CHANGES IN STRUCTURE OF ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES IN THE DAUGAVA RIVER AND PĻAVIŅAS RESERVOIR

Authors

  • Aija Brakovska Laboratory of Hydroecology, Department of Ecology, Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University (LV)
  • Jana Paidere Laboratory of Hydroecology, Department of Ecology, Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University (LV)
  • Rasma Tretjakova Institute of Engineering Faculty of Engineening, Rezekne Academy of Technologies (LV)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/etr2024vol1.7987

Keywords:

Daugava River, Pļaviņas Reservoir, zooplankton groups, Rotifera, Cladocera, Copepoda, water physico-chemical measurements

Abstract

In general 26 taxa of Rotifera, 8 taxa Cladocera and 3 taxa Copepoda group were found in the Daugava River in sampling site- Jēkabpils in 2019, but 25 taxa of Rotifera, 6 taxa Cladocera and 2 taxa Copepoda group were found in the Daugava River in sampling site- Veczeļķi in 2019. In contrast, 26 taxa of Rotifera, 7 taxa Cladocera and 1 taxon Copepoda group were found in the Daugava River in sampling site- Jēkabpils in 2020, and 23 taxa of Rotifera, 1 taxa Cladocera group were found in the Daugava River in sampling site- Veczeļķi in 2020. 28 taxa of Rotifera, 13 taxa Cladocera and 4 taxon Copepoda group were found in the Pļaviņas Reservoir (sampling site- Gostiņi) in 2019, and 25 taxa of Rotifera, 7 taxa Cladocera group and 2 taxon Copepoda group were found in 2020. In the Daugava River in sampling site- Jēkabpils and Veczeļķi the highest percentage of Rotifera taxa were Synchaeta sp., Keratella cochlearis, Brachionus calyciflorus, Brachionus quadridentatus, Euchlanis sp., Polyarthra sp., which were typical species of the Daugava. Cladocera and Copepoda compared with Rotifera have very small percentage of representatives. Rotifera taxa of Pļaviņas Reservoir the highest percentage are Synchaeta sp., Brachionus calyciflorus, Keratella cochlearis, Keratella quadrata, Polyarthra sp. and Asplanchna priodonta. From Cladocera here were found typical of lake zooplankton taxa i.e Bosmina longirostris, Chydorus ovalis, Diaphanosoma brachyurum, Ceriodaphnia sp. Water temperature in the upper layer of the Daugava River and of the Plavinas Reservoir were 22 0C, the dissolved oxygen content 12 mg/l and chlorophyll α concentration 4 μg/l.

Supporting Agencies
Daugavpils University Research Project No.14-95/2024/4 “Spatial structural and functional variations of the zooplankton and macroinvertebrates communities in the River Daugava”.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

C. De Vargas, S. Audic, N. Henry, J. Decelle, F. Mahé, R. Logares, E. Lara, C. Berney, N. Le Bescot, I. Probert, et al., “Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean,” Science, pp. 348, 2015.

S.K. Mukhopadhyay, B. Chattopadhyay, A.R. Goswami and A. Chatterjee, “Spatial variations in zooplankton diversity in waters contaminated with composite effluents,” J. Limnol, pp. 66, 97, 2007.

K.H. Chang and T. Hanazato, “Diel vertical migrations of invertebrate predators (Leptodora kindtii, Thermocyclops taihokuensis, and Mesocyclops sp.) in a shallow, eutrophic lake,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 528, pp. 249–259, October 2004.

P. Cimdiņš, Limnoekoloģija, [Limnoecology] Rīga: Mācību apgāds, 2001.

P. D.N. Hebert, “Competition in zooplankton communities,” Annales Zoologici Fennici, vol. 19, pp. 349-356, 1982.

B. J. Malone and D. J. McQueen, “Horizontal patchiness in zooplankton populations in two Ontario kettle lakes,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 99, pp. 101–124, 1983.

B.M. Padedda, N. Sechi, G.G. Lai, M.A. Mariani, S. Pulina, M. Sarria, C.T. Satta, T. Virdis, P. Buscarinu and A. Lugliè, “Consequences of eutrophication in the management of water resources in Mediterranean reservoirs: a case study of Lake Cedrino (Sardinia, Italy) ,” Glob. Ecol. Conserv., vol.12, pp. 21–35, 2017.

B. Pinel-Alloul, “Spatial heterogeneity as a multiscale characteristic of zooplankton community,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 300, pp. 17-42, March 1995.

R.G. Wetzel, Limnology. Lake and River Ecosystems. Third Edition. Academic Press, 2001.

J. Bengtsson, “Life histories, interspecific competition between three Daphnia species in rockpools,” Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 55, no.2, pp. 641–655, 1986.

J. Bertilsson, B. Bērziņš and B. Pejler, “Occurrence of limnic micro-crustaceans in relation to temperature and oxygen,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 299, pp. 163-167, 1995.

B. Bērziņš and B. Pejler, “Rotifer occurrence in relation to pH,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 147, pp. 107- 116, 1987.

B. Bērziņš and B. Pejler, “Rotifer occurrence in relation to temperature,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 175, pp. 223-231, 1989a.

B. Bērziņš and B. Pejler, “Rotifer occurrence in relation to oxygen content,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 183, pp. 165-172, 1989b.

R. Escribano and P. Hidalgo, “Spatial distribution Spatial distribution of copepods in the north of the Humboldt Current region off Chile during coastal upwelling,” Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, vol. 80, pp. 283-290, 2000.

M.J. Fernandez-Rosado and J. Lucena, “Space-time heterogeneities of the zooplankton distribution in LaConcepción reservoir (Istán, Málaga; Spain),” Hydrobiologia, vol. 455, pp. 157–170, 2001.

T. Hanazato, “Pesticides as chemical agents inducing helmets formation in Daphnia ambigua,” Freshwater Biology, vol. 26, pp. 419–424, 1991.

K.D.M. Harris, N.J. Bartlett, and V.K. Lloyd, “Daphnia as an emerging epigenetic model organism,” Genetic Research International, ID 147892, 2012.

J. Horppila, T. Malinen, L. Nurminen, P. Tallberg, and M. Vinni, “A metalimnetic oxygen minimum indirectly contributing to the low biomass of cladocerans in Lake Hiidenvesi – a diurnal study on the refuge effect,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 436, pp. 81–90, 2000.

P. Larsson and S.I. Dodson, “Chemical communication in planktonic animals”. Archiv für Hydrobiologie, vol. 129, pp. 129–155, 1993.

A. Locke and W.G. Sprules, “Effects of pH, food quality and quantity on survival and condition of Bosmina longirostris and Daphnia pulex,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 437, pp. 187–196, 2000.

N.R. Simões, M.A.M. Colares, F.A. Lansac-Tôha and C.C. Bonecker, “Zooplankton species richness-productivity relationship: confronting monotonic positive and hump-shaped models from a local perspective,” Austral Ecol., vol. 38, pp. 952–958, 2013.

J. Seda and M. Devetter, “Zooplankton com¬munity structure along a trophic gradient in a canyon-shaped dam reservoir,” Journal of Plankton Research, no. 22, no. 10, pp. 1829–1840, 2000.

P. Tallberg, J. Horppila, A. Väisänen and L. Nurminen, “Seasonal succession of hyto-plankton and zooplankton along a trophic gradient in a eutrophic lake – implications for food web management,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 412, pp. 81–94, 1999.

L. J. Weider and J. Pijanowska, “Plasticity of Daphnia life histories in response to chemical cues from predators”, Oikos, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 385–392, 1993.

Daugavas upju baseinu apgabala apsaimniekošanas plāns un plūdu riska pārvaldības plāns 2022.-2027. gadam. [Daugava river basin area management plan and flood risk management plan for the year from 2022 to 2027], Rīga, Latvijas Vides, ģeoloģijas un meteoroloģijas centrs, pp. 464, 2021. .http://www.videscentrs.lvgmc.lv/files/Daugavas_UBA.pdf (accessed 16 January 2024).

A. Tidriķis, “Pļaviņu Ūdenskrātuve,” [Pļaviņas Reservoir] In Latvijas Daba, vol. 4, Rīga: Preses Nams, pp. 166–167, 1997.

Standard Methods Committee of the American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Environment Federation, “10200 Plankton,” in Standard Methods For the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 21st ed., A.D. Eaton, M. A. H. Franson, L.S. Clesceri, E.W. Rice, A.E. Greenberg, Eds. Washington DC: APHA Press, 2005.

R.G. Wetzel and G.E.Likens, Limnological Analyses. Springer Science: Business Media, 2000.

J.A.H. Benzie, “Cladocerans: The Genus Daphnia (Including Daphniopsis),” in Guide to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World, vol. 21. H.J.F. Dumont, Ed., Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 2005.

M. Dagg, “The Biology of Calanoid Copepods,” The Biology of Calanoid Copepods, 1977.

H. J. Dumont and V. Negrea, Introduction to the Class Branchiopoda. Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World, Vol.19. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 2002.

B.H. Dussart and D. Defaye, “Introduction to the Copepoda,” in Guides to the identification of the microinvertebrates of the continental waters of the world, 2nd ed., vol. 16. H.J.F. Dumont, Ed., Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 2001.

D. Flössner, Die Haplopoda und Cladocera (ohne Bosminidae) Mitteleuropas. [The Haplopoda and Cladocera (excluding Bosminidae) of Central Europe] Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. 2000.

D. Flössner, Die Haplopoda und Cladocera Mitteleuropas. [The Haplopoda and Cladocera of Central Europe] Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. 2002.

I. Hudec, Fauna Slovenska. Anomopoda, Ctenopoda, Haplopoda, Onychopoda (Crustacea, Brachiopoda). Bratislava: VEDA, 2010.

A.A. Kotov, Cladocera: Family Ilyocryptidae (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda), Leiden: Kenobi Productions, Ghent & Backhuys Publishers, 2006.

D. Krauter, H. Streble, Das Leben im Wassertropfen. Mikroflora und Mikrofauna des Süβwassers [Life in drops of water. Freshwater microflora and microfauna], Kosmos: Stuttgart, 1988.

U. Lieder, Crustacea: Cladocera/Bosminidae. Süsswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa [Freshwater fauna of Central Europe], Bd. 8, H. 2-3, Ed., Ulm: G.Fischer, Stuttgart, Jena, Lübeck, 1996.

T. Nogrady and H. Segers H, “Rotifera 6: Asplanchnidae, Gastropodidae, Lindiidae, Microcodidae, Synchaetidae, Trochospohaeridae and Filinia.,” in Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 18. H.J. Dumont, Ed. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 2002.

J. Paidere and R. Škute, Virpotāji (Rotifera) un to fauna Latvijā [Rotifera and their fauna in Latvia], Daugavpils: Daugavpils University, 2011.

R.M. Pontin, A Key to the Freshwater Planktonic and Semi-planktonic Rotifera of the British Isles. Freshwater Biological Association, United Kingdom: Association Scientific Publication, 1978.

I. Bielańska-Grajner, J. Ejsmont- Karabin, S. Radwan, Rotifers (Rotifera): Freshwater Fauna of Poland. Łódź: Jagiellonian University Press, 2015.

I.K. Rivier, The predatory Cladocera (Onychopoda: Podonidae, Polyphemidae, Cercopagidae) and Leptodoridae of the world, Amsterdam: Backhuys Publ, 1998.

A.Ruttner-Kolisko, Plankton Rotifers: Biology and Taxonomy. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 1974.

D.J. Scourfield and J.P. Harding, A Key to the British Species of Freshwater Cladocera, with Notes on their Ecology. Publication, 3rd ed., vol. 5 United Kingdom: Freshwater Biological Association Scientific, 1994.

H. Segers, “Rotifera 2. The Lecanidae (Monogononta),” in Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World 6, H.J. Dumont and T. Nogrady, Eds. The Netherlands: SPB Academic Publishing, 1995.

H. Segers, Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera) with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy and distribution. Zootaxa, vol. 1564, no. 1, pp. 1-104. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press, Aug 2007.

N. Sloka, Latvijas PSR Dzīvnieku noteicējs. Latvijas zarūsaiņu (Cladocera) fauna un noteicējs [A Key to Animals of the Latvian SSR. Fauna of the Cladocera and a key of Latvia]. P. Stučkas, Ed. Rīga: Latvijas valsts universitāte, 1981.

N.N. Smirnov, Cladocera: the Chydorinae and Sayciinae. Amsterdam: Backhuys Publ., 1996.

L.A. Kutikova, Коловратки фауны СССР [Fauna of Rotifera USSR]. Leningrad: Nauka, 1970.

L.A. Kutikova and Ya.I. Starobogatov, Определитель пресноводных беспозвоночных Европейской части СССР [The key to freshwater European part of the USSR (plankton and benthos)]. Leningrad: Hydrometoizdat, 1977.

E.F. Manuilova, Ветвистоусые рачки фауны СССР [Fauna of Cladocera of the USSR]. Moscow- Leningrad: Nauka, 1964.

D.R. Margalef, “Information theory in ecology”. General Systems, vol. 3, pp. 36- 71, 1958.

J.Ch. Krebs, Ecological Methodology. Second Edition. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.

R.H. MacArthur, “Patterns of species diversity,” Biological Reviews, vol. 40, pp. 510-533, 1965.

G. Kavacs, Latvijas daba: enciklopēdija,[Encyclopaedia of Latvia’s Nature] 1. sēj. Rīga: Latvijas enciklopēdija: Preses nams, 1994.

R. J. Škute, Зоопланктон реки Даугавы (кроме низовий) и его роль в продуктивности и санитарно-биологической оценке реки. [Zooplankton of the River Daugava and its role in the productivity and biological evaluating of the river] Doctoral theses. Tartu:Tartu University, 1971.

A. Akin-Oriola Gbemisola, “Zooplankton associations and environmental factors in Ogunpa and Ona Rivers, Nigeria,” Revista de biologia tropical, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 391–398, 2003.

R. Deksne, “Influence of waste water on zooplankton communities in the Daugava River upstream and downstream of Daugavpils over the last 50 years,” Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, vol. 402, no. 07, pp. 1 – 17, 2011.

R. Deksne, A. Škute and J. Paidere, “Changes in structure of zooplankton communities in the Middle Daugava (Western Dvina) over the last five decades,” Acta Zoologica Lituanica, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 190 -208, 2010.

A. Brakovska, J. Paidere, and A. Škute, “Number and dynamics of zooplankton taxa in the Daugava river and Pļaviņas reservoir,” Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 15 – 29, 2016.

N. Lair, “A review of regulation mechanisms of metazoan plankton in riverine ecosystems: aquatic habitat versusbiota,”River Research and Applications, vol. 22, pp. 567–593, 2006.

M. L. Pace, S. E. G. Findlay and D. Lints, “Zooplankton in advective environments: the Hudson River community and a comparative analysis,” Canadian Journal of Fishery and Aquatic Science, vol. 49, pp. 1060–1069, 1992.

J. H. Thorp, M. C. Thoms and M. D. Delong, “The riverine ecosystem synthesis: biocomplexity in river networks across space and time, ” River Research and Applications, vol. 22: pp. 123–147, 2006.

J. H. Thorp and S. Mantovani, “Zooplankton of turbid and hydrologically dynamic prairie rivers,” Freshwater Biology, vol. 50, pp. 1474–1491, 2005.

R. Pourriot, C. Rougier and A. Miquelis, “Origin and development of river zooplankton: Example of the Marne,” Hydrobiologia, vol. 345, pp. 143–148, 1997.

R. J. Škute, Районирование реки Даугавы по зоопланктону. [Regionalism of the Daugava River according to zooplankton]. In: Škute R. J. (ed.) Ecological and biological investigations of water animals, Riga: Zvaigzne. pp. 43-55, 1976.

L. Viroux, “Seasonal and longitudinal aspects R. Czerniawski and J. Domagała, of microcrustacean (Cladocera, Copepoda) dynamics in a lowland river,” Journal of Plankton Research, vol. 24, 281–292, 2002.

V. I. Lazareva, Структура и динамика зоопланктона Рыбинского водохранилища, [Zooplankton structure and dynamics in the Rybinsk Reservoir] Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd., 2010.

R. Czerniawski and J. Domagała, “Zooplankton communities of two lake outlets in relation to abiotic factors,” Central European Journal of Biology, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 240–255, 2010 a.

R. Czerniawski and J. Domagała, “Similarities in zooplankton community between River Drawa and its two tributaries (Polish part of River Odra),” Hydrobiologia, vol. 638, pp. 137–149, 2010 b.

K. H. Chang, H. Doi, H. Imai, F. Gunji and S. I. Nakano, “Longitudinal changes in zooplankton distribution below a reservoir outfall with reference to river planktivory,” Limnology, vol. 9, pp. 125–133, 2008.

C. Baranyi, T. Hein, C. Holarek, S. Keckeis and F. Schiemer, “Zooplankton biomass and community structure in a Danube River floodplain system: effects of hydrology,” Freshwater Biology, vol. 47, pp. 473–482, 2002.

B. K. Basu and F. R. Pick “Factors regulating phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass in temperate rivers,” Limnological Oceanography, vol. 41, pp. 1572–1577, 1996.

K. H. Chang, S. J. Hwang, M. H. Jang, H. W. Kim, K. S. Jeong and G. J Joo, “Effect of juvenile fish predation on the zooplankton community in the large regulated Nakdong River, South Korea,” Korean Journal of Limnology, vol. 34, pp. 310–318, 2001.

J. F. Saunders and W. M. Jr. Lewis, “Zooplankton abundance in the Caura River, Venezuela,” Biotropica, vol. 20, pp. 206–214, 1988.

J. H. Thorp and A. F. “Casper Importance of biotic interactions in large rivers: an experiment with planktivorous fish, dreissenid mussels and zooplankton in the St. Lawrence River,” River Research Application, vol. 19, pp. 265–279, 2003.

Downloads

Published

2024-06-22

How to Cite

[1]
A. Brakovska, J. Paidere, and R. Tretjakova, “CHANGES IN STRUCTURE OF ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES IN THE DAUGAVA RIVER AND PĻAVIŅAS RESERVOIR”, ETR, vol. 1, pp. 78–85, Jun. 2024, doi: 10.17770/etr2024vol1.7987.