Microbiological characteristics of Lake Turali
Aliverdieva-Gamidova, L.A.
Mikrobiologiia 46(4): 761-766
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-3656 PMID: 909476 Document Number: 123889
Lake Turali, USSR, is a salt-water reservoir. The high salt content of water and ooze determine the microflora of the lake. The total bacterial number is lower in the summer than in the winter when the salt concentration in the lake decreases. The highest number of bacteria and saprophytes is found in the spring. As a result of the high salt concentration in the water and ooze of the Turali Lake, the following physiological bacterial groups are partly or entirely absent: Azotobacter, Clostridium pasteurianum, hydrocarbon-oxidizing, methanol-producing and sulfate-reducing bacteria.