Desmid Delegation It may look here as if aliens are landing. But this fleet isn’t extraterrestrial. These are desmids – microscopic, single-celled green algae that live in aquatic environments like ...

A Desmid’s Mossy Home This image shows two different organisms, an alga and a plant, both of them intriguing to look at under a microscope. The rod -shaped creature is a type of alga called a desmid.

The greatest desmid diversity occurred in the middle part of the trophic range; this is explained by a greater niche differentiation resulting from frequent fluctuations in nutrient concentrations in ...

The growth of clonal isolates of Closterium moniliferum and Cosmarium granatum from hard waters and Triploceras gracile from an acid bog was examined at two different levels of calcium and pH. Low pH ...