Abstract
Various water bodies (quarry lakes, dammed lakes, tailings ponds) are part of the technogenic landscape formed as a result of open mineral mining. The main aim of this paper is to study the zooplankton community diversity in reservoirs of anthropogenic origin. Hydrobiological studies of technogenic reservoirs in the mining area of the Southeastern Transbaikalia (Sherlovogorskoye tin-polymetallic, Spokoininskoe tungsten, Zhipkoshinskoe antimony, Malokulundinskoe and Orlovskoe rare-metal deposits) were carried out in June 2021 for the first time. Zooplankton in these water bodies was characterized by low species diversity (63 species in total) and a wide range of variation in quantitative indicators (abundance 5.89–601.44 × 1000 ind./ m3, biomass 19.79–1447.28 mg/m3). The dominant complex of zooplankton communities differed and consisted mainly of species from Rotifera and Copepoda.
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