Open AccessPOTENTIAL SHIFT IN ZOOPLANKTON DIVERSITY DURING LATE WINTER IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Author(s) -
Mohammed Jawad Salih Al-Haidarey,
R. M. Abdul-Jabbar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1660/1/012082
Subject(s) - zooplankton , mesocosm , environmental science , biodiversity , ecosystem , biomass (ecology) , trophic level , climate change , oceanography , chlorophyll a , community structure , ecology , lake ecosystem , fishery , biology , geology , botany
Climate changes have large impacts on zooplankton community stricture specially temperature that can reduce in biomass of zooplankton and that consider the link between primary producers and upper trophic levels and important to regulation of aquatic ecosystems. In this study we tested the effects of climate changes specially temperature on zooplankton biodiversity and community structure, also tested some environmental factors (pH, dissolved oxygen, PO4, NO3, and DIC) and chlorophyll-a in mesocosm experiment included 16 enclosures which filled with water, aquatic plants and sediment were extracted from the bottom of water pool with heating system for 8 enclosure. This study concluded that elevation temperature could change zooplankton biodiversity and community structure, early flowering plants, pH raising, increase in the chlorophyll-a, decline in PO4 and DIC concentrations.