Density and biomass of Gastrotricha in sediments of different types of standing waters
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The results of an investigation of the density and biomass of Gastrotricha in freshwater lakes and in small fertile and shallow water bodies in eastern Poland are presented. The density varied from 495.0 to 2600.0 thousand indiv. m−2 and was affected by water fertility much less than expected. The highest biomass value, 517.9 mg fresh weight m−2, was obtained for one of the fertile water bodies. For lakes, these values were from 200.0 mg m−2 in a dystrophic to 80.0 in an a-mesotrophic lake. In the latter the biomass decreased gradually from 319.8 mg fresh weight m−2 in littoral to 65.0 mg in the profundal zone.
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