The Trossachs, 2004


The Trossachs area includes the Loch Ard catchment (Loch Ard pictured above) which has been the focus of much monitoring and research into freshwater acidification, as has Loch Chon.
 

Link to Other Trossachs Specimens

Planktonic algae from Loch Chon

Anabaena sp.  
Bambusina
Botryococcus
Bulbochaete
Closterium acerosum
Closterium angustatum
 
Closterium littorale
Closterium ?lunula


Closterium navicula

Closterium striolatum
Closterium ?setaceum
?Coenochloris fottii
Cosmarium depressum v. planctonicum?
Cosmocladium saxonicum

Dinobryon
Euastrum inerme
Euastrum verrucosum
Eudorina
     

Gloeocystis ?
Haplotaenium minutum ? 22x200µ


Hyalotheca
Klebsormidium
Merismopedia
Micrasterias ?fimbriata
Micrasterias ?papillifera 107x115µm
Micrasterias radiosa 138x145µm
Mougeotia 5µm.



Mougeotia 11x270µm.


Mougeotia 12x130µm.
Mougeotia 14x55µm.

Mougeotia 14x110-140µm.
Mougeotia 25x120-140µm.
Mougeotiopsis 17x53µm.

Oedogonium 6µm.
Oedogonium 15µm.
Oscillatoria 10µm.
Oscillatoria 11µm.
Pediastrum sp.
Pleurotaenium ehrenbergii 18x340µm.
   
Quadrigula closterioides? 3x25µm.
Sphaerocystis?
Spirogyra 17x70-80µm.

Spirotaenia
Spondylosium planum?
Staurastrum armigerum
Staurastrum anatinum


Staurastrum arctiscon
Staurastrum cingulum
Staurastum ophiura

Staurastrum ?cerastes 70x40µm

Staurodesmus subtriangularis

Synedra sp.
Synura
Tabellaria flocculosa
Tortitaenia (luetkemuelleri)? 17x77µm.

Xanthidium antilopaeum
Xanthidium antilopaeum (?v. depauperatum)
Zygnema 20µm.
To be identified:
filaments:

 
   
   
 

Algae from The Trossachs, 2004

species supplemental to the list
"FILAMENTOUS ALGAL SPECIES COMMON IN ACID AND SOFT WATERS"

 
Loch Ard Catchment
Geminella 10µm
 
Hormidium 14µm
 
  
Palmodictyon


       

Sirogonium


     

Stigeoclonium 14µm
    
 'Ulothrix 10µm scaly' = Klebsormidium crenulatum
 
 

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John Kinross