Experimental assessment of the predatory pressure effect of gammarids on the structure of the macrozoobenthic community (Communicated by Academician Mikhail E. Nikiforov)
https://doi.org/10.29235/1561-8323-2020-64-4-441-447
Abstract
Alien amphipods were found in Belarus in the early 2000s. During long-term observations of the macrozoobenthic community in the rivers, a decrease of native amphipods was revealed in the southern part of Belarus. Several laboratory experiments were conducted to reveal the predatory effects of four alien species (Dikerogammarus haemobaphes (Eichwald, 1841), Echinogammarus ischnus (Stebbing, 1898), Obesogammarus crassus (Sars, 1894), Obesogammarus obesus (Sars, 1896) on some macrozoobenthic groups. D. haemobaphes has a maximum predation rate and a broad food spectrum in comparison with other studied species. The above-mentioned data can be one of the reasons of wide spreading and very abandoned populations of D. haemobaphes in various rivers in Belarus.
Supporting agencies: This study was conducted in the frame of Topic 24 of the Government Program “Nature Management and Ecology”, Chapter “Biodiversity, bioresources, ecology”, Task 2.05. We are grateful to Corresponding Member V. P. Semenchenko (Head of the Laboratory of Hydrobiology, Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) for valuable advice during the experiments conducting and writing the article.
About the Authors
T. P. Lipinskaya
Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus
Lipinskaya Tatsiana P. - Ph. D. (Biology), Leading researcher, Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources.
27, Akademicheskaya Str., 220072, Minsk.
A. I. Makarenko
Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus
Makarenko Andrey I. - Ph. D. (Biology), Researcher, Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources.
27, Akademicheskaya Str., 220072, Minsk.
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