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Article

Planktonic Microcrustacean Community Structure Varies with Trophic Status and Environmental Variables in Tropical Shallow Lakes in Malaysia

by
Wahidah Ahmad Dini Umi
1,
Fatimah Md Yusoff
2,3,*,
Ahmad Zaharin Aris
3,4,
Zati Sharip
5 and
Artem Y. Sinev
6,7
1
Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
2
Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
3
International Institute of Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences (I-AQUAS), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan 71050, Malaysia
4
Department of Environment, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
5
Lake Research Unit, Water Quality and Environment Research Centre, National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM), Seri Kembangan, Selangor 43300, Malaysia
6
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
7
Kazan Federal University, Kremlevskaya 18, 420008 Kazan, Russia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Diversity 2020, 12(9), 322; https://doi.org/10.3390/d12090322
Submission received: 5 July 2020 / Revised: 5 August 2020 / Accepted: 21 August 2020 / Published: 24 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microzooplankton Affecting Lower and Upper Food-Web Dynamics in Changing Aquatic Systems)
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Abstract

A study was conducted to evaluate planktonic microcrustacean species composition, abundance, and diversity in lakes with different trophic status and to determine the relationship between microcrustacean community structure and lake environmental conditions. This study hypothesized that there are correlations between eutrophication levels and microcrustacean community structures in a lake. Three shallow lakes of different trophic status (Sembrong, Putrajaya and Subang lakes) were selected for this study. Two-Way Analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) revealed differences in microcrustacean diversity and density amongst lakes, where the hypereutrophic condition in Sembrong lake resulted in the lowest diversity but the highest density of microcrustaceans. Similarity percentage (SIMPER) analysis identified the discriminator species among lakes where the domination of small-sized microcrustaceans was observed in lakes with high levels of eutrophication; the hypereutrophic Sembrong lake (Ceriodaphnia cornuta, 74.0%); the meso-eutrophic Putrajaya lake (Bosmina longirostris, 46.9%; C. cornuta, 19.4%). Chlorophyll a, total phosphorus and water transparency showed significant roles in the distribution of microcrustaceans. The canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) scores indicated that small-sized C. cornuta and B. longirostris were related to the eutrophic conditions of lakes. This study elucidated that the lake trophic status could be one of the main factors contributing to the community restructuring of microcrustaceans in tropical lakes.
Keywords: cladocerans; copepods; eutrophication; indicator species; water quality; zooplankton cladocerans; copepods; eutrophication; indicator species; water quality; zooplankton
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Umi, W.A.D.; Yusoff, F.M.; Aris, A.Z.; Sharip, Z.; Sinev, A.Y. Planktonic Microcrustacean Community Structure Varies with Trophic Status and Environmental Variables in Tropical Shallow Lakes in Malaysia. Diversity 2020, 12, 322. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12090322

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Umi WAD, Yusoff FM, Aris AZ, Sharip Z, Sinev AY. Planktonic Microcrustacean Community Structure Varies with Trophic Status and Environmental Variables in Tropical Shallow Lakes in Malaysia. Diversity. 2020; 12(9):322. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12090322

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Umi, Wahidah Ahmad Dini, Fatimah Md Yusoff, Ahmad Zaharin Aris, Zati Sharip, and Artem Y. Sinev. 2020. "Planktonic Microcrustacean Community Structure Varies with Trophic Status and Environmental Variables in Tropical Shallow Lakes in Malaysia" Diversity 12, no. 9: 322. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12090322

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Umi, W. A. D., Yusoff, F. M., Aris, A. Z., Sharip, Z., & Sinev, A. Y. (2020). Planktonic Microcrustacean Community Structure Varies with Trophic Status and Environmental Variables in Tropical Shallow Lakes in Malaysia. Diversity, 12(9), 322. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12090322

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