Diversity and distribution patterns of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in temporary pools (Iran)

Atashbar, Behrooz; Agh, Naser; Stappen, Gilbert Van; Beladjal, Lynda

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.07.005

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“…Branchinecta orientalis inhabits mineral-rich temporary waters and is distributed between 27° and 55°N in Europe and Asia (Mura & Takami, 2000;Padhye, Kulkarni, & Dumont, 2017). Active populations of the species generally occur from March to June but exceptions have also been recorded in late autumn or winter (Atashbar, Agh, Van Stappen, & Beladjal, 2014;Eder, Hödl, & Gottwald, 1997;Petkovski, 1991;Šćiban, Marković, Lukić, & Miličić, 2014).…”

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Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

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1. Omnivory is widespread in food webs, with an important stabilising effect.The strength of omnivorous trophic interactions may change considerably with changes in the local environment.2. Shallow temporary waters are often characterised by high levels of inorganic turbidity that may directly limit the food uptake of filter-feeding organisms, but there is little evidence on how it might affect omnivorous species. Anostracans are key species of temporary waters and recent evidence suggests that these organisms are omnivorous consumers of both phyto-and zooplankton.3. Using Branchinecta orientalis as a model species, our aim was to test how turbidity affects the feeding of an omnivorous anostracan. To do this, we used short-term feeding experiments and stable isotope analyses, with animals collected from soda pans in eastern Austria. In the feeding experiments, algae and zooplankton were offered as food either separately or in combination. The prey type treatments were crossed with turbidity levels in a factorial design.4. There was a pronounced decrease in the ingested algal biomass with increasing turbidity. Conversely, ingestion rates on zooplankton were less affected by turbidity. Stable isotope analyses from field material supported our experimental results by showing a positive relationship of the trophic position of anostracans and the trophic niche of the communities with turbidity. 5. Our results show that turbidity modulates the intraguild trophic relationship between anostracans and their prey by shifting the diet of anostracans from more herbivorous in transparent to more carnivorous in turbid waters. Thus, inorganic turbidity might also have a community-shaping role in plankton communities of temporary waters through altering trophic relationships. K E Y W O R D Sanostracans, phytoplankton, temporary ponds, trophic webs, zooplankton | 227 LUKIĆ et aL.

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Section: Study Species-the Fairy Shrimp Branchinecta Orientalismentioning

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Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

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“…He identified three notostracan species, T. cancriformis simplix in northern Yemen, Lepidurus couesii from Syria and T. numedicus from the central region of the Arabian Peninsula. Golzari et al (2009) recorded T. cancriformis in and T. granarius (Atashbar et al, 2014) in Iran. Both of them confirmed the physicochemical characteristics of the present environment.…”

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“…These animals gained special attention due to their conservation status and because they are treated as flagships of temporary waters. Thus, in many countries all representatives of this group are red listed and protected (Godyn et al, 2012;Atashbar et al, 2014).…”

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The large branchiopod, Triops cancriformis simplex (Gihi, 1921) (Crustacea: Notostraca) in temporary rain pools, recorded for the first time in Taif-KSA

Hassan

2015

The Journal of Basic & Applied Zoology

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The present species Triops cancriformis simplex was not recorded in Taif and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia before. The present work is a confirmatory study to indicate the identity of this species in the ephemeral freshwater bodies in Taif, KSA and to ascertain that, if there is any other Triops species in the same area or not. Four sites were investigated in Taif governorate; Wadi Al-Arj, Saysed, Jabajeb pool and Ghadeer Al-Banat. The animal was not recorded in the first two sites all the year. The specimens were collected from Jabajeb pool on Al-Hada road and Ghadeer Al-Banat at Al-Roddaf region. No specimens were found in these sites during winter and autumn but they start in late spring and summer. One hundred and seven specimens were collected from both sites in this period. The animal was morphologically described to be distinguished from the other large branchiopods species. The supra-anal plate is absent, the dorsal organ of the present species is rounded, second maxilla is present, no supernumerary spines on apodous rings, the carina of T. c. simplex is smooth without spines in front of its terminal spine and presence of small spines on the furca. ª 2015 The Egyptian German Society for Zoology. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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“…List of crustaceans from the National Park of Urmia Lake. [23,24] 1 Locality: Rashakan region; Salinity: 0.1%; 2 Locality: Zanbil and Chichest regions; Salinity: 1.7%-2%; 3 Locality: The lagoon near the Southern part of Urmia Lake/Rashakan region; Salinity: 0.1%.…”

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Update of “Biodiversity of the Hypersaline Urmia Lake National Park (NW Iran)”

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Eimanifar

2016

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Diversity and distribution patterns of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in temporary pools (Iran)

Cited by 14 publications

References 25 publications

Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

The large branchiopod, Triops cancriformis simplex (Gihi, 1921) (Crustacea: Notostraca) in temporary rain pools, recorded for the first time in Taif-KSA

Update of “Biodiversity of the Hypersaline Urmia Lake National Park (NW Iran)”

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