Investigation of Some Ecological Factors and Isolation Techniques for Some Local Algae in Iraq

Abstract

Biological diversitydue to contrast environmental andheterogeneousregions in Iraq made them a very interesting for study. Some local algae were collected in this study from three stations along Tigres river in Baghdad city.Algae were isolated by specific threelab techniques.The dominant algae groups wereChlorophyta and Cyanophyta in three seasons (for all months), whileChrysophyta and other groups were seen insome months more than others.Results were taken weekly for nine month of the year 2020. Study effects shows a significant difference among most verified data for each factor, the correlation was investigatedbetween temperature and pH, in other hand EC and TDS were linked according to the outcomes of the work.

The study aimed forunderstanding the relation among abiotic issues and their effects on the algae distribution in Iraqi aquasystem and gathering some technique for algae isolating additionally picking a decent segregation methodology can prompt a quick isolating algal strain to be utilized in numerous applications.