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Removal Effects of Chlorophyll-a and Cyanobacteria Using Laboratory-scale Biomanipulation Tests  

Lee, Sang-Jae (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Jae-Yon (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Jae-Hoon (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Bae, Dae-Yeul (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Eui-Hang (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Han, Jung-Ho (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Hwang, Soon-Jin (Department of Environmental Science, Konkuk University)
An, Kwang-Guk (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
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Abstract
This study was conducted to determine removal effect on phytoplankton (chlorophyll-${\alpha}$ as whole algae) and cyanobacteria by a fish Pseudorasbora parva and macroinvertebrate Palaemon paucidens in September 2006. Three treatments with 25 (T1), 50 (T2) and 100 (T3) individuals along with control (C1, no input fish), and two treatments with 25 (T4) and 50 (T5) individuals along with control (C1) were made for fish and macroinvertebrate, respectively. The initial concentrations of chlorophyll-${\alpha}$ $(Chl_i)$ in each 10L test tank were set up for the levels of $95{\sim}100{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$ and the daily values were monitored in the test tank during 7 days. In the lab tests, P. parva did not show Chl-${alpha}$ removal effect; the removal rate of Chl-${alpha}$ for P. parva was -58% in T1, -56% in T2, and 61% in T3 during the test period. In contrast, P. paucidens. in the treatments of T4 and T5 removed the phytoplankton effectively and the removal effect were appeared to be 33% and 22%, respectively. Also, P. paucidens showed high feeding efficiency in the removal of cyanobacteria. The levels of cyanobacteria were greatly lowed from 6,048 to 927 cells $mL^{-1}$ in T4 and from 6,539 to 1,053 cells $mL^{-1}$ in T5, resulting in 85% and 84% in the removal effect, respectively. Our results for biomanipulation tests suggest that P. paucidens may be used as a potential candidate organism for algae control in spite of the preliminary results by laboratory tests.
Keywords
biomanipulation; removal effect; cyanobacteria; chlorophyll-${\alpha}$; agricultural reservoir;
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