Aportación al conocimiento de la influencia de la contaminación industrial en Fucus vesiculosus y Fucus spiralis en el N.O. de la península ibérica
- López Rodríguez, María del Carmen
- Pérez-Cirera, José Luis
ISSN: 0211-9714
Year of publication: 1995
Issue: 13
Pages: 21-30
Type: Article
More publications in: Studia botanica
Abstract
We study the effects of industrial pollution (originating from a pulp mili) on the benthic vegetation of the coast of Galicia (N.W. Iberian Peninsula). Communities of Fucus vesiculosus L. and Fucus spiralis L. were studied in two áreas: one cióse to the waste outlet of a pulp mili in the ría of Pontevedra, the other in an unpolluted área of the ría of Muros-Noia. The F. vesiculosus community was the most severely affected, with a clear increase in chlorophytes and cyanophytes. In addition, both the incidence of epiphytism and species richness were higher in the polluted área.