Detailed Information on Publication Record
2016
Constraints on the biological recovery of the Bohemian Forest lakes from acid stress
VRBA, Jaroslav, Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ, Pavel CHVOJKA, Jan FOTT, Jiří KOPÁČEK et. al.Basic information
Original name
Constraints on the biological recovery of the Bohemian Forest lakes from acid stress
Authors
VRBA, Jaroslav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavel CHVOJKA (203 Czech Republic), Jan FOTT (203 Czech Republic), Jiří KOPÁČEK (203 Czech Republic), Miroslav MACEK (203 Czech Republic), Linda NEDBALOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Miroslav PAPÁČEK (203 Czech Republic), Vanda RÁDKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Veronika SACHEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Tomáš SOLDÁN (203 Czech Republic) and Michal ŠORF (203 Czech Republic)
Edition
Freshwater Biology, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 2016, 0046-5070
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 3.255
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/16:00093957
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
000371739600003
Keywords in English
acidification; aluminium; macroinvertebrates; phytoplankton; zooplankton
Změněno: 16/2/2018 15:37, Mgr. Vanda Šorfová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
The response of planktonic (phytoplankton, ciliates, rotifers and crustaceans) and littoral (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) assemblages to chemical recovery was studied over a twelve-year period (1999–2011) in eight glacial lakes in the Bohemian Forest (central Europe). The region suffered from high atmospheric pollution from the 1950s to the late 1980s, but has since been recovering from acidification due to 86% and 44% decrease in sulphur and nitrogen deposition, respectively, during the 1990s–2000s. Despite the rapid improvement in water chemistry of all the eight studied lakes, only four have partly recovered so far (low-aluminium lakes), while the other four lakes still remain strongly acidic (high-aluminium lakes). Although biotic responses (especially in the low-Al lakes) showed important signs of recovery, such as reappearance of some indigenous or acid-sensitive species, decline in eurytopic acid-tolerant species and colonisation by vagile species, the assemblages of all the lakes still suffer from acid stress. Our results also indicate an increasing role of biotic interactions between colonisers and residents leading to the reconstruction of aquatic food webs in the low-Al lakes.