This study compares the abundance and community structure of zooplankton organisms from pelagic regions, and considers particularly the trophic levels vs. zooplankton abundances and biomass. Zooplankton samples were collected three times from May to November 2022, at 30 temperate lakes and reservoirs, which belong to four different river basins. The total zooplankton abundance, biomass and species index were showed considerable spatial variation. The spatial pattern of rotifer abundance was similar to that of total zooplankton abundance, while there were not showed similar patterns of zooplankton biomass (μg L-1) in lentic ecosystems. The rotifer strongly dominated the zooplankton assemblage in smaller lentic system than that of larger. A total of 130 species of zooplankton were identified (83 rotifers, 34 cladocerans and 13 copepods). The total average of zooplankton abundance and biomass were 213.7±342.3 Ind. L-1 (n=129) and 1382.8±1850.4 μg L-1, respectively. Total and average of zooplankton abundance were usually dominated by the rotifers (>56.9%), while those of zooplankton biomass were dominated by the cladocerans and copepods (>73.6%) in lentic ecosystems. Considering the Trophic State Index (TSI), the factors of zooplankton abundance and biomass were included in between meso- and eutrophic states (27 lakes, 90% of all). The mean abundance and biomass of zooplankton in eutrophic systems were higher than that of meso- and hypertrophic systems. From this result, we suggest that management strategy for the lentic ecosystem water environment has to be focused more on small-sized lakes and reservoirs, in terms of zooplankton assemblages.

The time series data of rotifer community focusing on the species number and total density were collected from 29 reservoirs located at Jeonnam Province from 2008 to 2016 quarterly. The reservoirs had similar weather condition during the study period, but their sizes and water qualities were different. To analyze the temporal dynamics of rotifer community, the medians, ranges, outliers and coefficient of variation (CV) value of rotifer species number and abundance were compared. For the temporal trend analysis, time series of each reservoir data were compared and clustered using the dynamic time warping function of the R package “dtwclust”. Small-sized reservoirs showed higher variability in rotifer abundance with more frequent outliers than large-sized reservoirs. On the other hand, apparent pattern was not observed for the rotifer species number. For the temporal pattern of rotifer density, COD, phytoplankton abundance fluctuation, and cladoceran abundance fluctuation have been suggested as potential factor affecting the rotifer abundance dynamics.

낙동강 수계의 20개 저수지 및 습지에서 환경요인에 대한 동물플랑크톤 군집의 영향을 평가하기 위해 계절별 조사를 수행하였으며 다양한 환경 요인에 대한 동물플랑크톤의 영향을 효과적으로 분석하기 위해 Self-Organizing Map(SOM) 분석을 이용하였다. 총 109종의 동물플랑크톤 종이 동정되었으며, 동물플랑크톤의 밀도와 종수는 계절에 따라 상이한 분포를 나타냈다. 특히, 가을은 다른 계절보다 동물플랑크톤의 높은 종수와 밀도를 기록하였다(98종, 603 ind. /L). 윤충류는 다른 환경요소보다 수온과 밀접하게 연관되었으며, 이는 계절에 따른 영향을 크게 받는 것으로 보인다. 지각류와 요각류는 전기전도도, Chl. a, 영양염류(TN, TP) 대해서 영향 받았으며, 이는 오염원 및 먹이원에 영향을 크게 받는 것으로 보인다. 그러나, 용존산소가 높은 정수역에서는 대부분 동물플랑크톤이 낮은 밀도를 보였다. 저수지 및 습지에서 출현하는 동물플랑크톤 군집은 수온이나 영양염류 등의 환경요인에 대해 주로 영향 받는 것으로 평가되었다. 결론적으로 저수지와 습지와 같은 정수역에서 출현하는 동물플랑크톤 군집의 조성 및 밀도는 환경요인과 밀접하게 연관되는 것으로 나타났으며, 환경요인의 변화는 동물플랑크톤의 계절성을 결정하는 중요한 요인인 것으로 평가되었다.

This study compares the abundance and community structure of zooplankton organisms from the littoral and pelagic regions, and considers particularly trophic levels vs. zooplankton abundances. Zooplankton samples, collected every 3 months over a year from 2010 to 2011 at 29 temperate lakes and reservoirs, which belong to two different river basins (Youngsan and Seomjin River). The spatial pattern of rotifers was similar to that of total zooplankton abundance. This reflected the fact that rotifers strongly dominated the zooplankton community. There were considerable spatial variations in total zooplankton abundance (ANOVA, p＜0.01), while there were no significant differences both in littoral and pelagic regions in abundance of zooplankton (ANOVA, p=0.205). The mean abundance of zooplankton in eutrophic systems was much higher than that of mesotrophic systems, while significant difference in number of species and diversity index were not shown in both trophic systems.