Fig. 1
From: Phytoplankton ecology in the early years of a boreal oil sands end pit lake
Relative abundances (%) of the major phytoplankton phyla in surface waters of BML (0.3–0.6 m for 23S rRNA gene data and 0.6–0.8 m for cell count and biomass data) for each sampling year, shown in comparison to the freshwater reservoir BCR (averaged for all years) and to relative biomass estimated in Alberta boreal headwater lakes [47]. Total biomass (mg m−3) is also given as a logarithmic scale. For direct comparison of the different sites, only samples from July through September were included