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FACTORS INFLUENCING VIABLE BACTERIA IN A TURBID MAN-MADE IMPOUNDMENT

Published in: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa
Volume 4 , issue 2, pages: 89–94

DOI: 10.1080/03779688.1978.9633157

Author(s): D.F. Toerien, South Africa 0001, D.N. Sadie, South Africa 0001, P. Stegmann, South Africa 0001,

Keywords: Viable bacteria, turbid impoundment, aerobic heterotrophic bacteria, suspen-soids, silt resuspension, littoral vegetation,

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Abstract

The numbers of aerobic heterotrophic bacteria in the waters and sediments of the small turbid impoundment, Wuras Dam, are very high (≥100 000 ml ⁻¹ and ≥ 1x10⁶ bacteria g⁻¹ respectively). Viable bacterial numbers in the open water seem to depend on suspen-soid concentrations and the regression line:

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FACTORS INFLUENCING VIABLE BACTERIA IN A TURBID MAN-MADE IMPOUNDMENT

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