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Cyclops kolensis Lill. forms dense populations in different water-bodies of the Upper Volga basin. In spring, when the other planktonic crustaceans have not yet appeared, C. kolensis is an important food object for fishes. Its active reproduction occurs from April to the beginning of June. A rapid accumulation of stage IV copepodids in the plankton occurs in June and at 12–14° they sink into the pelogene in a diapause stage. During the summer stagnation period the diapausing copepodids are distributed evenly over the bottom; their abundance here is 0.7–0.8 million ind. m-2 (Rybinsk reservoir). During storms and autumn active water mixing the copepodids together with detritus are disturbed and brought to the deepest, silt rich, part of the water-bodies. After the ice formation and at the beginning of bottom heating the diapausing copepodids are transported by near bottom currents and are concentrated in depressions; their biomass here reaches 60 g m-3. After the thermo-oxy-cline formation they revive and begin to live actively. Copepodids feed, accumulate adipose matter and in February–March they begin to moult.
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Rivier, I.C. Ecology of diapausing copepodids of Cyclops kolensis Lill. in reservoirs of the Upper Volga. Hydrobiologia 320, 235–241 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00016825
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