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INLAND WATER BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 170-177Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S1995082919020032
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Ostracoda; population dynamics; calcium cycle; magnesium cycle; hypersaline lakes; Crimea
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- Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Research, Russian Academy of Sciences [AAAA-A18-118021490093-4]
- Otto Kinne Foundation
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The distribution and population dynamics of Ostracoda and their response to environmental factors have been analyzed in Crimean hypersaline lakes based on data from a long-term monitoring study (2005-2016). Only one representative of this class, Eucypris mareotica (Fischer, 1855), occurs in these lakes. The species was recorded in the Crimean lakes at a maximum salinity of 300 g/L. The frequency of occurrence of this species correlated negatively with salinity. This species reached high abundances in plankton (650000 ind./m(3)), benthos (565000 ind./m(2)), and floating mats of filamentous green algae Cladophora spp. (9900000 ind./kg of wet weight of the mat). Ostracods were shown to reduce the concentration of calcium and magnesium in the water as a result of using these elements for the construction of their shells. The possibility of using the shells of ostracods for paleoclimatic and palaeolimnological reconstructions was discussed.
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