Ulothrix zonata Traditional Cache
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Ulothrix Zonata is just a lovely name for the cache, but reality is, that it is not in a botanical garden.
You will see another place, where subsoli water is pressing out from a closed oil shale mine.
Ulothrix zonata is a filament-shaped green algae that lives in cool-water watercourses. Being attached to stones, the set of algae reminds of a stack of hair floating in the water. A filament of algae is extremely fine – its diameter being less than 0.05 mm. Ulothrix zonata is a very important part of the aquatic
ecosystem – the first segment of food chains as well as a producer of oxygen and a participant in natural self-purification. The presence of the Ulothrix zonata in the river allows for assessing the eutrophication of the water: when the water contains a lot of nutrients, Ulothrix zonata does not grow there.
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