Potential and observed submerged species richness for lake groups (Q1.1)

Out of the 900 randomly assigned parameter combinations, 540 can grow under the base environmental conditions. These 540 species build the potential species pool and all following species numbers will be shown as percentage of those. Of these, 28.5% are oligotraphentic, 34.5% mesotraphentic, 37.0% eutraphentic species (Table 2). In comparison, 36 observed species build the empirical species pool, and of these 11.1% are oligotraphentic (N = 4), 55.6% mesotraphentic (N = 20), and 33.3% (N = 12) eutraphentic species.
The comparison between observed and potential species richness within the functional groups and the lake groups are given in Table 2.