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- Title
Remote mountain lakes of Eastern Siberia: a pattern of ecologically pure non-industrialised water-bodies.
- Authors
Bondarenko, Nina; Sheveleva, Natalia; Rozhkova, Natalia; Matveev, Arkadiy; Samusenok, Vitaliy; Vokin, Alexey; Yuriev, Anatoliy
- Abstract
A 3-year study of the biota of the remote mountain lakes of Amut, Balan-Tamur, and Yakondykon, situated in the Dzherginsky State Reserve in the Baikalian region of Eastern Siberia, was carried out from 2006 to 2008. Examining the biota of non-modern and non-industrialised mountain lakes allowed us to reveal its background in relation to the species composition of plankton, the main groups of benthos and fishes, production potential, and seasonal dynamics of the ecosystem's basic links. Our data on pH and biota were compared with the findings of a previous study in 1986 in order to evaluate possible changes associated with probable acidification. We observed that the lakes of the Dzherginsky State Reserve have high species diversity. Despite this, they are classed as oligotrophic water-bodies with regard to the development level of their planktonic and benthic coenoses. These lakes are not polluted by anthropogenic activity and so could be considered as a pattern of ecologically pure water-bodies. It is important to add that high mountain lakes of Pribaikalye presently serve as refuges for species that were widespread during past geological epochs.
- Subjects
SIBERIA (Russia); RUSSIA; LAKES; BIOTIC communities; ECOLOGY of plankton; LAKE acidification; SPECIES diversity -- Environmental aspects
- Publication
Environmental Earth Sciences, 2017, Vol 76, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
1866-6280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12665-017-6708-4