The diatom community in the Totsu-kawa, Kumano-gawa River System was investigated as to the community characteristics and the relationship between the community and the topographical classification of streams which was proposed by KANI (1944, 1981). The diatom community was organized by 1527 forms at each station. The communities varied in species diversity (SHANNON-WIENI.R. DI (bit)) from 0.480 to 2.637. The communities of lower species diversity were predominated by the blue-green alga
Homoeothrix janthina. It is assumed that the lower diversity is not due to the organic pollution but to the growth of
H. janthina. According to the cluster analysis based on the similarity indices among diatom communities, three types of community were found :
Gomphonema clevei var.
javanica predominates in station type Aa;
Nitzschia frustulum predominates in stations types Aa-Bb and Bb; and
Achnanthes convergens predominates in station types Aa, Bb and Bc. The relationship between the diatom community and the topographical classification of streams was not clear in this study. It is considered that where
A. convergens or
N. frustulum predominates, the communites are the result of a succession oriented by the newly produced microenvironment by the growing of
H. janthina. The values 51.8 to 99.5 of diatom assemblage index of water pollution (DAIpo; WATANABE and ASAI. 1985) were rather lower in
N. frustulum predominant communities and higher in
A. convergens predominant communities than the water quality.
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