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The present study analyzed the pattern of temporal distribution of planktonic copepods in a recently formed reservoir and investigated whether there were differences in the predominance of species. The animals were collected at six stations in the limnetic zone of the central body and lateral arms of the reservoir with a motorized pump at different depths, from December 1996 through November 1998. Three species of Cyclopidae (Thermocyclops decipiens, Thermocyclops minutus and Mesocyclops longisetus) and one species of Diaptomidae (Notodiaptomus iheringi) were recorded. Adults and young, mainly nauplii, of the cyclopoids were predominant during the entire study period. Calanoids became numerically important after the third month following reservoir formation, in some months becoming approximately as abundant as the cyclopoids. There was succession in the abundance of the species, with T. decipiens predominating in the first six months, N. iheringi at the end of the first year, and T. minutus at the beginning of the second year. The differences in water level in the dry and rainy seasons and the operation of the reservoir affected the dynamics of certain copepod species.
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Bonecker, C.C., Lansac-Tôha, F.A., Velho, L.F.M., Rossa, D.C. (2001). The temporal distribution pattern of copepods in Corumbá Reservoir, State of Goiás, Brazil. In: Lopes, R.M., Reid, J.W., Rocha, C.E.F. (eds) Copepoda: Developments in Ecology, Biology and Systematics. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 156. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47537-5_31
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