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Zooplankton—phytoplankton interactions have been studied in three shallow lakes of different trophic state. In strongly eutrophic, large and very shallow Lake Võrtsjärv the grazing does not play a leading role in controlling phytoplankton production and its standing stock. Small-size zooplankton can not eat filamentous blue-greens. The nutrient regeneration by zooplankton has a weak impact on phytoplankton, the latter being limited rather by underwater light than by nutrient availability. In large moderately eutrophic Lake Peipsi the presence of concentrated zooplankton in the experimental vessel mostly stimulated steady-state phytoplankton growth and negative grazing values were measured. Most probably the nutrients (N, P), excreted by zooplankton in grazing chamber stimulated the growth of larger phytoplankton which dominated because of heavy grazing pressure on edible forms. In Lake Peipsi phytoplankton seems to be nutrient-limited and heavily controlled by zooplankton community. In eutrophic, macrophyte-dominated Lake Yaskhan zooplankton in grazing chamber also mainly stimulated the growth of phytoplankton community which seemed to be nutrient-limited because of strong competition with macrophytes.
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Nõges, T. (1997). Zooplankton—phytoplankton interactions in lakes Võrtsjärv, Peipsi (Estonia) and Yaskhan (Turkmenia). In: Kufel, L., Prejs, A., Rybak, J.I. (eds) Shallow Lakes ’95. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5648-6_19
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