PRODUCAO PRIMARIA E SUAS RELACOES COM ALGUNS FATORES FISICO-QUIMICOS EM RESERVATORIOS DO ESTADO DE SAO PAULO. / Primary production of Santos Bay, Sao Paulo state: aspects of the photosynthetic efficiency in a polluted environment

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1981

RESUMO

The present work is part of a 1argeT project entited "Typo1ogy of Reservoirs of the State of São Paulo". It was sponsored by FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - State Foundation for Research Support), and included the study of 52 reservoirs. For the present study, ten reservois were sampled four times during 1979. Seven of these belong to the Tietê River basin: Americana, Atibainha, Cabuçu, Cachoeira, Pedro Beicht, Ribeirão do Campo and Taiaçupeba; and three to the Paraíba do Sul River basin: Jaguari, Paraibuna and Santa Branca. One samp1ing station was selected for each reservoir except Paraibuna, where three stations were chosen. Primary production, measured by the 14C method, as wel1 as concentrations of ch1orophyll-a were determined in selected depths in order to provide a vertical profile of these variables in the euphotic zone. Physico-chemica1 data such as ligth penetration, temperature, electric conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, alkalinity, forms of C02, nutrients and ions in solution were obtained along the water column, especially in the euphotic zone. The resu1ts permitted the detection of two circulation patterns: warm monomictic and po1ymictic. In a general way, primary production levels were from low to medium (41.4 to 285.8 mg C.m-2 .day-1), a consequence of most the reservoirs being located in the upper parts of their drainage basins, characterized by poor soils. This is reflected in low va1ues of conductivity, alkalinity and, among the nutrients, of phosphates. On the other hand, in some of the reservoirs low ligth penetration values reduced the thickeness of the euphotic zone, also lawering productivity. Americana Reservoir, suffering a process of cultural eutrophication, was an exception, its productivity averaging 768.2 mg C.m-2 . day-1 . Observed vaIues of photosynthetic efficiency were low (0.003 to 0.308 per cent) , as in the great majority of aquatic environments. The nanoplankton were responsible for most of the primary production, probably due to their higher surface volume ratios, allowing them to exploít more easily oligotrophic environments. Apparently phosphorus is the chief limiting nutrient in most reservoírs, as suggested by the low values of dissolved phosphates and by the very high N:P ratios observed in several of the reservoirs, particularly in winter.

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entrofização photosynthetic effifiency efeciência fotossintética estuary estuary entrophication pollution produção primária baía de santos primary production santos bay poluição

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