Aquatic ecosystems, especially small lakes, are influenced by numerous global and regional factors, which provide and regulate the production at all levels of any aquatic ecosystem thus affecting them overall. These factors can vary both in parallel and independently creating new combinations and changing the degree of their impact on any ecosystem component. Particular attention should be paid to the risks of climate change-induced transformations of small lake ecosystems. Fluctuations in temperature, precipitation amount, water exchange with the catchment area, including ionic composition variations caused by changes in evaporation conditions can irreversibly transform ecosystems as a whole, and their production characteristics, in particular.In biochemistry terms, Western Siberia is a complicated region consisting of vast areas with low and high natural content of macro-and microelements in the environment. Such sites are located in different natural areas and geomorphological structures; they differ in composition and a number of elements in the food chain. Lakes with different types of hydroecosystems and different chemical composition of water and bottom sediments can be found in the same catchment area. The main objectives of this study are to identify the role of external physical and chemical factors in productivity formation of small lakes ecosystems in the south of Western Siberia as well as to assess the impact of these factors on some ecosystem elements (phytoand zooplankton, macrophytes, benthos) in the light of climate change.
Material and methodsThe explored lakes are along a 700 km southnorth transect latitude from 51°15'N for 56°45'N in the territory of the South of Western Siberia within Altai Krai and the Novosibirsk region. The lakes were