Plankton biodiversity and freshwater ecosystem feasibility as a learning resource: Situ Bagendit Hertien Koosbandiah Surtikanti* and Ryan Kurniawan Syahinsyah
Departemen Pendidikan Biologi, Program Studi Biologi, FPMIPA Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia.
Abstract
Understanding of biodiversity and the feasibility of Biology is needed to confirm that Situ Bagendit (SB) as a learning resource environment. Therefore, this study identifies plankton biodiversity in freshwater ecosystem. Research to evaluate the feasibility of biodiversity and SB performed with quantitative descriptive method. It consisted of four phases: (a) study composition of the plankton in SB- (b) measurement of chemical and water physics analysis of SB- (c) preparation of learning media based on research- and (d) identification of plankton. The feasibility study included the access, cost, safety, environment and integrated concept study object under investigation in supporting learning. The observed parameters were composition of the plankton population, analytical chemistry, and physics of water. The results of this study indicated that the total amount of plankton observed in SB are 44 types consisting of 25 species of phytoplankton and 19 species of zooplankton. This finding confirms that SB may contribute to strengthen and enrich the learning process Freshwater Biology resource materials. Freshwater ecosystem is good natural laboratorium for learning environmental biology.
Keywords: Learning resource, plankton composition, Situ Bagendit, water quality
