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Employing in situ enclosures containing inocula of the lake zooplankton (mainly Daphnia galeata,Daphnia cucullata and Bosmina spp.) from a moderately eutrophic Lake Ros (Northern Poland) or large-bodied Daphina magna, the following observations on succession of phytoplankton were made: 1) whereas D. magna could control the density of all the photoplankton size classes, the lake zooplankton could not suppress the large-sized phytoplankters or net phytoplankton; 2) the lake zooplankton was able to control the density of small algae (<50 μm), but its effect on large algae may be opposite: a promotion of net phytoplankton growth by removing small-sized algae which can out-compete net phytoplankton for limited PO4-P resources (< 5 μg P1−1).
Since efficiency of phytoplankton density control by D. magna decreased with an increase in net phytoplankton abundance, biomanipulation could not be successful without introducing or maintaining a high population of large-bodied cladoceran species before high densities of large algae would make the control of phytoplankton inefficient.
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Dawidowicz, P. (1990). Effectiveness of phytoplankton control by large-bodied and small-bodied zooplankton. In: Gulati, R.D., Lammens, E.H.R.R., Meijer, ML., van Donk, E. (eds) Biomanipulation Tool for Water Management. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0924-8_4
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