Plankton Community in The Water of Babura River, Deli Serdang Regency

. Plankton communities in Babura River Deli Serdang are the title of the research that
has been conducted to determine the presence of plankton by a place of life. The research was
conducted in November 2016. In order to provide the accuracy of data, then each station there
are ten sub-stations for sampling samples. The results from this study illustrated of Plankton
community in the river Babura, there are 11 species with the number of 26 individuals
consisting of 9 species of zooplankton are Closterium cornu, Zygnemopsis circumcarinatum,
Synedra acus, Bacillaria spp, Fragilaria capucina, Cyclotella kutzingiana, Melosira ambigua,
Calothrix pariet, and Eremosphaera viridis and two species of phytoplankton are Euglypha
tuberculata and Rabdolaimus spp. The condition with physical and chemical parameters at the
time of research still support plankton life. This type of research is a de facto expost that only
revealing of existence data without any treatment. The data obtained will be used as initial data
for further research. From indicated of Plankton communities and also connected with the
parameters affecting it in each station can be known the ecological description of each species
found.