@article{FrolovaNazarovaPestryakovaetal.2014, author = {Frolova, Larisa and Nazarova, Larisa B. and Pestryakova, Luidmila Agafyevna and Herzschuh, Ulrike}, title = {Subfossil Cladocera from surface sediment in thermokarst lakes in northeastern Siberia, Russia, in relation to limnological and climatic variables}, series = {Journal of paleolimnolog}, volume = {52}, journal = {Journal of paleolimnolog}, number = {1-2}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {0921-2728}, doi = {10.1007/s10933-014-9781-7}, pages = {107 -- 119}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Subfossil Cladocera were sampled and examined from the surface sediments of 35 thermokarst lakes along a temperature gradient crossing the tree line in the Anabar-river basin in northwestern Yakutia, northeastern Siberia. The lakes were distributed through three environmental zones: typical tundra, southern tundra and forest tundra. All lakes were situated within the continuous permafrost zone. Our investigation showed that the cladoceran communities in the lakes of the Anabar region are diverse and abundant, as reflected by taxonomic richness, and high diversity and evenness indices (H = 1.89 +/- A 0.51; I = 0.8 +/- A 0.18). CONISS cluster analysis indicated that the cladoceran communities in the three ecological zones (typical tundra, southern tundra and forest-tundra) differed in their taxonomic composition and structure. Differences in the cladoceran assemblages were related to limnological features and geographical position, vegetation type, climate and water chemistry. The constrained redundancy analysis indicated that T-July, water depth and both sulphate (SO4 (2-)) and silica (Si4+) concentrations significantly (p a parts per thousand currency sign 0.05) explained variance in the cladoceran assemblage. T-July featured the highest percentage (17.4 \%) of explained variance in the distribution of subfossil Cladocera. One of the most significant changes in the structure of the cladoceran communities in the investigated transect was the replacement of closely related species along the latitudinal and vegetation gradient. The results demonstrate the potential for a regional cladoceran-based temperature model for the Arctic regions of Russia, and for and Yakutia in particular.}, language = {en} } @article{FlorianLopezLuqueOspinaAlvarezetal.2016, author = {Florian, Norbert and Lopez-Luque, Raquel and Ospina-Alvarez, Natalia and Hufnagel, Levente and Green, Andy J.}, title = {Influence of a carp invasion on the zooplankton community in Laguna Medina, a Mediterranean shallow lake}, series = {Limnetica}, volume = {35}, journal = {Limnetica}, publisher = {Asociaci{\~A}³n Espan{\~A}µla de Limnolog{\~A}­a}, address = {Mislata (Valencia)}, issn = {0213-8409}, pages = {397 -- 411}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is a highly invasive species and an ecological engineer. It has been repeatedly shown to increase nutrient concentrations and phytoplankton biomass while destroying submerged macrophytes, although there are few studies from the Mediterranean region. We studied its impact on the zooplankton community in Laguna de Medina lake, a shallow lake in Jerez de la Frontera, south-west Spain. Carp were removed with rotenone in 2007 but returned in 2010-2011. We compared zooplankton sampled monthly from 8 points from May to December in 2008 (without carp) and 2012 (with carp). Extensive macrophyte beds present in 2008 were absent in 2012. As expected, chlorophyll-a concentrations, turbidity, total suspended solids and total phosphorus were much higher in 2012. Zooplankton richness decreased from 21 taxa in 2008 to 8 taxa in 2012, accompanied by a decrease in Shannon-Wiener diversity, an increase in Evenness and a change in size distribution with loss of larger taxa. In 2008, the crustaceans were dominated by the macrocladocerans Daphnia magna and Moina brachiata and the large calanoid copepod Arctodiaptomus salinus. In 2012, these three taxa were completely absent and the zooplankton was dominated by the alien cyclopoid Acanthocyclops americanus and the rotifers Brachionus plicatilis and Keratella quadrata. Our results confirm the disappearance of macrocladocera reported by others in mesocosm experiments with carp, and suggest that alien carp facilitate the spread of the alien copepod A. americanus.}, language = {en} }