1)
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and
Melosíra italica, and
Keratella cochlearis and
Trichocera dixon-nuttalli are the most abundant forms respectively of 26 species of phytoplanktons and of 19 species of zooplanktons found in the water of Lake Shirakaba during the summer of 1969. They occupy about 9095 % of total number of cells or individuals per unit volume of water. They live most densely in the surface water above 2 m. depth. And
Microcystis aeruginosa and
Anabaena sp. are present as well though the populations are by no means large.
2) Plankters peculier to cold water lakes seemed to predominate during the early years of the inundation.
Holopedium gibberum was the most abundant. Recently species such as
Vitreoscilla, Microcystis, Anabaena, Melosira, Asterionella, Golenkinia, Micractinium, Dictyosphaerium, Ciliates, Rotifers, and
Bosmina have appeared in gradually increasing quantity.
3) The plankton chlorophyll is the largest in amount in the upper layer of 0.5-2m. depth maintaining 21 mg/m
3 of water, from which the standing crop of the phytoplanktons is estimated about 1.8 g (dry wt.) /m
3. The total quantity of seston is about 5 g/m
3 in the same layer, the phytoplanktons constituting about 35% of the entire seston. The photosynthetic activity of the surface water amounts to 16.0 O
2mg/chl. a. mg/hr.
4) Lake Shirakaba is much poorer in the plankton crops than lake Suwa which lies not far from the former and is famous for its conspicuous eutrophication.
5) The standing crops of floating and Coli-group bacteria and of fungi are very large. The biomass of the floating bacteria is about 0.8-1.5g (wet wt.) /m
3. The velosity of production about 0.6-1.6 g/m
3·day, and the decomposition and production attain about to 1.42 mg O
2/1. day respectively. These figures are quite comparable with those of eutrophic lakes and fishponds of Nagano Prefecture where the present lake exists.
6) The bottom animals are poor in number, Chironomid larvae being about 300-700 and Tubificids less than 30.
7) Tthe benthic communities of the incoming streams of the lake are characterized by the inhabitants of the mountain streams such as
Planaria, Asellus, Perissopeura, Rheotanyt-arsus, Uenoa, Simulium and
Baetis, and algae such as
Diatoma, Homoeothrix, and
Navicula.
8) Originally riverine fish population composed of cold water endemic species such as
Salvelinus pluvius, Oncorhynchus rhodurus and
Cottus pollux disappeard soon after impoundment, and the fishes such as
Cyprinus caprio, Carassius carassius, Pseudorasbora parva and
Hypomesus olidus are now flourishing. But they can not live in the deeper water than 3 m. owing to the lack of oxygen.
9) It may be judged also from the standpoints of the biological phenomena that the lake is gradually becoming eutrophicated.
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