presentation):

Table 1: taxa A-D   Table 2: taxa E-K   Table 3: taxa L-Q   Table 4: taxa S-Z  

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John Kinross