Some Data About the Daily Vertical and Horizontal  Distribution of Culturable Heterotrophic Bacteria in  Offshore Central Adriatic Sea

Dr. Sotir Mali.

Volume : IV, Issue : II, February - 2014

Some Data About the Daily Vertical and Horizontal Distribution of Culturable Heterotrophic Bacteria in Offshore Central Adriatic Sea

Dr. Sotir Mali.

Abstract :

The Albanian coast line and continental shelf is a typical alternation among the erosive and accumulative types and the Delta Buna-Drini of is typical accumulative one. The aim of this paper is to present some data on cultural heterotrophic bacteria in the “open sea”, in the central part of the Adriatic Sea in a line passing the continental shelf from the Delta Buna-Drini to the isobaths of 1100 m. This is the first study in the Albanian part which is not published before. In order to achieve the planed intention, 22 samples of water were collected during the May 2009 in different depths and distances from the seashore further on analyzed in laboratory. Some physical and chemical parameters (temperature, salinity, transparency, oxygen dissolved, etc) were analyzed as well following recent techniques of CTD. The results prove that daily vertical distribution of cultural heterotrophic bacteria in offshore central Adriatic Sea is interrelated with physical and chemical parameters, especially by temperature and the depth mixed by wind and down welling currents. The comparison of these data with those taken by the other authors in the coastal and the depth of Adriatic Sea, especially in Italian and Croatian parts shows that this area shows an oligotrophic water quality from the trophic state point of view.