Benthic and planktonic dinoflagellates of Homa lagoon (Izmir Bay) and their relationships with environmental conditions

In this thesis, it's aimed to determine the distribution of planktonic and benthic dinoflagellate species of Homa Lagoon in this region and to evaluate the identified species with the physico-chemical conditions of the lagoon. Accordingly, monthly sampling was conducted from 4 stations over one year period. As a physical parameters temperature, salinity, pH and dissolved oxygen and as a chemical parameters ammonium, nitrite, nitrate, orthophosphate, reactive silica and chlorophyll-a was conducted. As a result of the sampling, 32 planktonic species and 4 benthic species was determined as 36 species determined in total. It was analysed that the frequencies of these species and species richness, species diversity was evaluated statistically