Biotic interactions, energy pathways and trigger factors of ecosystem dynamics in shallow saline lakes
Journal: Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
Year: 2014

Environmental variables, food-web dynamics, and energy pathways were investigated in ecosystems of six shallow lakes of the Crimea with salinity ranging from 24 to 340‰. There were considerable inter- and intra-annual #uctuations in the abiotic characteristics of the lakes. All the lakes had a very high concentration of total phosphorus in the water (up to 5.6 gP m-3) due to a great influence of the watershed on the lakes. A high level of primary production (up to 14.9 gC m-2 d-1) was found in t