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Aquatic insect assemblages in littoral zones of ponds and other man-made habitats
KOLÁŘ, Vojtěch
This thesis focuses on aquatic insect and newt assemblages in fishponds and other man-made standing waters. It reviews the effects of fishpond management and restoration of post-mining sites on main aquatic taxa, with main focus on aquatic insects in the littoral zone. The next five chapters deal with long-term changes of the littoral habitats in fishponds and with various aspects of the importance of littoral habitats for aquatic organisms, mainly predatory insects and newts. The results are used to recommend management approaches aimed to increase biodiversity and conservation value of fishponds and other man-made habitats.
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Influence of fish pond management, land use in catchment and climate change on species composition of blue-green algae blooms
Kroupová, Kristýna ; Stuchlík, Evžen (advisor) ; Pivokonský, Martin (referee)
The aim of the thesis was to explain expansion of cyanobacterial blooms and the change of their species composition in surface standing waters during the last 2-3 decades as a result of fishery management, land use in catchments, and climate change. Cyanobacteria possess a range of unique and highly-adaptable eco-physiological traits, which enable them a mass occurrence and a dominance over the other phytoplankton groups under recent anthropogenic changes (nutrient loading and rising temperatures). Moreover, many species of cyanobacteria produce cyanotoxins, which increase their resistence against zooplankton grazing and cause severe deterioration of the water quality. In consequence of changes in fishery management (a decrease in the use of superphosphate as a fertilizer during the year 1970), the fish stock density increased and the clear water phase disappeared. This is responsible for a change in species composition of cyanobacterial water blooms. Summer blooms of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae were replaced with A. flos-aquae var. klebahnii. The current composition of water blooms in ponds differs considerably from the typical composition in the 1990s. For example, recent expansion of Woronichiniana naegeliana is caused by the higher stock densities and the shift from a two-year cycle of fishery management...
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Impacts of eutrophication on water quality in reservoirs: an assessment of nutrient inputs from catchment and of the anti-eutrophication resistance of reservoir ecosystem
Hejzlar, Josef ; Duras, J. ; Staňková, B. ; Turek, Jan ; Žaloudík, Jiří
The paper describes a methodology for the identification and quantification of nutrient sources in catchments (i.e. mainly point and diffuse sources, fishpond production, atmospheric deposition, natural background export) and for the determination of critical loads of reservoirs with nutrients, which are prerequisite for proposing of effective anti-eutrophication measures in reservoirs. An application of this methodology at the drinking water reservoir of Mostiště and its catchment showed that the results are in agreement with alternative methods of catchment nutrient sources assessment, e.g. ratio analysis among land use characteristics and stream water quality and/or direct determination of nutrient export from agricultural land with exclusion of other sources.
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Fishpond management and ecological stability of fishponds -as a key water habitats of the Třeboň region
Pechar, Libor
Fishponds have an important role in the hydrological system of the Třeboň region and generally they represent the most common type of stagnant water habitat in the Czech Republic. Most of the fishponds are several hundred years old, and have therefore lost most of their man-made character. The period of intensification of fish production started in the 1930s, when liming and fertilization of the fishponds became a common practice. Since the 1930s, fish production has increased from a mean of about 50 kg ha-1 to more than 500 kg ha-1. Common carp, Cyprinus carpio L. has been the main cultivated fish species. Management for higher fish stock densities, accompanied by higher nutrient loads result in increasing trophic levels, ultimately reaching a state of 'hypertrophy'. The main symptoms of this state are the massive development of phytoplankton and cyanobacterial ' algal blooms', great fluctuations in oxygen concentrations, pH, which, in turn, destabilise the fish pond ecosystem.
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