Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences 19(5) 2720-2729 2020 DOI: 10.22092/ijfs.2019.118064 Zooplankton diversity of three dam lakes in Turkey Saler S.1; Selamoglu Z.2* Received: June 2017 Accepted: October 2017 1-Department of Fundamental Science, Faculty of Fisheries, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey 2-Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Nigde Ömer Halisdemir University, Nigde, Turkey *Corresponding author's Email:
[email protected] Keywords: Rotifera, Cladocera, Copepoda, Zooplankton diversity, Dam Lake, Turkey Introduction 2008), Kemer (Tuna, 2009), Sarımsaklı Zooplanktons are a basic link in (Aydın and Ahıska, 2009), Asartepe transformation of energy from (Buyurgan et al., 2010) Hasan Uğurlu, producers to consumers and play a key Suat Uğurlu (Bozkurt and Akın, 2012), role as efficient filter feeders on Sürgü (İpek Alış and Saler, 2013), phytoplankton and as food source for Kalecik (Bulut and Saler, 2013), other invertebrates, fishes and their Beyhan (Bulut and Saler, 2014), larvae. Zooplanktonic organisms are Uzunçayır (Saler et al., 2014), bioindicators of water quality and Hancağız (Saler and Alış, 2015) dam pollution because they are strongly lakes. influenced by environmental changes The present study aimed to identify Downloaded from jifro.ir at 13:10 +0330 on Thursday September 30th 2021 and respond quickly to alternations in the zooplankton species and determine water quality (Sharma et al., 2010; their seasonal composition and diversity Deksne et al., 2011). Some studies have in Tercan, Kuzgun and Demirdöven conducted on the zooplankton of Dam Lakes where no earlier relevant different Turkish dam lakes such as data is available. Kesikköprü (Yiğit, 1998), Cip (Saler and Şen, 2000), Aslantaş (Bozkurt, Materials and methods 2002), Kapulukaya (Kök, 2005), The study was conducted on Tercan, Ömerli (Altunyurt, 2006), Gelingüllü Kuzgun and Demirdöven Dam Lakes.