Networks of green algae called Nitella usually trap phosphorus at the bottom of the pond, where other water-muddying algae types can’t reach it, but the excess of phosphorus threatens that balance.

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MATURE internodal cells of the algae Chara and Nitella are several centimetres long, and develop from meristematic cells about 20µ across. In an investigation of the fine structure of developing ...

The seven common algae types found in ponds are: Blue-Green, Bryozoans, Filamentous, Green Pond, Golden, Red Pond, Nitella/Stoneworts, and Chara/Muskgrass. I suspect our pond is graced with the Green ...

That was until Suffolk Wildlife Trust farm conservation adviser Juliet Hawkins identified the distinctive pond plant - Nitella capillaris - while surveying farmland ponds in the east of the county ...

IT is generally accepted that the process of excitation starts with a localized depolarization of the conducting cell membrane. The adjacent region is then depolarized by the resultant current flow.