Revue d’Ecologie (Terre et Vie), Vol. 70 (1), 2015 : 44-57
44 STUDY OF THE DIATOMS OF REGHAIA LAKE, NORTHERN ALGERIA Habiba EL HAOUATIa*, Abdeslem ARABa, Loïc TUDESQUEb, c, Sovan LEKb, c
& Boudjéma SAMRAOUId, e
a USTHB, FSB, LaDyBio (Laboratory Dynamics and Biodiversity), BP 32, El Alia, Algiers, Algeria
b CNRS, UPS, ENFA ; UMR5174 EDB (Laboratory of Evolution and Biological diversity), 118 route de Narbonne. F-31062 Toulouse, France
c University of Toulouse, UPS, UMR5174 EDB. F-31062 Toulouse, France.
d Center of Excellence for Research in Biodiversity, King Saud University. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
e Laboratoire de Recherche et de Conservation des Zones Humides, University of Guelma. Guelma, Algeria * Corresponding author : Tél. : + (213-2) 24 79 51 ; Fax : + (213-2) 51 50 19 ; E-mail : elhaouatiha@ yahoo. fr
Limnological studies highlighting the role of abiotic factors in the distribution of aquatic organisms are legion (Ahriz et al., 2010). Despite their interest, the diatom flora has been rarely studied in Algeria and North Africa. Only the work of Baudrimont on the continental diatoms of Algeria in 1973 (Baudrimont, 1973), and more recently those concerning the assemblages of the benthic diatoms in Algerian wadi (Chaïb et al., 2011; Chaïb & Tison-Rosebery, 2012) have been recorded. Furthermore, in neighbouring Morocco, we can add the work of Fawzi et al. (2002).
