ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Studies on Sustainability of Planktonic Rotifer
Assemblages in Select National Park Ponds
and Wetland Reservoirs
Andrzej Demetraki-Paleolog
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Department of Hydrobiology, University of Life Sciences,
Dobrzańskiego 37, 20-262 Lublin, Poland
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2014;23(1):51-56
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ABSTRACT
One of the most interesting though little-known water ecosystems of Łęczyńsko-Włodawskie Lakeland
is its small water bodies – ponds and wetland reservoirs. Three ponds and three wetland reservoirs were studied
in 2008 and then again in 2012 and 2013 to examine their rotifer assemblages. While watching the changes
occurring in the plankton during periods of 4 and 5 years, we were trying to find out which of the reservoirs
were inhabited by more sustainable rotifer assemblages and which ecological qualities were more closely
related to such sustainability. The results of the studies revealed different, though insignificant, variability in
the ecological properties of planktonic rotifer assemblages, particularly in the ponds, as well as they suggested
some relationship between the sustainability of planktonic assemblages and their species diversity.