Large red cyanobacterial mats (<i>Spirulina subsalsa</i> Oersted ex Gomont) in the shallow sublittoral of the southern Baltic

We report the first observation of large red cyanobacterial mats in the southern Baltic Sea. The mats (up to 2.5 m in diameter) were observed by SCUBA divers at 7.7 m depth on loamy sediments in the Gulf of Gdańsk in mid-November 2013. The main structure of the mat was formed by cyanobacteria <i...

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Main Authors: Piotr Balazy, Justyna Kobos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-06-01
Series:Oceanologia
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Online Access:http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceanologia/56_3.html#A14