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Palm house — biodiversity hotspot or risk of invasion? Aquatic invertebrates: The special case of Monogononta (Rotifera) under greenhouse conditions

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Greenhouses form favourable conditions for establishing stable populations of native as well as invasive alien microinvertebrates. Investigations of palm houses have a long tradition and native, alien and new species for science have been found in many of them. The examined pond and some microreservoirs in Bromeliaceae and Agavoideae in Poznań Palm House (Poland) sampled in 2012, appeared to contain representatives of Rotifera (64 species), Copepoda (2 species), Polychaeta, Acari and Insecta larvae. The most abundant Rotifera species were: Anuraeopsis fissa Gosse, 1851, Ascomorpha ecaudis Perty 1850, Euchlanis dilatata Ehrenberg, 1832, Pompholyx sulcata Hudson, 1885 and Trichocerca rousseleti Voight, 1902. Moreover, rotifers considered to be rare in Poland, i.e., Asplanchna herricki De Guerne, 1888, Collotheca pelagica Rousselet, 1893, Colurella sulcata Stenroos, 1898, Gastropus minor Rousselet, 1892 were also detected in Poznań Palm House. Two recorded Copepoda species were Phyllognathopus viguieri (Maupas, 1892) found in agave microreservoirs and Mesocyclops leuckarti (Claus, 1857) found in reservoir with aquatic plants. For biodiversity evaluation of rotifers Margalef’s and Shannon-Wiener’s indexes were used and in order to determine species richness the Simpson index was calculated. Additionally, a complete list of all aquatic invertebrates is presented, i.e., Plathelmintes (11 species), Nemeretea (2 species), Oligochatea (13 taxa), Polychaeta (7 species), Gastrotricha (13 taxa) and Copepoda (1 species) previously recorded in Poznań Palm House. To sum up, Palm houses create a convenient habitat for a prevalence of native and introduced invertebrates and are a putative source of alien species, possibly facilitating their release to the environment.

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We wish to express our sincere thanks to members of the Student Naturalist Society (Invertebrate Section) of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań for their assistance in the collection of samples (Dr. Paweł Szykmowiak, Mrs Agnieszka Kiedrowicz). We also thank Michał Śmiłlowski and the staff of the Poznań Palm House for their kindness and support during the collection of the samples. The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and helpful comments. The research was also supported by the Dean of the Faculty of Biology (AMU) within a project titled “Palm houses in Poland as the biodiversity hotspots and their role in the introduction of the alien species” KZ, MK & MKD, and by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education within project DI 2012 014242, MKD.

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  1. Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland

    Małgorzata Kolicka & Krzysztof Zawierucha

  2. Department of Hydrobiology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland

    Marcin Krzysztof Dziuba

  3. Department of Water Protection, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland

    Natalia Kuczyńska-Kippen

  4. Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81-712, Sopot, Poland

    Lech Kotwicki

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Kolicka, M., Dziuba, M.K., Zawierucha, K. et al. Palm house — biodiversity hotspot or risk of invasion? Aquatic invertebrates: The special case of Monogononta (Rotifera) under greenhouse conditions. Biologia 70, 94–103 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0012

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