DATE2019-01-08 12:44:24
IDABSTRACT2014/517
CONTACTmeryem@metu.edu.tr
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IDSESSION5
TITLEECOLOGY OF MEDITERRANEAN SHALLOW LAKES OF TURKEY THROUGH IMPACT OF CLIMATE AND NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT: SPACE FOR TIME SUBSTITUTE APPROACH
AUTHORSMeryem Beklioğlu (1)|Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu (1)|Nihan Tavşanoğlu (1)|Eti Levi (1)|Arda Özen (1)|Tuba Bucak (1)|Korhan Özkan (1)|Didem Ozguzkurt (2)
AFFILIATIONS
  1. Middle East Technical University, Biology Department, Limnology Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey
  2. İnönü Üniversitesi, Biyoloji Bölümü, Malatya, Turkey
ABSTRACTMediterranean climate with natural annual and interannual oscillations of wet and dry periods leads to changes in the water balance, which strongly affects the functioning of shallow lakes with implication for major ions and nutrient balances. Thirty-one shallow lakes spanning over 5 latitudes from the warm temperate north to the semi arid to arid mid and south of Western Anatolian Plate of Turkey were sampled for physico-chemical and biological variables using well-established snap-shop sampling protocol. All lakes were analysed using nMDS which resulted in four relatively distinct groups of lakes which included saline lakes and eutrophic lakes being located in the southern lower latitues and altitudes (Southern high altitude and low altitude lakes) characterized with high net evaporation. Northern high altitude lakes with clear-water, low temperature, macrophytes and low fish as constituted third group. Fourth group included northern lowland lakes which were eutrophic. Diversity and richness of plankton, macrophytes and fish community and trophic structure of lakes were further analysed and discussed in depth.
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