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Life cycle of Boeckella poppei Mrazek and Branchinecta gaini Daday (King george Island, South Shetlands)
In: Polar Biology. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg. ISSN 0722-4060; e-ISSN 1432-2056, meer
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Boeckella poppei (Mrázek, 1901) [WoRMS]; Branchinecta gaini Daday, 1910 [WoRMS]
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Boeckella poppei; Branchinecta gaini; environmental factors; freshwaterlake; Antarctica; life cycles |
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- Pociecha, A.
- Dumont, H.J., meer
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In Lake Wujka, a shallow, polymictic Antarctic lake situated at 15 m from the seashore, several yearly cohorts occur of the copepod Boeckella poppei and one of the fairy shrimp Branchinecta gaini. There is circumstantial evidence that the two species compete for food, and perhaps adult fairy shrimp feed on the nauplii of the copepod. Both species are positively influenced by a measure of salinity. However, when autumn storms massively sweep seawater into the lake, all fairy shrimp are wiped out; no hatching occurs until next spring. In B. poppei, some nauplii and copepodites survive or hatch after the salt flows out of the lake. This is an advantage to the copepod that may balance its coexistence with the shrimp. Its cycle is, however, aborted by the freezing of the lake. In contrast to many other Antarctic lakes, the life cycle of the crustaceans is therefore controlled by salinity rather than freezing. |
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