The aquatic oligochaetes (Annelida: Clitellata) of eight lakes in the Aşği Firat River Basin (Lower Euphrates, Turkey)

Seval Aras; Özlem Fındik

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The aquatic oligochaetes (Annelida: Clitellata) of eight lakes in the Aşği Firat River Basin (Lower Euphrates, Turkey)

Seval Aras and Özlem Fındik

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The Aşağ Fırat River is located in the south-eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The water quality of the Aşağ Fırat River basin has been degrading for some time, primarily as the result of pollutants associated with the discharges from numerous domestic and agricultural point sources. Aquatic macroinvertebrate samples were collected from eight lakes conducted by using both hand-nets and an Ekman-Birge grab sampler during the summer and autumn of 2014, focusing on the species composition and distribution of aquatic oligochaetes in eight lakes of the Aşağ Fırat River basin, and their relationships with physico-chemical parameters measured in those lakes using Principal Component Analysis. Results of analyses of all identified benthic macroinvertebrates clearly indicate the percent dominance of oligochaetes in benthic samples in the eight dam lakes that were sampled: Hacıhıdır lake (62.9%); Atatürk lake (49.6%); Üçöz lake (28.9%); Dumluca lake (22.01%); Seve lake (13.9%); Çat lake (8.5%); Karakaya lake (7.8%) and Birecik lake (5%). During this study, 1044 oligochaete specimens representing 10 species of two subfamilies within the family Naididae were identified. The most abundant taxa were Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri (48.94%), Potamothrix hammoniensis (19.3%), Tubifex tubifex (13.1%), Nais simplex (5.2%) and Nais communis (4.1%).

Key words: Oligochaeta; Aşağ Fırat River basin; Turkey; lake; reservoir

The paper was presented at the 13^th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, Brno, Czech Republic, 7–11 September, 2015

Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Ministry of Forestry and Water Management project [‘The establishment of our country Specific Water Quality Ecological Assessment System’]. We are grateful to the Ministry of Forestry and Water Management (Turkey) and DOKAY-ÇED Environmental Engineering Ltd. Co. (Turkey). The research summarized in this paper was presented during the 13th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta (ISAO13), convened in Brno, Czech Republic, 7-11 September 2015. We are deeply grateful to Jana Schenková (Masaryk University, Brno) and the organizers of this symposium for their support. Finally, we greatly appreciate the editorial assistance on earlier versions of this paper from Mark J. Wetzel (Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA) and Tarmo Timm (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Limnology, Rannu, Tartumaa, Estonia).

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Received: 2015-10-16

Accepted: 2015-12-10

Published Online: 2016-2-25

Published in Print: 2016-1-1

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Oligochaeta; Aşağ Fırat River basin; Turkey; lake; reservoir