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Zooplankton community distribution in shallow reservoirs during winter: Influence of environmental factors on Cyclops vicinus (Copepoda: Cyclopoida)

  • Choi, Jong-Yun;Jeong, Kwang-Seuk;Joo, Gea-Jae
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2014
  • We estimated the influence of environmental factors on zooplankton communities at 25 reservoirs during winter (December 2010 to January 2011). Among zooplankton groups, Cyclops vicinus is more dominant during winter, and this is positively related to withered vegetation area and dissolved oxygen level. Therefore, the presence of withered vegetation might be considered as an important factor to determine C. vicinus distribution during winter. We considered that withered vegetation might be utilized as a habitat for C. vicinus, as well as provide an attachment substrate for periphytic algae. Abundance of periphytic algae can lead to high concentration of dissolved oxygen. Although copepods prefer high water temperatures for increasing their population growth, if Cyclops can overcome low temperature stress that leads to disruption of population, their population growth initiation in the next growing season (i.e. next spring) is possibly propelled by the winter population.

Systematic Account on Three Freshwater Cyclopoid Copepods from Korea

  • Lee, Ji-Min;Jeon, Jin-Mo;Chang, Cheon-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Health Society Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.151-154
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    • 2004
  • 1신종을 포함하여 3종의 담수산 검물벼룩이 한국의 동물상에 추가된다: Ochridacyclops coreensis n. sp, Itocyclops yezoensis (Ito, 1954), Cyclops kikuchii Smirnov. 1932. Ochridacyclops속과 Itocyclops속은 한국에서 처음으로 기록되는 속이다. 과거에 Cyclops vicinus Uljanin으로 보고되었던 참검물벼룩은 Cyclops kikuchii의 오동정이었기에 정정한다. 본 발표에서는 신종을 기재하고, 위의 3종에 대하여 근연종과의 형태적 형질 비교 및 종내 변이성 등에 관한 분류학적 고찰을 수행하고자 한다.

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Isotopic Differences among Zooplankton Taxa and Seasonal Variation of Zooplankton Community Coexisting with Microcystis (Microcystis와 공존하는 동물플랑크톤 군집의 계절변화 및 안정동위원소비의 차이)

  • Lee, Jae-Yong;Kim, Jai-Iu;Jung, Yu-Kyong;Kim, Bom-Chul
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2010
  • We used stable isotope analysis to investigate the hypothesis that zooplankton were not able to utilize Microcystis as a food source. We also studied seasonal variation of the zooplankton community in a eutrophic Wangsong reservoir. The dominant copepod species changed from Cyclops vicinus to Thermocyclops taihokuensis. Density of zooplankton was suppressed by high density of Microcystis in June and the density of phytoplankton and chlorophyll a concentration was lowest in July. The difference in $\delta^{13}C$ and $\delta^{15}N$ between cladocerans (Daphnia galeata and Bosmina longirostris) and copepods showed the maximum difference of $12^{\circ}/_{\circ\circ}$ and $4^{\circ}/_{\circ\circ}$, respectively, indicating different energy sources and trophic positions between two taxonomic groups. The difference in $\delta^{13}C$ between Microcystis and zooplankton ranged from $3{\sim}7^{\circ}/_{\circ\circ}$, supporting the hypothesis that Microcystis could not be used as food source of zooplankton.

진도의 담수산 물벼룩류와 요각류의 출현특성에 관한 생태학적 연구

  • Yoon, Seong-Myeong;Chang, Cheon-Young;Kim, Won
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.39-64
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    • 1995
  • A faunistic and ecological study on the occurrence of freshwater cladocerans and copepods was accomplished from Chindo, South Korea. Collections were made from total 35 stations, comprising the various freshwater habitats like reservoirs, streams, swamps, bogs, ricefields, ditch, pond, and spring during the periods of July 23-25, and November 1-3 in 1994. Twenty seven cladoceran species of 17 genera of 6 families in 2 orders, and 28 copepod species of 21 genera of 6 families in 3 orders were collected during this research period, of which Daphnia obtusa Kurz and Elaphoidella bidens (Schmeil) are newly recorded from Korea. In reservoirs, Diaphanosoma sp. and Thermocyclops taihokuensis were dominant in July, and then succeeded by Bosmina longirostris and Cyclops vicinus vicinus in November. Thermocyclops crassus co-occurred with 7: taihokuensis at both seasons, was frequent in November after T. taihokuensis precipitately decreased. In other stagnant waters, 7: taihokuensis and Moina weismanni were dominant at ponds in July and in November, respectively. At ricefields in July Moina macrocopa and T. taihokuensis were dominant, but in November M. macrocopa and Paracyclops fimbriatus were. At streams, cladocerans were relatively rare, but became more rich in November. The representative cladoceran species were Bosmina longirostris as a plankton, and Chydorus sphaericus as a epibenthic species. Concerning copepods, nearly all the stations of streams except a few ones adjacent to seashore showed the similiar species constitutions, of which E. serrulatus and M, pehpeiensis were most frequent and abundant. At a mountain streamlet and a spring, the occurrence of Alona sp., Attheyella byblis Chang and Kim, 1992 and A. tetraspinosa Chang, 1993 is quite interesting and deserved much attention in the taxonomical point of view. Seventeen major cladocerans and copepods from lentic habitats and 13 major cladocerans and copepods from lotic habitatats were clustered using average taxonomic distance and UPGMA to infer the co-occurrence relations among species. As for lentic habitats, two large phena were appeared at first. The one phenon consisted of Diaphanosoma sp. and T taihokuensis, and showed its predominancy over the various habitats and its dominancy was rapidly decreased in November. The other phenon frequently occurred rather in November, and subdivided into three subgroups. On the other hand, as for lotic habitats, 13 species were also grouped into 2 large phena. The first one comprised 4 species, which were dominant and highly frequent at nearly all the lotic habitats, and subdivided into three subgroups according to their seasonal fluctuation types. The second one was also subdivided into three phena, the first of which comprised only one species, Microcyclops varicans, and occurred at most of the stations along stream with steadiness through the research period; the second phenon, Chydorus sphaericus, occurred much frequently in November; the last phenon included a few heterogenous subgroups.

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