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Document Type
Research
Keywords
Diatoms, Sand Prairies, Sphagnum bogs, Black Hawk County, Iowa
Abstract
A total of 107 diatom taxa representing 22 genera was identified from four microhabitats in a northerly facing wet swale in the Mark Sand Prairie. One of these was a Sphagnum polster. Chemical analyses of water from these microhabitats showed that none exceeded 60 ppm total hardness (as CaCO3). Fifteen taxa are new records for Iowa. A brief comparison is made between the diatom flora of this site and that of another soft water site, the Sphagnum bog located in Pilot Knob Preserve (Hancock County, Iowa).
Publication Date
December 1981
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
88
Issue
4
First Page
154
Last Page
158
Copyright
©1981 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Dodd, J. Jeffrey
(1981)
"Diatoms from the Mark Sand Prairie, Black Hawk County, Iowa,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 88(4), 154-158.
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https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol88/iss4/5