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. 2019 May 11;26(19):19575–19587. doi: 10.1007/s11356-019-05107-z

Table 1.

The parameters of Trophic State Index based on zooplankton (Ejsmont-Karabin 2012; Ejsmont-Karabin and Karabin 2013), total phosphorus, chlorophyll a and water transparency (the results were published—Rosińska et al. 2015) and parameters of trophic state based on zooplankton abundance (1Andronikova 1996; 2Haberman and Haldna 2014)

Parameter with formula B R1 R2 R3
Rotifera
1

Rotifer numbers (N, ind. L−1)

TSIROT1 = 5.38 ln(N) + 19.28

66.73 65.98 72.65 64.59
2

Total biomass of rotifer community (B, mg w.wt. L−1)

TSIROT2 = 5.63 ln(B) + 64.47

70.35 64.83 73.81 68.55
3

Percentage of bacterivores in total rotifer numbers (BAC, %)

TSIROT3 = 0.23 BAC + 44.30

57.56 61.21 61.24 57.56
4

Percentage of the tecta form in the population of Keratella cochlearis (TECTA, %)

TSIROT4 = 0.187 TECTA + 50.38

68.54 66.99 68.57 61.85
5

Ratio of biomass to numbers (B/N, mg w.wt. ind.−1)

TSIROT5 = 3.85 (B/N)−0.318

45.63 59.62 53.27 44.51
6

Contribution of species which indicate high trophic state in the indicatory group’s number (IHT, %)

TSIROT6 = 0.203 IHT + 40.0

60.18 60.20 60.29 60.06
TSIROT 61.50 63.14 64.97 59.52
Trophy based on zooplankton (55–65—eutrophy) Eutrophy
Carlson’s Trophic State Index
1 TSITP 73.86 75.94 74.47 68.77
2 TSIChl 70.09 62.03 59.09 66.19
3 TSISD 61.35 56.43 57.37 56.79
TSI mean value 70.80 65.60 65.20 66.40
Trophy based on physicochemical parameters (50–70—eutrophy) Hypertrophy Eutrophy
Parameters based on zooplankton abundance
1 The proportion of Rotifera and Cladocera in total numbers1 54 63 245 19
2 The ratio of numbers of Cladocera to numbers of Copepoda—NClad/NCop1 0.29 0.10 0.21 0.42
3 Rotifer abundance (ind. L−1)2 6761 5882 20,334 4545
4 The percentage share of rotifers in total zooplankton abundance2 92.48 84.87 97.68 84.60
5 The ratio of crustaceans abundance to rotifer abundance NCrust/NRot2 0.08 0.18 0.02 0.18