Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Phytoplankton pigments as ecological state indices of the Cheboksary Reservoir

  • Water Quality and Protection: Environmental Aspects
  • Published:
Water Resources Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Data on the composition and content of plant pigments in water of the Cheboksary Reservoir collected in 1985–2005 are used to analyze the seasonal dynamics and spatial distribution of phytoplankton at different stages of reservoir life. A trophic burst could be distinctly seen in the reservoir in 1985, manifesting itself in exceedingly high (198 ± 41 µg/l) concentrations of photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll. In the process of ecosystem stabilization, chlorophyll concentration significantly dropped to vary from 8.2 ± 1.5 to 45.1 ± 21.0 µg/l in 1989–2005. The reservoir, located in a region subject to high anthropogenic load, has acquired the features of an eutrophic water body immediately after its creation and its trophic status remains unchanged all over its existence.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Avakyan, A.B., Saltankin, V.P., and Sharapov, V.A., Vodokhranilishcha (Reservoirs), Moscow: Mysl’, 1987.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Avakyan, A.B. and Shirokov, V.M., Kompleksnoe ispol’zovanie i okhrana vodnykh resursov (Integrated Use and Protection of Water Resources), Minsk: Universitetskoe, 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Bakanov, A.I., Benthos of the Cheboksary Reservoir: Taxonomic Composition and Abundance, Biologiya Vnutrennikh Vod, 2005, no. 4, pp. 69–79.

  4. Bikbulatov, E.S., Litvinov, A.S., Stepanova, I.E., et al., Hydrological-Hydrochemical Conditions in the Gorkii and Cheboksary Reservoirs in the Summer Low-Water Period of 2001, Ekol. Khimiya, 2006, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 82–94.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Vinberg, G.G., Pervichnaya produktsiya vodoemov (Primary Production of Reservoirs), Minsk: Akad. Nauk BSSR, 1960.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Volga i ee zhizn’ (The Volga and Its Life), Butorin, N.V. and Mordukhai-Boltovskii, F.D., Eds., Leningrad: Nauka, 1978.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Kovalevskaya, R.Z. and Karabanovich, V.S., Primary Production of Volga Plankton and Its Reservoirs, Vodn. Resur., 1975, no. 1, pp. 86–93.

  8. Litvinov, A.S., Modeling of Hydrological Structure and Forecasting of Water Mineralization in the Cheboksary Reservoir, Vodn. Resur., 1995, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 426–427 [Water Resour. (Engl. Transl.), vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 392–400].

    Google Scholar 

  9. Litvinov, A.S., Energo- i massoobmen v vodokhranilishchakh Volzhskogo kaskada (Energy and Mass Excnange in Volga Chain Reservoirs), Yaroslavl: Yarosl. Gos. Tekh., Univ., 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Litvinov, A.S. and Zakonnova, A.V., Water Balance, Water Exchange and Level Regime in the Cheboksary Reservoir during First Years of Its Filling, Vodn. Resur., 1986, no. 3, pp. 69–76.

  11. Litvinov, A.S. and Zakonnova, A.V., Hydrological Conditions in the Cheboksarskoe Reservoir during Several Years after its Filling, Vodn. Resur., 1994, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 365–374 [Water Resour. (Engl. Transl.), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 337–345].

    Google Scholar 

  12. Litvinov, A.S. and Mineeva, N.M., Hydrological Conditions and Distribution of Phytoplankton in Reservoirs of the Volga Chain of Reservoirs, Vodn. Resur., 1997, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 486–493 [Water Resour. (Engl. Transl.), vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 448–455].

    Google Scholar 

  13. Loginov, V.V. and Bayanov, N.G., Large-Scale Distribution of Chlorophyll Concentration in Phytoplankton of the Cheboksary Reservoir, in IX s”ezd Gidrobiol. obshchestva. Tez. Dokl. (IX Congr. Hydrobiol. Soc., Book of Abstracts), Tolyatti, 2006, vol. 1, p. 278.

  14. Mineeva, N.M., Formation of Primary Production in the Reservoirs of the Volga Chain of Hydroelectric Stations under Present Conditions: Phytoplankton Pigments, Vodn. Resur., 1995, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 746–756 [Water Resour. (Engl. Transl.), vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 694–704].

    Google Scholar 

  15. Mineeva, N.M., Organic Matter Production by Phytoplankton in Eutrophic Reservoirs, in VII s”ezd Gidrobiol. obshchestva. Tez. Dokl. (IX Congr. Hydrobiol. Soc., Book of Abstracts), Kazan, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 200–202.

  16. Mineeva, N.M., Rastitel’nye pigmenty v vode volzhskikh vodokhranilishch (Plant Pigments in Water of the Volga Reservoirs), Moscow: Nauka, 2004.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Mineeva, N.M., Litvinov, A.S., Stepanova, I.E., and Kochetkova, M.Yu., Chlorophyll Concentration and Factors of Its Spatial Distribution in Middle Volga Reservoirs, Biologiya Vnutrennikh Vod, 2008, no. 1, pp. 68–77.

  18. Okhapkin, A.G., Current State of Phytoplankton in the Unregulated Volga, in Biologicheskaya produktivnost’ i kachestvo vody Volgi i ee vodokhranilishch (Biological Production and Water Quality of the Volga and Its Reservoirs), Moscow: Nauka, 1984, pp. 59–61.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Okhapkin, A.G., Dynamics of Phytoplankton Biomass in Unregulated Volga Reaches, in Monitoring fitoplanktona (Phytoplankton Monitoring), Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1992, pp. 118–122.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Okhapkin, A.G., Fitoplankton Volgi. Fitoplankton Cheboksarskogo vodokhranilishcha (Volga Phytoplankton: Phytoplankton of the Cheboksary Reservoir), Tolyatti: Inst. Ekologii Volzhskogo Basseina RAN, 1994.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Okhapkin, A.G., Tukhsanova, N.G., and Shurganova, G.V., Relationships between Seasonal Variations in Water Chemistry and the Biomass of Planktonic Organisms in the Oka Mouth, in Nazemnye i vodnye ekosistemy (Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystgems), Gorky: Gork. Gos. Univ., 1983, pp. 80–86.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Poddubnyi, S.A., Hydrological Conditions of Formation and Enhancement of the Biological Production of Volga Reservoir Ecosystems, Extended Abstract of Doctoral (Geogr.) Dissertation, Moscow: State Land Management Institute, 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Pyrina, I.L., Primary Production of Some Volga Reservoirs in Connection with Illumination, Chlorophyll, and Phytoplankton Biomass, Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, Inst. Biol. Inland Waters, USSR Acad. Sci., 1966, vol. 225.

  24. Saltankin, V.P., Kayakin, V.V., Dmitrieva, I.L., and Mulina, A.V., Expert Estimation of the Geoecological State of Volga-Kama Chain Reservoirs, in Aktual’nye problemy vodokhranilishch (Urgent Problems of Reservoirs), Yaroslavl: Yarosl. Gos. Tekh. Univ., 2002, pp. 269–270.

    Google Scholar 

  25. Sigareva, L.E., Timofeeva, N.A., and Zakonnov, V.V., Plant Pigment Distribution in Bottom Sediments of the Cheboksary Reservoir, Gidrobiol. Zh., 2004, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 27–36.

    Google Scholar 

  26. Trifonova, I.S., Seasonal and Main Succession of Lake Phytoplankton, Gidrobiol. Zh., 1986, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 21–28.

    Google Scholar 

  27. Shurganova, G.V., Volga Zooplankton in the Gorodets-Cheboksary Reach before the Formation of a New Reservoir, in Biologicheskaya produktivnost’ i kachestvo vody Volgi i ee vodokhranilishch (Biological Productivity and Water Quality of the Volga and Its Reservoirs), Moscow: Nauka, 1984, pp. 181–183.

    Google Scholar 

  28. Shurganova, G.V., Variations in the Species Composition of Zooplankton-Cenoses in the Cheboksary Reservoir in Many-Years Aspect, in Aktual’nye problemy vodokhranilishch (Urgent Problems of Reservoirs), Yaroslavl: Yarosl. Gos. Tekh. Univ., 2002, pp. 329–330.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Shurganova, G.V., Dynamics of the Species Composition of Zooplankton-Cenoses in the Process of Their Formation and Development (Case Studies of Middle Volga Reservoirs: the Gorkii and Cheboksary Reservoirs)), Extended Abstract of Doctoral (Biol.) Dissertation, Nizhnii Novgorod: Nizhegorodskii State Univ., 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  30. Shcherbak, V.I., Structural-Functional Characteristic of Dnepr Phytoplankton, Extended Abstract of Doctoral (Biol.) Dissertation, Kiev: Inst. Hydrobiology, Ukrainian NAS, 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Edel’shtein, K.K., Vodokhranilishcha Rossii: ekologicheskie problemy i puti ikh resheniya (Reservoirs of Russia: Environmental Problems and Ways to Their Solution), Moscow: GEOS, 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  32. Eutrophication of Waters. Monitoring, Assessment and Control, Paris: OECD, 1982.

  33. Jeffrey, S.W. and Humphrey, G.F., New Spectrophotometric Equations for Determining Chlorophylls a, b, c 1 and c2 in Higher Plants, Algae and Natural Phytoplankton, Biochem. Physiol. Pflanz, 1975, vol. 167, pp. 191–194.

    Google Scholar 

  34. Likens, J.E., Primary Production of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems, Primary Productivity of the Biosphere, Berlin: Springer, 1975, pp. 185–202.

    Google Scholar 

  35. Lorenzen, C.J., Determination of Chlorophyll and Pheopigments: Spectrophotometric Equations, Limnol. Oceanogr., 1967, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 343–346.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  36. Parsons, T.R. and Strickland, J.D.H., Discussion on Spectrophotometric Determination of Marine-Plant Pigments with Revised Equations for Ascertaining Chlorophylls and Carotenoids, J. Mar. Res., 1963, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 155–168.

    Google Scholar 

  37. Schetagne, R., Water Quality Modifications after Impoundment of Some Large Northern Reservoirs, Ergebn. Limnol. Advance Limnol., 1992, no. 40, pp. 223–229.

  38. SCOR-UNESCO Working Group no. 17. Determination of Photosynthetic Pigments in Sea Water, Monographs on Oceanographic Methodology, Paris: UNESCO, 1966, pp. 9–18.

  39. Sladeček V., Water quality in Czechoslovak Water-Supply Impoundment, Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih. Ergebn. Limnol., 1990. H. 33. S. 819–825.

    Google Scholar 

  40. Straškraba, M., Blazka, P., Brande, Z., et al., A hypothesis on reservoir aging, Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih. Ergebn. Limnol., 1990. H. 33. S. 803–806.

    Google Scholar 

  41. Vollenweider, R.A., Das Nahrstoffbelastungsconzept Als Grundlage Fur Den Eutrophierungs-Prozess Stehender Gewasser Und Talsperren, Zeitschrift fur Wasser und Abwasser Forschung, 1979, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 46–56.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Inland Water Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Nekouzskii raion, Yaroslavskaya oblast, 152742, Russia

    N. M. Mineeva

  2. Nizhnii Novgorod State University, prosp. Gagarina 23, Nizhnii Novgorod, 603600, Russia

    N. N. Abramova

Authors
  1. N. M. Mineeva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. N. N. Abramova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Original Russian Text © N.M. Mineeva, N.N. Abramova, 2009, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2009, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 588–596.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Mineeva, N.M., Abramova, N.N. Phytoplankton pigments as ecological state indices of the Cheboksary Reservoir. Water Resour 36, 560–567 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S009780780905008X

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S009780780905008X

Keywords

Search

Navigation