The Cyanobacteria, Green and Euglenoid Algae in the High Mountain Lakes of Kaçkar Protected Area (Rize, Turkey)

Bülent Șahin; Sophia Barinova

doi:10.2478/trser-2025-0011

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The Cyanobacteria, Green and Euglenoid Algae in the High Mountain Lakes of Kaçkar Protected Area (Rize, Turkey)

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research

Volume 27 (2025): Issue 2 (August 2025)

By: Bülent Șahin and Sophia Barinova

Open Access

|Dec 2025

Abstract

Floras of cyanobacteria, chlorophytes and euglenozoa of 14 glacial lakes and a pond in the Kaçkar Mountains National Park collected on 19 July, 28 August and 10 September 2020 comprised 66 species. Cyanobacteria were predominant (46.96%), Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) and Trachelomonas (Euglenozoa) were the most abundant. Physicochemical analysis and bioindicator species indicate that the studied waters are fresh, with low salinity and near-neutral or low-alkaline pH and are not polluted with organic matter. Statistical analysis of the data showed that algal and cyanobacterial floras are individual in geographically defined habitats.

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