Zooplankton Community Distribution and Food Web Structure in Small Reservoirs: Influence of Land Uses around Reservoirs and Kittoral Aquatic Plant on Zooplankton

We collected zooplankton from May to October, 2011, with the aim of understandingthe zooplankton community distribution and food web interaction between the openwater and littoral (aquatic plants) zones in two small reservoirs with different landcovers(Sobudang, Myeongdong). Small-sized reservoirs are more abundant in SouthKorea, and a total of 51 and 65 species of zooplankton were identified at the twosmall reservoir (Sobudang and Myeongdong), where zooplankton densities weremore abundant in the littoral zone than in the open water zone. Cladocerans andcopepods densities were also higher in the littoral zone, in contrast, rotifers showedhigher densities in the open water zone (t-test