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From Limnology to Fisheries: Lake Tanganyika and Other Large Lakes pp 105–114Cite as

Spatial and temporal changes in copepod zooplankton communities of Lake Tanganyika

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Pelagic Copepoda zooplankton in Lake Tanganyika were sampled over two years at three localities. When the data from both years were pooled, post-naupliar cyclopoids formed 76% of the pelagic post-naupliar Copepoda off Bujumbura, 83% off Kigoma and 62% off Mpulungu. During both sampling years, dry weight biomass of postnaupliar copepod stages decreased at sampling sites in the order Bujumbura>Kigoma>Mpulungu. Cyclopoids off Kigoma showed a clear seasonal pattern with one abundance peak in October/November and another at the end of the wet season in April/May. At other locations, neither cyclopoids nor calanoids showed clear seasonal pattern. Correlation of seasonal biomass was low between the first and second dry seasons, and between the first and second wet seasons in all the sampling localities and in all the zooplankton groups. The yearly mean post-naupliar copepod dry weight biomass was estimated as 3.1 g dw m−2 off Bujumbura, 2.1 g dw m−2 off Kigoma and 1.5 g dw m−2 off Mpulungu.

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  1. Lake Tanganyika Research, FAO-FINNIDA, P.O.Box 90, Kigoma, Tanzania

    H. Kurki

  2. Dept. of Applied Zoology and Veterinary Medicine, University of Kuopio, FIN-70 211, P.O.Box 1627, Kuopio, Finland

    H. Kurki

  3. Archipelago Research Institute, University of Turku, FIN-20014, Turku, Finland

    I. Vuorinen

  4. FAO-Fisheries Department, Lake Tanganyika Research, P.O. Box 55, Mpulungu, Zambia

    E. Bosma

  5. Lake Tanganyika Research, FAO-CRRN, P.O. Box 1250, Bujumbura, Burundi

    D. Bwebwa

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  1. University of Kuopio, P.O.Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland

    Ossi V. Lindqvist

  2. Department of Applied Zoology and Veterinary Science, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, Finland

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  3. Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351, Jyväskylä, Finland

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Kurki, H., Vuorinen, I., Bosma, E., Bwebwa, D. (1999). Spatial and temporal changes in copepod zooplankton communities of Lake Tanganyika. In: Lindqvist, O.V., Mölsä, H., Salonen, K., Sarvala, J. (eds) From Limnology to Fisheries: Lake Tanganyika and Other Large Lakes. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 141. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1622-2_10

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