M. Vranovsky et al., THE EFFECT OF ANTHROPOGENIC ACIDIFICATION ON THE HYDROFAUNA OF THE LAKES OF THE WEST TATRA MOUNTAINS (SLOVAKIA), Hydrobiologia, 274(1-3), 1994, pp. 163-170
Fourteen West Tatra lakes were studied, of which one could be consider
ed to be recently anthropogenically acidified and eight others classif
ied as acidification-endangered. In the anthropogenically acidified la
ke, the zooplankton assemblage has been substantially altered (three m
ountain-lake crustacean species have been eliminated). Several littora
l macrobenthic species sensitive to acidification have either been eli
minated from the acidified and acidification-endangered lakes or occur
only sporadically. The effect of acidification has so far not been ob
served on the benthic fauna of the lakes medial which is probably due
to the higher pH below the surface of sediment. In comparison with the
High Tatra, acid depositions have had a less pronounced effect on the
lakes of the West Tatra.