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Biotic Effects in Planktonic Crustacean Communities in Acifified Swedish Forest Lakes after Liming

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In Sweden, approximately 16 000 of a total of about 85 000 lakes have been acidified due to acidic deposition. Of these about 8000 have been treated with limestone powder in order to detoxify the acidified waters and protect sensitive fauna. The present study was performed in ten lakes in the southern part of the country. The lakes belong to four different catchments and were in different stages of acidification at the time of lime treatment. The composition of the zooplankton and fish communities also differed and three lakes were empty of fish at the beginning of the studies. Quantitative sampling of planktonic crustaceans was performed during the ice free season between 1976–87 in five of the lakes and between 1977–87 in the other five. After treatment the pH increased significantly in all lakes except one. The average number of crustacean taxa found per sampling occasion increased in all lakes. Increases were statistically significant in four of the lakes. In the lakes empty of fish, increased abundances of chaoborids inhibited, by predation, the increase of species richness. Species richness increased after the introduction of fish and the subsequent reduction of the chaoborids. At the end of the study, more taxa were found in the limed study lakes than in non-treated west coast lakes with an alkalinity of 0.04–0.10 meq L-1. Most species normally occurring in oligotrophic forest lakes were found. It was shown that the water quality after liming made the occurrence of sensitive species possible and that predation from fish and interactions within the zooplankton assemblage were of great importance to the species composition and structure of the zooplankton community.

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Nyberg, P. Biotic Effects in Planktonic Crustacean Communities in Acifified Swedish Forest Lakes after Liming. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 101, 257–288 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004901320524

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