Plankton Community in the Pelagic and Littoral Zones of the Overgrown Lake Beloe (Volzhsko-Kamskiy Biosphere Natural State Reserve, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation)

Abstract

Comparative analysis of different groups of the planktonic community (phytoplankton, protozoo- and zooplankton) was performed in the pelagic and littoral zones of overgrown Lake Beloe (Volzhsko- Kamskiy Biosphere Natural State Reserve, Republic of Tatarstan, Russain Federation). We detected a remarkable diversity of both pelagic and sublittoral plankton. The planktonic community of the macrophyte zone differs from the community of pelagic zone in a species composition and in larger species diversity

Keywords

• protozooplankton
• zooplankton
• planktonic community
• abundance
• biomass
• macrophytes