Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime Antarctica
Small water bodies like the rock pools are used as a model system for evolutionary and environmental studies with a growing interest. The zooplankton in the rock pools is a most interesting and promising research object. Although the first papers on Antarctic rock pools were published early in the X...
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| description | Small water bodies like the rock pools are used as a model system for evolutionary and environmental studies with a growing interest. The zooplankton in the rock pools is a most interesting and promising research object. Although the first papers on Antarctic rock pools were published early in the XX century, these water bodies have been not investigated in detail and comprehensively. The paper aims to review and systematize the knowledge on the diversity of the freshwater zooplankton of the Maritime Antarctica, South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands. These organisms include meso- and macro- zooplankton (0.2—20 mm) living in the water and unable to propel themselves against a current, 69 taxa in total. The most diverse of them
are 52 taxa of rotifers with 4 taxa identified to the subspecies, 44 — to species, and 4 — to genus level. Crustaceans include 16 taxa (14 identified to the species, 1 — to genus, and 1 — to order); 9 taxa belong to branchiopods, 3 — to ostracods, and 4 — to copepods. One insect species, Parochlus steinenii, is present in the plankton at the larval stage. Summarizing these results, the rock pools of the fairly well studied South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands (41 and 46 taxa, respectively) exhibit diversity of living organisms similar to the comparable waterbodies from other parts of the world, while the rest of the region has a much lower diversity (11 taxa). However, this discrepancy is presumably a research artifact because so far, only a few special
studies have been done in the Maritime Antarctica. For example, at the Argentine Islands three identified taxa only (2 crustaceans and 1 rotifer) are known with a number of rotifers awaiting identification. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1530c05336ef4e5593ce8778950ec44f2022-12-22T03:56:53ZengState Institution National Antarctic Scientific CenterУкраїнський антарктичний журнал1727-74852415-30872022-09-0120111312410.33275/1727-7485.1.2022.694Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime AntarcticaM. Nabokin 0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6542-083XUkrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Odesa, 65009, Ukraine; State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01601, UkraineSmall water bodies like the rock pools are used as a model system for evolutionary and environmental studies with a growing interest. The zooplankton in the rock pools is a most interesting and promising research object. Although the first papers on Antarctic rock pools were published early in the XX century, these water bodies have been not investigated in detail and comprehensively. The paper aims to review and systematize the knowledge on the diversity of the freshwater zooplankton of the Maritime Antarctica, South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands. These organisms include meso- and macro- zooplankton (0.2—20 mm) living in the water and unable to propel themselves against a current, 69 taxa in total. The most diverse of them are 52 taxa of rotifers with 4 taxa identified to the subspecies, 44 — to species, and 4 — to genus level. Crustaceans include 16 taxa (14 identified to the species, 1 — to genus, and 1 — to order); 9 taxa belong to branchiopods, 3 — to ostracods, and 4 — to copepods. One insect species, Parochlus steinenii, is present in the plankton at the larval stage. Summarizing these results, the rock pools of the fairly well studied South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands (41 and 46 taxa, respectively) exhibit diversity of living organisms similar to the comparable waterbodies from other parts of the world, while the rest of the region has a much lower diversity (11 taxa). However, this discrepancy is presumably a research artifact because so far, only a few special studies have been done in the Maritime Antarctica. For example, at the Argentine Islands three identified taxa only (2 crustaceans and 1 rotifer) are known with a number of rotifers awaiting identification.: crustaceameso- and macro- zooplanktonrotifera |
| spellingShingle | M. Nabokin Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime Antarctica Український антарктичний журнал : crustacea meso- and macro- zooplankton rotifera |
| title | Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime Antarctica |
| title_full | Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime Antarctica |
| title_fullStr | Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime Antarctica |
| title_full_unstemmed | Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime Antarctica |
| title_short | Faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of Maritime Antarctica |
| title_sort | faunistic analysis of freshwater zooplankton in small rock pools of maritime antarctica |
| topic | : crustacea meso- and macro- zooplankton rotifera |
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