Current knowledge of the South East Asian large branchiopod Crustacea (Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida)

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Inland swamps in South East Asia harbour hidden cladoceran diversities: species richness and the description of new paludal Chydoridae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) from Southern Thailand

“…The same is true for other freshwater invertebrate groups in the region (e.g. large branchiopods) (Rogers et al, 2013).…”

Decaying Cyanobacteria decrease N2O emissions related to diversity of intestinal denitrifiers of Chironomus plumosus

“…Previous studies focused primarily on distribution, species richness and function (Covich et al, 1999;Bellini et al, 2013;Korovchinsky, 2013;Rogers et al, 2013;Pérez-Bilbao et al, 2014). However, recently some researchers have confirmed N 2 O emission from benthic invertebrates ranging from predators to filter-and deposit-feeders (Stief et al, 2009;Heisterkamp et al, 2010;Svenningsen et al, 2012;Heisterkamp et al, 2013;Poulsen et al, 2014).…”

Front Matter

“…New taxa in the Copepoda comprise a new subgenus of Tropocyclops Kiefer, 1927, new species in Eucyclops Claus, 1893, Mesocyclops Sars, 1914and Fierscyclops Karanovic, 2004, and a new subspecies in Phyllodiaptomus Kiefer, 1936(Alekseev et al, 2013, Papa and Hołyńska, 2013. In the Cladocera, a new endemic genus with a peculiar ecology is described , new species in the genera Leydigiopsis Sars, 1901, Karualona Dumont and Silva-Briano, 2000and Notoalona Rajapaksa and Fernando, 1987Van Damme and Sinev, 2013), and in the large branchiopods, a new Cyzicus Audouin, 1837 (Rogers et al, 2013). The fact that the latter species was discovered coincidentally in a fish farm during a brief N o n c o m m e r c i a l u s e o n l y excursion in the FISA conference, illustrates how useful basic surveys in the region can be for biodiversity assessments and how far we are from a realistic understanding of the true diversity in the region (Rogers et al, 2013).…”

“…In the Cladocera, a new endemic genus with a peculiar ecology is described , new species in the genera Leydigiopsis Sars, 1901, Karualona Dumont and Silva-Briano, 2000and Notoalona Rajapaksa and Fernando, 1987Van Damme and Sinev, 2013), and in the large branchiopods, a new Cyzicus Audouin, 1837 (Rogers et al, 2013). The fact that the latter species was discovered coincidentally in a fish farm during a brief N o n c o m m e r c i a l u s e o n l y excursion in the FISA conference, illustrates how useful basic surveys in the region can be for biodiversity assessments and how far we are from a realistic understanding of the true diversity in the region (Rogers et al, 2013). Besides descriptions of new taxa, new morphological notes are provided for several poorly known species in need of revision, as well as new checklists, biogeographical notes, new keys and faunistics, in freshwater sponges (Manconi et al, 2013), copepods (Alekseev et al, 2013;Boonyanusith et al, 2013;Papa and Hołyńska, 2013), cladocerans (Kotov et al, 2013;Korovchinksy, 2013;Sinev and Korovchinsky, 2013;Van Damme and Sinev, 2013), large branchiopods (Rogers et al, 2013), stygobionts Brancelj et al, 2013) and rotifers (Trinh Dang et al, 2013;Saardrit et al, 2013).…”

“…Such studies provide a firm basis within each group for researchers to build on, and in several countries taxonomical efforts spur limnological research. For example, with Korovchinsky (2013) and Rogers et al (2013), we now have a complete overview of all crustacean branchiopods known in literature to date in SE Asia and an idea of what needs to be done, and the same can be said for the freshwater sponges (Manconi et al, 2013) and cave faunas . Alekseev et al (2013) provide a key for Eucyclops in SE Asia, and Van and Van Damme and Sinev (2013) provide new worldwide keys for several cladoceran genera.…”