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The impact of carp pond management upon macrozoobenthos assemblages in recipient pond canals

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Impact of carp pond management upon macrozoobenthos assemblages was studied in inlet and outlet carp pond canals in South Moravia (Czech Republic). Four ponds (two eutrophic and two hypertrophic ones) with different types of fish farming management and intensification measures were selected for the evaluation of the impact of inlet water quality, discharge rate and pond stocking management upon the outlet water quality determinants based on macrozoobenthos evaluation during April–September 2009. Five inlet and four outlet canals were sampled by “kick–sampling” approach and also by using the artificial substrates. The pattern of water quality changes after the flow through the pond was predominantly influenced by inlet water quality. In ponds supplied with worsened inflow water quality with the saprobic index (SI) according to macrozoobenthos corresponding to alpha-mesosaprobity (SI 2.82–2.89), the outflow water quality was significantly improved by approximately half of the saprobic degree on SI 2.38–2.42. On the contrary, the inflow water quality corresponding to beta-mesosaprobity (SI, 2.32) was significantly (p < 0.01) deteriorated to alpha-mesosaprobity in the pond outflow. Macrozoobenthos diversity and the number of taxa reflected the flow through the pond identically with saprobic determinants. In ponds with poor inflow water quality, the number of macrozoobenthos taxa and its diversity increased in the outlet canals, and vice versa, in ponds with good-quality inflow water, the number of taxa and macrozoobenthos diversity decreased in outlet canals.

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Abbreviations

SI:

Saprobic index

MZB:

Macrozoobenthos

MIAS:

Benthic macroinvertebrates colonising artificial substrates

H′:

Shannon–Weaner index

KUR:

Kurdějovský pond

SD:

Standard deviation

SIB:

Šibeník pond

VCE:

Inlet canal Včelínek

VAL:

Inlet canal Valtice

NES:

Pond Nesyt

VRK:

Pond Vrkoč

DO:

Dissolved oxygen

TN:

Total nitrogen

TP:

Total phosphorus

BOD5 :

Biochemical oxygen demand

CC:

Common carp, Cyprinus carpio

CI:

Grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella

AN:

Bighead carp, Aristichthys nobilis

HM:

Silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

EL:

Pike, Esox Lucius

SL:

Zander, Stizostedion lucioperca

TT:

Tench, Tinca tinca

SG:

European catfish, Silurus glanis

CF:

Coarse fish (predominantly common bream, Abramis brama, gibel carp, Carassius gibelio, roach, Rutilus rutilus, rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, silver bream, Blicca bjoerkna, and others)

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Acknowledgments

This study forms part of the projects undertaken within CENAQUA CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0024 (South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses), GA JU 047/2010/07 and VaV SP/2e7/73/08.

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  1. Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic

    Lucie Všetičková

  2. Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, University of South Bohemia in Česke Budejovice, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25, Vodňany, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Adámek

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Všetičková, L., Adámek, Z. The impact of carp pond management upon macrozoobenthos assemblages in recipient pond canals. Aquacult Int 21, 897–925 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-012-9565-x

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