Preliminary study of diatoms as potential water quality bio-indicators for the tropical Congo and Zambezi sister basins (COZADIMO)

Over the 18 months of the project we have made a systematic review and examination of the diatom flora of the Congo and Zambezi drainage basins with the aim of documenting and describing taxa new to science as well as taxa with problematic identifications and those which are common and can be potentially used as indicator organisms. A number of diatoms from the study region were described or are being described as new to science:
We also documented the diatom genera of tropical Africa and the included these taxa in an illustrated guide for their identification (over 90 genera). This guide is published in 2016 as a volume of the book series Abc Taxa (nr 16). The guide is aimed at local scientists in order to introduce the most recent nomenclatural and taxonomic concepts on which to eventually base a water quality monitoring system.

Trefwoorden:B270-plantenecologie