Karamik Lake (Afyonkarahisar) Hydrodroma despiciens type (Acari hydrachnidia) effect on heavy metals

This thesis was conducted to examine the effects of heavy metal salts on the Hydrodroma despiciens which is a common water mite species collected from Karamık Lake (Çay/Afyonkarahisar). Heavy metals are among the most harmful environmental pollutants. Harmful effect varies depending on the kinds of metal, on species and metal concentration. It was used lead, nickel, copper, cadmium and mercury nitrate salts as the heavy metal in our study. An equal number of samples were placed into separate aquariums to study each metal salt. Increasing concentrations of heavy metal nitrate salts were added periodically into the aquariums. The sample results for each metal were measured with ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma-optical Emission Spectroscopy ICP-OES; Spectro Genesis, Germany) and compared with the control group. According to the obtained results of the analysis; very low concentrations of Hg had the most severe negative impact while high concentrations of Ni appeared to have the least negative impact.