Regional Pelagic Rotifer Biodiversity in a Tropical Karst Lake District
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Study Site
3. Methods
4. Data Analysis
5. Results
5.1. Species Richness and Composition
5.2. Abundance and Biomass
5.3. Multivariate Analysis
6. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Lake | Abr. | A (ha) | DMAX (m) | DMEAN (m) | DMEAN (m) | Trophic Status |
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Balantetic | BL | 13.6 | 3 | 1.7 | Warm polymictic | Eutrophic |
Chajchaj | CH | 9.2 | 12 | 5.3 | Warm polymictic | Eutrophic |
San Lorenzo | SL | 181.3 | 67 | 11.8 | Warm monomictic | Eutrophic |
Bosque Azul | BA | 52.5 | 58 | 7.1 | Warm monomictic | Eutrophic |
La Encantada | EC | 8.2 | 89 | 27.5 | Warm monomictic | Eutrophic |
Esmeralda | ES | 1.1 | 7 | 3.6 | Warm polymictic | Oligotrophic |
Ensueño | EN | 2.7 | 35 | 21.6 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Agua Tinta | AT | 3.0 | 24 | 14.7 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
San José | SJ | 60.6 | 30 | 10.3 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Montebello | MB | 96.2 | 45 | 12.3 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Cinco Lagos | CL | 23.7 | 162 | 42.5 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Pojoj | PO | 43.7 | 198 | 35.2 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Kichail | KI | 12.5 | 22 | 9.5 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Tziscao | TZ | 306.6 | 86 | 28.9 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Patianú | PA | 3.4 | 26 | 10.8 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Yalalush | YA | 11.5 | 23 | 9.9 | Warm polymictic | Oligotrophic |
Dos Lagos | DL | 5.2 | 42 | 25.2 | Warm monomictic | Oligotrophic |
Phylum Rotifera Cuvier 1798 | Eutrophic | Oligotrophic | Nr. | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BL | CH | SL | BA | EC | ES | EN | AT | SJ | MB | CL | PO | KI | TZ | PA | YA | DL | ||
Subclass Monogononta Plate, 1889 | ||||||||||||||||||
Order Flosculariaceae Harring, 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||
Family Hexarthridae Bartos, 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||
1. Hexarthra intermedia (Wisniewski, 1929) | C/W | C/W | W | C | C | C | 6 | |||||||||||
Family Testudinellidae Harring, 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||
2. Testudinella patina (Hermann, 1783) | C | C | C | 3 | ||||||||||||||
3. Ptygura sp. | C/W | C/W | C | C | C | C | C | C | 8 | |||||||||
Family Trochosphaeridae Harring, 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||
4. Filinia longiseta (Ehrenberg, 1834) | C/W | C/W | C/W | C | C/W | W | C | 7 | ||||||||||
5. F. terminalis (Plate, 1886) | W | C/W | C | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Order Ploima (Hudson and Gosse, 1886) | ||||||||||||||||||
Family Asplanchnidae Eckstein, 1883 | ||||||||||||||||||
6. Asplanchna girodi de Guerne, 1888 | W | W | C | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Family Brachionidae Ehrenberg, 1838 | ||||||||||||||||||
7. Brachionus angularis Gosse, 1851 | C/W | C/W | C | C | C | W | 6 | |||||||||||
8. B. bidentatus Anderson, 1889 | C | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
9. B. calyciflorus species complex Pallas, 1766 | C/W | C/W | W | C | W | W | 6 | |||||||||||
10. B. havanaensis Rousselet, 1911 | C/W | C/W | C | C | C | C | 6 | |||||||||||
11. B. rubens Ehrenberg, 1838 | C | C | 2 | |||||||||||||||
12. Keratella americana Carlin 1943 | C/W | C/W | C/W | C/W | C/W | C/W | C | C/W | C/W | C/W | C/W | C | C/W | 13 | ||||
13. K. cochlearis (Gosse, 1851) | C/W | C/W | C/W | C | 4 | |||||||||||||
14. K. tropica (Apstein, 1907) | C/W | C/W | C/W | C | C/W | 5 | ||||||||||||
15. Plationus patulus (Müller, 1786) | C/W | W | W | 3 | ||||||||||||||
16. Platyias quadricornis (Ehrenberg, 1832) | C | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Family Lecanidae Remane, 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||
17. Lecane bulla (Gosse, 1851) | W | C/W | C | W | C | C | 6 | |||||||||||
18. L. papuana (Murray, 1913) | W | W | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Family Synchaetidae Hudson and Gosse, 1886 | ||||||||||||||||||
19. Polyarthra vulgaris Carlin, 1943 | C/W | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
20. Synchaeta oblonga Ehrenberg, 1831 | C | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Family Trichotriidae Harring, 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||
21. Macrochaetus sp. | W | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
S Subtotal C | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
S Subtotal W | 6 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
S Grand Total | 8 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
Lake | Cold/Dry | Warm/Rainy | |||||
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S | N (ind L−1) | B (µg L−1) | S | N (ind L−1) | B (µg L−1) | ||
Eutrophic | Balantetic | 6 | 120 | 20.82 | 6 | 17 | 0.31 |
Chajchaj | 9 | 538 | 9.23 | 11 | 227 | 1.95 | |
San Lorenzo | 8 | 17 | 0.23 | 10 | 60 | 0.57 | |
Bosque Azul | 8 | 20 | 0.12 | 4 | 26 | 0.43 | |
La Encantada | 7 | 23 | 0.16 | 4 | 3 | 0.07 | |
Oligotrophic | Esmeralda | 1 | <0.1 | <0.01 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.00 |
Ensueño | 4 | 0.2 | <0.01 | 2 | 1.9 | 0.02 | |
Agua Tinta | 2 | 0.2 | <0.01 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.01 | |
San Jose | 1 | 1.4 | 0.04 | 3 | 1.3 | 0.01 | |
Montebello | 2 | 0.1 | <0.01 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.01 | |
Cinco Lagos | 3 | 0.1 | <0.01 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.01 | |
Pojoj | 2 | 0.7 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.2 | <0.01 | |
Kitchail | 6 | 0.7 | 0.04 | 2 | 1.8 | 0.03 | |
Tziscao | 5 | 1.1 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.1 | <0.01 | |
Pataniu | 5 | 1.1 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.00 | |
Yalalush | 0 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.3 | <0.01 | |
Dos Lagos | 3 | 0.3 | <0.01 | 3 | 0.3 | 0.02 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleFernández, Rocío, Javier Alcocer, and Luis A. Oseguera. 2020. "Regional Pelagic Rotifer Biodiversity in a Tropical Karst Lake District" Diversity 12, no. 12: 454. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120454