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JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
Volume 144, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.04.010
Keywords
Wetland; Amu Darya delta; Halotolerance; Uzbekistan; Richness
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- World Bank
- Global Environmental Fund
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Effects of drought-induced salinity changes on aquatic communities are less studied in lentic than in lotic systems. We present changes in zooplankton assemblages from five arid lakes before, during, and after a supra-seasonal drying event in which lake inflow ceased in 2001. We catalogued zooplankton communities in fresh and saline lakes of the Sudochye wetland in Central Asia. During this record low flow period, salinity increased in the lakes. Zooplankton species richness was inversely correlated with salinity. Linear regression using species richness indicated that zooplankton communities in the two least saline lakes were strongly correlated with changes in salinity. Post-drought recovery of species richness suggested resilience to this perturbation. Both saline lakes' zooplankton communities had low correlation with changes in salinity, suggesting greater resistance than the freshwater communities. The fifth lake showed a hybrid response, beginning in the fresh range, but experiencing higher salinities than the other fresh lakes. In the fifth lake species-richness was similarly correlated to changes in salinity as compared to the saline lakes, correlation of % halotolerant species was intermediate between saline and fresh communities, and post-drought species richness was similar to the fresh lakes, which could indicate a resilient recovery of species richness. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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