Rivers Almond & Creran Algae 2007

The River Creran lies on the west coast of Scotland, running into the fjordic Loch Creran. It drains a mountainous catchment with a small human population. Some agriculture is practiced on the drained strath (flood plain).

The River Almond has a highly populated catchment lying mainly in West Lothian to the west of Edinburgh. It has been industrialised since the beginning of the industrial revolution, being the birthplace of the shale oil industry ("Paraffin Young"), and saw iron ore smelting and deep - mined coal at a multitude of locations - all now ceased. It provides a complete contrast in terms of topography and land use to the Creran catchment.

Image	Species	Creran		Almond

	Batrachospermum	+
	Bulbochaete	+
	Closterium kutzingii	+
	Closterium parvulum	+
	Cosmarium ralfsii v. montanum	+
	Euglena			+
	Fragilariaforma virescens	+
	Gomphonema acuminatum	+
	Hormidium					+
	Hyalotheca dissiliens	+
	Micrasterias jenneri	+
	Mougeotia 14µm.	+
	Mougeotia 25µm.	+
	Mougeotiopsis.	+
	Navicula oblonga	+
	Nitzschia scalaris	+
	Oedogonium	+						+
	Oscillatoria							+	+
	Pediastrum							+
	Rhoicosphenia curvata						+
	Spirogyra 22 µm.	+	+
	Spirogyra 30 µm.		+
	Spirogyra 50µm.	+
	Spirotaenia	+
	Stigeoclonium	+			+	+	+
	Surirella capronii	+
	Surirella elegans	+
	Synedra	+					+
	Tabellaria flocculosa	+
	Ulothrix			+
	Zygnema	+