The database "Abiotic and biotic components of the lake Kandry-Kul ecosystem": general characteristics and its area of application

This article describes the database “Abiotic and biotic components of the lake Kandry-Kul ecosystem”, which contains information about the abiotic parameters of the water column and bottom sediments (physico-chemical properties of water; the concentration of major ions and of biogenic elements in the water; mineralization of water, type of and granulometric composition of the ground) and about biota ecosystem components (bacterio-, phyto-, protozoo and metazooplankton, bacteriobenthos) of the lake Kandry-Kul. The database which was created as a result of the lake ecosystem monitoring in 2010 and 2012 is intended for accounting, storing, systematizing and analytical processing of hydrochemical and hydrobiological data. The format and structure of the database make it possible to supplement it with new information that can be obtained in the course of subsequent studies of the lake ecosystem. On the basis of the data included in the database, one can carry out calculations to determine the type of mineralization, the level of productivity, the biodiversity of the plankton community, and fish feed base. The application fields of the database are scientific and applied researches on long-term monitoring of the lake Kandry-Kul ecosystem in the context of global climate changes in conditions of changing recreational load.