biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 1:81-92, 1959 | DOI: 10.1007/BF02927042

Autotroph-heterotroph relationships in natural waters

Silvestr Prát1, Zdeněk Šesták1
1 Department of Plant Physiology, Biologioal Faculty, Charles University and Collection of Autotrophic Organisms, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Praha

Biological tests of waters combined with determinations of their chemical nature make it possible to classify different types of waters, but usually one figure does not suffice for a correct evaluation of a given water.Gabriel's biological index is a valuable criterion which can give us a good deal of information about the state of the water if the necessary conditions are adhered to; it is not, however, a completely quantitative method and value.
The total body of producers, that is photosynthetizing matter (autotrophs) compared with the total organic matter as a whole [the body of consumers plus reducers (destroyers) plus dissolved organic matter] would be a much better criterion for characterizing the waters than a simple count of various individual bodies, even if this were to be supplemented by the relevant indices.
The usual conventional method, employed hitherto, of a biological oxygen demand must be supplemented by a similarly standardized conventional method of biological production of oxygen.
The literature on the subject gives many different methods for establishing "organic carbon" and chlorophyll; the most important of these have been evaluated critically and experimentally byŠestÁk (1955, 1958a, 1958b). Of a number of tested modifications the procedures outlined in this article proved to be the best. The relationship between producers and consumers plus destroyers must always be simplified. We cannot content ourselves with a figure or an equation, but must respect other factors as far as possible.

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