One of the most intriguing and still rather mysterious water ecosystems are small mid-field ponds. Relatively little attention is devoted to representatives of ichthyofauna inhabiting them. The purpose of this work was the evaluation of the species and quantitative composition of the fish inhabiting several selected mid-field ponds (five), and the analysis of habitat conditions and the possibility of utilising small countryside ponds for angling purposes. Overall, 203 fish belonging to eight species were caught. The highest number was recorded in the pond No. 5 (84 specimens), and the lowest number was recorded in the pond No. 3 (18 specimens), where all the fish belonged to one species - Carassius auratus gibelio. No fish habitation was detected in the pond No. 1.The highest dominance index (Di) was achieved by Perca fluviatilis (33.5%) and Carassius carassius (17.73%), whereas the lowest index belonged to Scardinius erythrophtalmus (2.46%) and Blicca bjoerkna (5.42%). The comparison of constancy index values (Ci) indicates that as many as six fish species out of eight demonstrated high constancy of 60%, whereas two fish species (Blicca bjoerkna and Scardinius erythrophtalmus) reached a low level of constancy amounting to 20%. The studied ponds predominantly featured good or very good conditions ...
Amphibian survey conducted in 2010-2012 in two mid-field ponds in the village of Stare Czarnowo, in the north-western part of Poland. The aim of the study was to evaluate the species composition and abundance of adult and juvenile amphibians and their breeding sites. It was found that in both ponds dominated brown frogs: especially Rana arvalis and green frogs: Pelophylax esculentus, Pelophylax lessonae. We meet them not only during the mating season, but throughout the study period also in adjacent agricultural fields and coastline. Less numerous in this area occurred: Hyla arboreta and Bombina bombina. The rarest representative of batrachofauna was Pelobates fuscus, which appeared only in one pond in 2012. In both ponds were recorded occurrence of a representative of the tailed amphibians: Lissotriton vulgaris. Numerous occurrence of amphibians in these mid-field ponds is a good sign, because batrachofauna is an excellent bioindicator aquatic environment. ...
