Crustacean Zooplankton of Finnish Forest Lakes in Relation to Acidity and Other Environmental Factors

Autor:	Jouko Sarvala, Sari Halsinaho
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	Abiotic component Ecology Fauna fungi Community structure Species diversity Biology biology.organism_classification Crustacean Daphnia Zooplankton humanities Abundance (ecology) parasitic diseases
Zdroj:	Acidification in Finland ISBN: 9783642754524
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-642-75450-0_51
Popis:	The abundance and species diversity of crustacean zooplankton in 138 Finnish forest lakes were significantly reduced in lakes with a low pH (< 5.2); especially the abundance and species number of calanoids and Daphnia declined. The impoverishment of zooplankton fauna at low pH was less pronounced in polyhumic lakes, which also harbored much higher abundances of zooplankton than clearwater lakes. Sample size (in terms of individuals studied) had a major effect on the variation of species numbers. In spite of statistically significant relationships, abiotic environmental parameters could explain only a relatively minor fraction of the observed variation of zooplankton community structure; direct and indirect biotic interactions were probably more important.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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