Qualitative and quantitative aspects of the evolution of the planktonic populations in Lake Lugano |
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| Authors: | Bruno Polli Marco Simona |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratorio Studi Ambientali, Sezione Protezione Aria ed Acqua, Dipartimento del Territorio, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | This study is a summary of all available information on the long-term and on the more recent development of the planktonic populations in Lago di Lugano with regard to its trophic evolution. The first effects of the lake eutrophication became manifest beginning in the 1950's and brought to important changes in the planktonic community as the appearance and the rapid increase of the filamentous algaeOscillatoria rubescens andStephanodiscus hantzschii, and the disappearance of the zooplanktonic Diaptomidae. Since 1980 the phosphorus concentration began to decrease in lake's epilimnion and the planktonic community showed a new composition, evidencing the presence of others predominant species:Oscillatoria redekei, Lyngbya limnetica, Stephanodiscus sp. (little form). Since 1989 algal standing crop reduced its value below 2 g m–2 (dry weight); furthermore a strong decrease of the Cyanophceae and the appearance of new predominant species (Tabellaria fenestrata, div. Ulotrichales) occurred. At the same time an increase of the herbivorous zooplankton (Daphnia hyalina) and the come-back of the Diaptomidae was observed. Only in the northern basin a decrease tendency of the primary production was observed, changing from 480 to about 300 g C m–2 yr–1 during the last 10 years. |
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| Keywords: | Lake Lugano (Lago die Lugano) eutrophication temporal dynamics phytoplankton zooplankton primary production |
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