New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Zooplankton of Lake Taupo

D. J. Forsyth

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I. D. McCallum

Ecology Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, P.O. Box 415, Taupo, New Zealand

Abstract Seasonal changes in species composition and abundance of zooplankton in Lake Taupo were measured at three sites each month from August 1974 to January 1976. The normalised data showed no differences in abundance between sites. Crustaceans comprised 50.3% and rotifers 49.7% of the zooplankton. Boeckella propinqua was the most prominent crustacean especially in spring and early summer, whereas the rotifers, dominated by Polyarthra vulgaris and Conochilus coenobasis, appeared in late summer, autumn, and winter.

Keywords Zooplankton, Lake Taupo, Seasonality, Abundance, Crustacea, Rotifera.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1980, 14 (1): 65-69
Received 7 May 1979; revision received 6 September 1979

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