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Gloeotrichia is a
cyanobacteria or Blue Green Algae
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It is becoming increasingly
present in Great Pond, and subsequently the other belgrade lakes.
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G is a photosynthetic
bacteria that starts its life cycle at the lake bottom
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When there is enough
sunlight present it begins to photosynthesize in shallow parts of the lake
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From here it picks up
oxygen and begins to move towards the surface
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Here the population expands
creating in some places during the summer a thick colonization of
gleoetrichia several meters into the water column
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It was seen in Long Pond,
and Messalonksee this past summer
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