Possibility of freshwater red algae as bioindicator for water quality of streams in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand
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To study on diversity of freshwater red algae and water quality of five watershed area (Trang, Klong Klia, Kiriwong, Tapee, Klong Tha Ton) Nakhon Si Thammarat province, southern of Thailand, were conducted from February 2013 to January 2014. Samples were collected from 23 stream segment sites, which access by road area. Sixteen species in 8 genera of freshwater red algae viz., Audouinella, Compsopogon, Batrachospermum, Kumanoa, Sirodotia, Thorea, Ballia and Caloglossa were found. The majority of them were Caloglossa ogasawaraensis Okamura, Compsopogon aeruginosus Kützing and Thorea clavata Seto & Ratnasabapathy, respectively. The water quality was slightly different at each sampling site. Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) was used to determine the relationship between the water quality and the present of stream red algae, in term of bio-monitoring. It was found that Batrachospermum hypogynum Kumano & Ratnsabapathy, Kumanoa gibberosa Necchi & Vis, indicated as oligotrophic status, whilst Caloglossa ogasawaraensis Okamura could be indicators of mesotrophic status, which were found as the dominant species in amount at Trang watershed were Pliu and Tan Tip site, in dry season. In addition, when the classification of water quality was based on trophic level by using by the Applied Algal Research Laboratory-Physical and Chemical Score (AARL-PC), the water quality were classified as oligotrophic and meso-eutrophic status.
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