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Differential response of invasive malacostracan species to lake level fluctuations

Hydrobiologia volume 590, pages 65–74 (2007)Cite this article

Abstract

The water level of Lake Balaton (a large, shallow lake) was extremely low in 2003, after a dry period of several years. Due to the intensive precipitation in 2004, a regeneration period commenced. Stones of the littoral zone were sampled near the water surface and from the lake bottom four times in both years at four sampling stations. Malacostraca in the encrustation of the stones were represented by Ponto-Caspian immigrants: the invasive amphipods Chelicorophium curvispinum and Dikerogammarus spp. (D. haemobaphes and D. villosus), the mysid Limnomysis benedeni and the isopod Jaera istri. The amphipods dominated in both years. Species of the amphipod genus Dikerogammarus were relatively less abundant than the amphipod C. curvispinum in the regeneration period as compared to the drought period of 2003. Maximal density of Malacostraca (ind. m−2 stone surface) was 69,953 in 2003 and 82,465 in 2004. Vertical stratification of animal numbers and specific taxa occurred in May 2003 and throughout the year in 2004, with some exceptions. Many more Malacostraca individuals were recorded at the lake bottom than near the water surface.

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Acknowledgements

This study was financially supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA No T034813 and No T042622), Balaton Project of Hungarian Academy of Sciences BALÖKO (3B-022-04). The present publication is partly the result of research cooperation supported by Deputy Under-Secretariat of Science and Development of Ministry of Education (Hungary) and its contractual partner, EGIDE (France), in the scope of Hungarian-French Intergovernmental scientific and technological cooperation (F-31/2003). The authors sincerely thank two anonymous referees for the critical review of the manuscript. Prof. Dr. Anthony R. Russo (University of Hawaii) corrected the English, for which we are very grateful. Litkey Zsolt as diver, Tünde Polgárdiné Klein, Zsuzsa Zámbóné Doma helped with the sampling and in the laboratory. All financial supports and technical help are highly acknowledged.

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  1. Balaton Limnological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tihany, 8237, Hungary

    Ilona B. Muskó & Csilla Balogh

  2. Institute of Limnology, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, 8200, Hungary

    Csilla Balogh

  3. Institute of Applied Ecology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary

    Ádám Péter Tóth, Éva Varga & Gyula Lakatos

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Muskó, I.B., Balogh, C., Tóth, Á.P. et al. Differential response of invasive malacostracan species to lake level fluctuations. Hydrobiologia 590, 65–74 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0758-7

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Keywords

  • Invasive Amphipoda
  • Mysidacea
  • Isopoda
  • Lake Balaton
  • Drought