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The effect of anthropogenic acidification on the hydrofauna of the lakes of the West Tatra Mountains (Slovakia)

✍ Scribed by Marian Vranovský; Il'ja Krno; Ferdinand Šporka; Jozef Tomajka

Publisher
Springer
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
437 KB
Volume
274
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-5141

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✦ Synopsis

Fourteen West Tatra lakes were studied, of which one could be considered to be recently anthropogenically acidified and eight others classified as acidification-endangered. In the anthropogenically acidified lake, the zooplankton assemblage has been substantially altered (three mountain-lake crustacean species have been eliminated). Several littoral macrobenthic species sensitive to acidification have either been eliminated from the acidified and acidification-endangered lakes or occur only sporadically. The effect of acidification has so far not been observed on the benthic fauna of the lakes medial which is probably due to the higher pH below the surface of sediment. In comparison with the High Tatra, acid depositions have had a less pronounced effect on the lakes of the West Tatra.

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