✦ LIBER ✦
Comparative analysis of plankton rotifer biomass in large Estonian lakes
✍ Scribed by J. Haberman
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Volume
- 104
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5141
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✦ Synopsis
The number and biomass of rotifers in large eutrophic lakes is small in winter, reaches a maximum in spring or summer and decreases to a winter minimum . The dynamics of rotifer participation as part of total zooplankton is opposite to their absolute number : the role of rotifers in zooplankton is great in winter, starts decreasing in spring, reaches a minimum in summer and increases again to its winter maximum . The number and biomass of rotifers is proportional to the trophy of the waterbody, but in the case of some species this correlation is inverse .