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. 2017 Oct 23;7:13770. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-13159-9

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Triggering of diatom blooms via artificial turnover and phosphorus addition. Experiments were conducted during spring periods in 2015 (a,b,c) and 2016 (d,e,f). In untreated (control) surface waters (5 m depth), neither algae nor bacteria showed increased growth (a,d). Mixing epi- (5 m depth) with hypolimnetic water (100–110 m depth) promoted abundances of diatoms and bacteria (b,e). A comparable effect was achieved by addition of orthophosphate (40 µg P l−1) to epilimnetic (5 m depth) water (c,f). All treatments were set up as triplicates. Bacterial abundances are shown as averages (n = 3) ±one standard deviation.