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Crustacean plankton community (Crustacea: Copepoda and Cladocera) in gypsum karst lakes and their relation to abiotic parameters

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Two gypsum karst lakes and one non-gypsum karst lake were studied for copepod and cladoceran species composition in relation to specific habitat characteristics. The investigation was conducted from March to June 2007. Four copepod and six cladoceran species were recorded. Gypsum karst lakes are characterized as sulphate lakes and they show significant differences from non-gypsum karst lakes in conductivity, TDS, alkalinity, calcium and sulphates. Data on environmental variables and zooplankton were analyzed using redundancy analysis (RDA). The model explained 65.73% of the variance of the crustacean zooplankton and environmental data by the first two axes. The analysis confirmed that the major environmental variables influencing zooplankton in gypsum karst lakes are conductivity, TDS, calcium and sulphates. In the non-gypsum karst lake, on the contrary, the major variables were oxygen concentration and alkalinity. Specific habitat characteristics of gypsum karst lakes influence the zooplankton community by reducing the number of species and leading to the dominance of one of them.

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This manuscript has been greatly improved by comments from Ana Previšić, University of Zagreb. We also thank to three unknown reviewers for making this manuscript better with their detailed comments and suggestions. The investigation was supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science Education and Sports (grants No. 022-0222148-2137 and 119-1193080-3076) and “Knauf” d.o.o.

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  1. Central Water Management Laboratory, Hrvatske vode, Ulica grada Vukovara 220, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Igor Stanković

  2. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ivančica Ternjej, Zlatko Mihaljević & Mladen Kerovec

  3. Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 19, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Lidija Furač

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Stanković, I., Ternjej, I., Mihaljević, Z. et al. Crustacean plankton community (Crustacea: Copepoda and Cladocera) in gypsum karst lakes and their relation to abiotic parameters. Hydrobiologia 666, 145–153 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0098-x

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