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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2013 | Volume: 16 | Issue: 19 | Page No.: 976-983
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2013.976.983

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Javaid Ahmad Shah

Country: India

Ashok K. Pandit

Country: India

Keywords


  • Crustacean
  • correlation
  • bray-curtis analysis
  • diversity
  • Wular lake
Research Article

Relation Between Physico-chemical Limnology and Crustacean Community in Wular Lake of Kashmir Himalaya

Javaid Ahmad Shah and Ashok K. Pandit
The present study scrutinizes the seasonal variation in the distribution of crustacean zooplankton in relation to physico-chemical liminology of Wular lake. Water samples were collected from five study sites during September 2010-August 2011. Remarkable spatial and temporal variations were observed among the different study sites. Among the parameters recorded water temperature showed positive correlation with pH (p<0.01) and orthophosphate (p<0.05).Transparency showed a significant negative correlation with total alkalinity (p<0.01), free carbon dioxide (p<0.01) and ammonical nitrogen (p<0.01). Crustacean zooplankton were collected by filtering 100 L lake water through a 30 μm nytal mesh and preserved in 4% formalin. A total of 42 taxa of crustacean were recorded, among them 23 species belonged to Cladocera, 16 to Copepoda and only 3 to Ostracoda. Species diversity and density depicted an abrupt up surge on the advent of warmer period (extending from March). Among the various sites a maximum of 40 species were recorded from a single biotope (site III) against the minimum of only 17 species being recorded from site I. Bray-Curtis cluster analysis showed close similarity (0.928-0.944%) between summer and autumn in terms of species diversity. Pearson correlation coefficient of the various physico-chemical parameters of water with crustacean zooplankton depicted that not only a single but multiple factors govern over the distribution and diversity of crustacean in the lake.
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Javaid Ahmad Shah and Ashok K. Pandit, 2013. Relation Between Physico-chemical Limnology and Crustacean Community in Wular Lake of Kashmir Himalaya. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 16: 976-983.

DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2013.976.983

URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2013.976.983

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