TITLE:
Microcystins-LR, -YR and -RR in Six Bulgarian Water Bodies of Health and Conservational Importance (2012-2014)
AUTHORS:
Vera Pavlova, Maya Stoyneva-Gärtner, Blagoy Uzunov, Blagoy Uzunov, Zlatka Bratanova, Antoaneta Lazarova, Irina Karadjova
KEYWORDS:
Cyanoprokaryotes, Cyanobacteria, Cyanotoxins
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Water Resource and Protection,
Vol.7 No.16,
November
27,
2015
ABSTRACT: This study presented the results of HPLC-DAD microcystin and nodularin analyses from five Bulgarian water bodies (reservoirs Stoudena, Pchelina and Bistritsa, and lakes Dourankoulak and Vaya) carried out in 2012-2014, as a continuation of our work from 2004 to 2005 and in 2011, and first data on microcystins in the lake Momin Brod were detected in the period 2012-2014. The total concentration of microcystins in water samples ranged from 0.1 to 1.8 μg/l and their amount in the concentrated biomasses from net samples ranged from 1.35 to 296 μg/g (d.w.). The presence of the most toxic microcystin-LR was recorded in all studied lakes and reservoirs, where also microcystins RR and YR were detected, but no microcystin-LA and nodularin were found.