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Table 2 Zooplankton succession in Lake Datong

From: Effects of aquaculture on the shallow lake aquatic ecological environment of Lake Datong, China

Years

Number of species

Abundance and biomass

Dominant species

References

1960 Winter

 

371 ind/L

Calanoida: 84%

[53]

1997

45 genus

2930 ind/L

Rotifers, Protozoa

[54]

2005 Spring

13 genus

2,205,000 ind/L;

4.400 mg/L

Brachinous urceus, Daphnia pulex and Sinocalanus sinensis

[55]

2011 Summer

21 species

89,307 ind/L

Rotifers

[57]

2011–2012

 

8000–125,000 ind/L

Protozoa

[58]

2013–2014

20 genus, 46 species

1013 ± 198 ind/L; 5.12 ± 1.61 mg/L

Tintinnopsis sinensis, Brachionus diversicornis, Asplanchna priodonta, Polyarthra trigla, Filinia longiseta, Bosmina longirostris, Cyclops strenuus

[59]

2019 Summer

3 phylum, 15 order, 34 family, 60 genus, 106 species

Micro-zooplankton: 31 ind/L; 912.91 mg/L; meso- and macro-zooplankton: 19,870 ind/L;5.471 mg/L

Copepods: Nauplii, Microcyclops varicans, Limnoithona sinensis, Cyclops strenuus, Thermocyclops hyalinus, Tropocyclops prasinus prasinus, Psammophilocyclops trispinosus; Cladocera: Bosmina longirostris, Bosminopsis deitersi, Ceriodaphnia quadrangula, Bosmina coregoni, Diaphanosoma leuchtenbergianum, Moina micrura, Diaphanosoma brachyurum, Bosmina fatalis Burckhardt. Protozoa: Strombidium viride, Halteria grandinella, Pleurimema cornatum, Pyxidicula operculata, Arcella arenaria, Pseudodifflugia gracilis, Difflugia urceolata, Acanthocystis turfacea. Rotifers: Trichocerca pusilla, Asplanchna brightwelli, Polyarthra euryptera

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