Monitoring of the post-mining lakes in the North Bohemia. New study focused on microorganisms and phosphorus.

Crystal-clear water and dense algal mats covering the lakebed – that is how the littoral zones of newly emerged post-mining lakes in the North Bohemia look like. Water quality and development of the young ecosystems have been monitored by hydrobiologists from Biology centre of the Czech Academy of Science (BC CAS CR). In the new study published in the Frontiers in Microbiology they investigated the process of phosphorus uptake from the lake-water by communities of algae and bacteria.