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Experimental impacts of fish on small and large cladocerans under eutrophic conditions

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The impacts of fish and nutrient enrichment on the biomass of small and large cladoceran species were studied in mesocosms under eutrophic conditions. Fish shifted the ratio between small and large species to favour small cladocerans compared to control mesocosms, while nutrient enrichment favoured large cladocerans. Both fish vital activity and nutrient enrichment increased total and blue-green algae concentrations. While chlorophyll concentrations increased in response to fish and nutrient enrichment, there were no significant effects of fish on total cladoceran biomass and the relative proportion of large species due to high variability among replicates within treatments. However, fish and nutrient enrichment affected average total cladoceran biomass and the biomass of large species compared to control conditions.

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  1. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninski pr. 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia

    I. Yu. Feniova & V. G. Petrosyan

  2. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur st., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland

    M. Rzepecki & I. Kostrzewska-Szlakowska

  3. Zubov State Oceanographic Institute, Federal Service for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (Rosgidromet), Kropotkinskii per. 6, Moscow, 119034, Russia

    N. S. Zilitinkevicz

  4. Institute for Biology of Inland Waters RAS, Borok, Yaroslavl obl., 152742, Russia

    A. V. Krylov

  5. The Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, str. Akademicheskaya, 27, Minsk, 220072, Belarus

    N. N. Majsak & V. I. Razlutskij

  6. Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, 501 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA

    A. R. Dzialowski

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Feniova, I.Y., Rzepecki, M., Zilitinkevicz, N.S. et al. Experimental impacts of fish on small and large cladocerans under eutrophic conditions. Inland Water Biol 9, 375–381 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082916040040

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