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The Impact of Abiotic Environmental Factors on the Occurrence The impact of abiotic environmental factors on the occurrence, assemblages and diversity of freshwater zooplanktons in lake tanganyika, burundian littoral Lambert Niyoyitungiye, Anirudha Giri, Bhanu Mishra, Devashish Kar To cite this version: Lambert Niyoyitungiye, Anirudha Giri, Bhanu Mishra, Devashish Kar. The impact of abiotic envi- ronmental factors on the occurrence, assemblages and diversity of freshwater zooplanktons in lake tanganyika, burundian littoral. International Journal of Entomology Research, Gupta Publications, 2020, 5 (5), pp.2455-4758. hal-02540891 HAL Id: hal-02540891 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02540891 Submitted on 28 May 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. International Journal of Entomology Research International Journal of Entomology Research ISSN: 2455-4758; Impact Factor: RJIF 5.24 Received: 26-01-2020; Accepted: 27-02-2020; Published: 28-03-2020 www.entomologyjournals.com Volume 5; Issue 2; 2020; Page No. 74-82 The impact of abiotic environmental factors on the occurrence, assemblages and diversity of freshwater zooplanktons in lake tanganyika, burundian littoral Lambert Niyoyitungiye1*, Anirudha Giri2, Bhanu Prakash Mishra3, Devashish Kar4 1-3 Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, Assam State, India 1 Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Faculty of Agronomy and Bio- Engineering, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Po Box.2940, Burundi 4 Department of Environmental Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram State, India Abstract The present study was conducted on Burundian coast of Lake Tanganyika in 4 sampling sites to identify and to estimate the spatial abundance of zooplankton community and to analyze whether physicochemical properties of water influence significantly the occurrence of zooplankton population. During the survey, it has been realized that zooplankton organisms were very few in number and taxonomic diversity and was comprising of 3 orders: Cyclopoida, Calanoida (Copepods) and Cladocera represented by Diaphanosoma. 12species belonging to 4families have been noted from all study sites. The relative diversity index of families revealed that the family Diaptomidae was dominant with 5species (41.7%) followed by family Cyclopidae with 4species (33.3%), then family Sididae with 2species (16.7%) while the Temoridae family was last with a single species (8.3%) The results of species richness and the Cumulative abundance of the sampling sites showed that zooplankton species and density were variable among stations. 11species were identified at Rumonge site comprising 1152 individuals per liter followed by Kajaga and Mvugo sites with same specific richness of 10 species but with different cumulative abundance of 830 and 502 individuals per liter respectively and Nyamugari site was in last position with 8 species comprising 219 individuals per liter. Besides, the results of Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCorA) between the environmental parameters and zooplankton biomass have shown that the abundance and proliferation of some zooplankton species are affected by the physico-chemical parameters concentration by acting as either inhibitors or accelerators for zooplankton species growth. Keywords: zooplankton, environment factors, lake tanganyika 1. Introduction environmental changes such as water temperature, pH, In recent years, coastal ecosystems are influenced by the Conductivity and nutrients (Yakubu et al., 2000) [52] and the highest degrees of Industrialization and anthropogenic distribution and abundance of these organisms in water activities which in turn influence the coastal productivity bodies can provide an useful information on the level of (Rakhesh et al. 2013) [41]. The zooplankton species water pollution and health of the environment where they composition in a water body is the result of the interactions are found (Gajbhiye and Desai, 1981) [26]. Besides its between the abiotic and biotic factors. These factors importance in the food chain and its sensitivity to climate determine the rate of metabolic transformations, the efficacy change, zooplankton is used to assess the impact of global of immune systems and reaction patterns of bodies to change (Drira, 2009) [20] and differing varieties of species, stressors (Kinne, 1964; Roddie et al., 1984) [34, 44]. biomass diversity and wealth of zooplankton groups can be Zooplankton is one of the most important biotic elements used to determine the strength of a biological system. In that impact all functional aspects of aquatic ecosystems and freshwater communities, along with fish, they are the main often functions as important intermediate link in the pelagic food supplement to many other marine species (Walsh, food web, transfer of energy from producer to aquatic 1978) [51]. The potential of zooplankton as a bioindicator carnivores. The presence and distribution of plankton species is high on the grounds that their development and population is depending on multiple factors like climate conveyance are subject to some abiotic (e.g. temperature, change, physicochemical characteristics and biotic factors saltiness, stratification, and pollutants) and biotic parameters (Alexander, 2012; Cottenie et al., 2001; Ahmad et al., 2011; (e.g. limitation of food, predation and competition) Rajagopal et al., 2010; Richardson, 2008) [2, 16, 1, 40, 43]. (Ramchandra et al. 2006) [42]. Many researches are devoted Zooplankton communities are highly subject to physical to find out how changes in the various environmental factors processes in the water column, and thus constitute the affect the zooplankton and what changes can be expected as perfect biological indicators of climate change (Fromentin a result. In recent days, extensive research work has been and Planque, 1996; Beaugrand et al., 2002; 2003; Fernandez undertaken in the field of plankton, specifying as an de Puelles et al., 2004) [24, 10, 9, 23]. The variations in the indicator species of certain environment and adopting this abundance and structure of zooplanktons community are technique for scientific fishing. The description of very sensitive to environmental changes (Harris et al., 2000) zooplankton species of Lake Tanganyika have been made [31] as these organisms respond quickly to a wide range of by Sars (1909) [47], Gurney (1927) [29] and Lindberg (1951) 74 International Journal of Entomology Research http://www.entomologyjournals.com [36] on Copepoda, Harding (1957) [30] on Cladocera, and hence, the present study was aimed to investigate the state Rousselet (1910) [46], Beauchamp (1932) [8] and Gillard of interrelationship between zooplankton assemblages and (1957) [27] on Rotifera. The absence or scarcity of environmental characteristics in Lake Tanganyika. cladocerans and rotirers in the open water and the richness Furthermore, the knowledge about the distribution, of endemic cyclopoids have been noticed to be the abundance and production of zooplanktons of the lake are characteristics of zooplankton in Lake Tanganyika essential for understanding the lake ecosystem. (Cunnington,1920; Lindberg, 1951) [18, 36] and despite this unique character of composition, only a few studies have 2. Materials and Methods been made from an ecological viewpoint. In this context, the 2.1 Study area present study was devoted to identify the most common The water sample for laboratory analyses was carried out at freshwater zooplankton occurring presently in Lake 4 sampling sites (Kajaga, Nyamugari, Rumonge and Tanganyika and to determine whether physicochemical Mvugo) belonging to the Burundian coast. The Table1 and properties significantly impacted zooplankton occurrence, Figure1 show the geographical location of the study areas: Table 1: Geographical location of the study sites Geographical Location Study sites Province Commune Longitude-East Latitude-South Altitude Kajaga Bujumbura Rural Buterere 029° 17’ 56’’ 03° 20’ 55’’ 783 m Nyamugari Bujumbura Rural Kabezi 029° 20’ 24’’ 03° 30’ 27’’ 776 m Rumonge Rumonge Rumonge 029° 26’ 03’’ 03° 58’ 23’’ 767 m Mvugo Makamba Nyanza-Lac 029° 34’ 06’’ 04° 17’ 42’’ 810 m Fig 1: Map of the study area showing sampling sites 2.2 Collection of water samples for physico-chemical in-situ using electrometric method (conductivity meter and analysis pH-meter) while the remaining parameters were determined The field data collection has lasted 3months (January, in Laboratory using the standard methods (APHA, 2005; February and March, 2018). The water sample for Physical Trivedy and Goel, 1986) [4, 50]. The methods adopted for and chemical analyzes was collected in the morning time water quality analysis and the used instruments are listed in using plastic containers. Temperature, Electrical the Table2: conductivity, pH and dissolved oxygen have been measured 75 International Journal of Entomology Research http://www.entomologyjournals.com Table 2: Analytical methods adopted to determine quality of lake water Parameters Methods Equipments Turbiditimeter, Turbidity tube Turbidity (NTU) Turbidity tube method
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