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Crustacean zooplankton species richness and associations in reservoirs and ponds of Aguascalientes State, Mexico

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We report the species of crustacean zooplankton found in 19 resevoirs and ponds that were sampled at on at least two occasions in Aguascalientes State, Mexico, at a latitude of about 21°30′ North Latitude. We collected a total of 33 cladoceran taxa, 15 calanoid and cyclopoid copepods, an Ergasilus copepod, 2 anostracans, one notostracan species and an amphipod. All these taxa had previously been reported in Mexico. As in more temperate areas, there was a significant correlation between the species richness and lake size. The species-area relationship for Aguascalientes was indistinguishable from that of more northerly lakes. The two most common associations of zooplankton species were (1) those small species that occurred with fish: Daphnia parvula, Diaphanosoma birgei, Leptodiaptomus siciloides, Mastigodiaptomus albuquerquensis, and Thermocyclops inversus, and (2) the large Daphnia schodleri that occurred with the predator Notonecta, in the absence of fish. With minor variations, these two associations also occur throughout temperate North America.

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Dodson, S.I., Silva-Briano, D. Crustacean zooplankton species richness and associations in reservoirs and ponds of Aguascalientes State, Mexico. Hydrobiologia 325, 163–172 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00028277

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