Estudio taxonómico preliminar de la ficoflora planctónica en la zona aluvial del Río Colorado (La Pampa, Argentina)

Abstract

This work is part of a larger project on the study of algal biodiversity of a lotic system in La Pampa province. In this first stage we analyze the algal flora of samples collected during the summer season and autumn of 2010. The study area is located in the floodplain of the Colorado River, the natural boundary between the provinces of La Pampa and Río Negro at its intersection with Provincial Route 11 (Department Lihuel Calel). The methodology used in the collection followed the standard parameters for lotic environments. The samples were fixed with 4% formaldehyde and deposited in the herbarium of the Faculty of Agronomy (UNLPam) under the symbol SRFA. The preliminary results of the algal flora of summer and autumn shows 64 taxa, of which 26.5% corresponds to Cyanophyceae, 36% to Chlorophyceae and Bacillariophyceae, and 1.5% to Dinophyceae. During the summer the class Chlorophyceae species contributed 40% and fall did the Bacillariophyceae with 43.7%. The 37.5% of the registered species were common to both seasons.