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Abstract Production rates, chlorophyll concentrations and general composition of periphytic diatom communities growing on glass slides were studied in relation to environmental parameters during one seasonal cycle in the Bay of Paranagu, southern Brazil. Slides were routinely submersed at 1, 2 and 3m depth and recovered weekly for microscopic examinations, analyses of chlorophyll, cell counts and...