PHYTOPLANKTON COMPOSITION OF SOUTH EAST BLACK SEA COAST

Phytoplankton composition of south east Black Sea coast

A. Muzaffer Feyzioğlu, Kadir Seyhan

Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Marine Sciences, 61530 Çamburnu, Trabzon, TURKEY

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to compare the phytoplankton  composition  during the two sampling periods: 1993-1994 and 2001-2002 in the SE Black Sea coast. A total of 115 species belonging 5 classes were found in the sampling area. Diatoms and Dinoflagellat were the main dominant phytoplankton in the samples for the periods considered, but dinoflagellat ratio was observed to have increased from about 35 % to 41 % in the year 2001-2002.

Keywords: Phytoplankton, species list, Black Sea