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Substance and energy flows formed by the emergence of amphibiotic insects across the water–air boundary on the floodplain lakes of the Volga River

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Substance flow across the water–air boundary on the floodplain Lake Holodnoe (Saratov oblast) is generally formed by the Culicomorpha (76.1%) and accounts for 0.35 g/m2 of the lake area per year. The energy flow amounts to 1.87 kcal/m2, and most of it accounts for the second half of summer and autumn. Annual removal of biogenic elements is 0.18 g/m2 for carbon, 0.04 g/m2 for nitrogen, and 0.004 g/m2 for phosphorus. The greatest contribution to flows of substance and energy is brought by large species of chironomids, as well as chaoborids and medium-sized chironomids, which produce several generations within a year and reach high abundance at a larval stage. Other floodplain lakes of the Volga River with similar biotopical features and species composition of amphibiotic insects are characterized by a quantitatively similar level of exchange processes with adjacent land ecosystems across the water–air boundary.

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    I. V. Djomina

  2. Saratov State University, ul. Astrakhanskaya 83, Saratov, 410012, Russia

    M. V. Yermokhin

  3. Saratov State Medical University, ul. Bolshaya Kazachya 112, Saratov, 410012, Russia

    N. V. Polukonova

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Djomina, M.V. Yermokhin, N.V. Polukonova, 2016, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, No. 4, pp. 498–514.

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Djomina, I.V., Yermokhin, M.V. & Polukonova, N.V. Substance and energy flows formed by the emergence of amphibiotic insects across the water–air boundary on the floodplain lakes of the Volga River. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 9, 407–420 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425516040053

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