Zoobenthic communities in relation to the depth zones in a large boreal lake in Finland

Effects of long-term non-point eutrophication on the abundance and biomass of macrozoobenthos in small lakes of Estonia

“…Macrozoobenthic animals (with body length > 2 mm) as biological indicators for lakes are used in three main directions. First, the profundal communities consisting mainly of chironomid and oligochaete species have been widely used in biomonitoring (Giziński, 1978;Wiśniewski & Dusoge, 1983;Schell & Kerekes, 1989;Johnson & Wiederholm, 1990;Mastrantuono, 1993;Lang & Reymond, 1996;Bazzanti et al, 1998;Dinsmore et al, 1999;Meriläinen et al, 2000;Lang, 2001). In addition, the animal communities of the lake littoral, as well as stream macroinvertebrates, can be used as indicators of anthropogenic disturbance (Brodersen et al, 1998;Johnson & Goedkoop, 2000;Holopainen et al, 2001;Lewis et al, 2001;White, 2002).…”