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A study of zooplankton community in Dukan lake, Kurdistan region-Iraq, with a new record of Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester (1880) medusa (Cnidaria : Hydrozoa)
Other Title(s)
دراسة مجتمع الهائمات الحيوانية في بحيرة دوكان، إقليم كوردستان العراق مع تسجيل جديد للنوع Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankestr (1880)
Joint Authors
Ali, Luayy Abd al-Qadir
Zahir, Sarah Faris
Source
Issue
Vol. 14, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.735-741, 7 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Science for Women
Publication Date
2017-12-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
A study of Zooplankton community has been carried out at four selected sites on Dukan Lake.
Samples of water and zooplankton were collected monthly for the period from July 2015 to February 2016.
Some physical and chemical properties of water were studied and the results showed that the air temperature were ranged from 0 to 36.16 °C, water temperature ranged from 2.83 to 34.66 °C, hydrogen ion concentration of studied sites were found to lie in alkaline side, it was ranged between 6.87 to 8.57, electrical conductivity ranged from 190.79 to 850.08 µs.cm¹, turbidity ranged from 0.9-7.7 NTU, and dissolved oxygen from 3.3 to 6.8 mg.l-¹ while BOD5 were ranged from 0.53 to 34.66 mg.l-¹.
Concerning to the zooplankton, 37 species were identified which belonged to Cladocera (48.38%), Copepod (43.28%), Rotifera (8.23%), Targigrada (0.08%) and Cnidaria (0.1%).
The medusa of Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester (1880) was recorded for the first time in Iraq.
Regarding to zooplankton community, rotifer were ranged between 0 to 690.91 ind.m-3, Copepoda from 54.55 to 5927.27 ind.m-3 and Cladocera ranged from 18.18 to 6072.73 ind.m-3.
According to Shanon-Weiner index, species diversity for zooplankton invertebrates was ranged from 0.325 to 1.091 bits/ind.
Jaccard’s similarity index showed that the highest similarity was recorded between site (1) and site (4) with 40.74%.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zahir, Sarah Faris& Ali, Luayy Abd al-Qadir. 2017. A study of zooplankton community in Dukan lake, Kurdistan region-Iraq, with a new record of Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester (1880) medusa (Cnidaria : Hydrozoa). Baghdad Science Journal،Vol. 14, no. 4, pp.735-741.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-796982
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zahir, Sarah Faris& Ali, Luayy Abd al-Qadir. A study of zooplankton community in Dukan lake, Kurdistan region-Iraq, with a new record of Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester (1880) medusa (Cnidaria : Hydrozoa). Baghdad Science Journal Vol. 14, no. 4 (Dec. 2017), pp.735-741.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-796982
American Medical Association (AMA)
Zahir, Sarah Faris& Ali, Luayy Abd al-Qadir. A study of zooplankton community in Dukan lake, Kurdistan region-Iraq, with a new record of Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester (1880) medusa (Cnidaria : Hydrozoa). Baghdad Science Journal. 2017. Vol. 14, no. 4, pp.735-741.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-796982
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 740
Record ID
BIM-796982