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Zooplankton community of Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP) Manipur, India in relation to the physico-chemical variables of the water

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Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP), a floating park in Loktak Lake, Manipur (India) was studied from Winter (WIN) to Post Monsoon (POM) for its zooplankton composition and some selected water parameters. The resultant data were subjected to multivariate techniques–Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). Analyses of water parameters with PCA revealed that the first PC axis (PC1) accounts for maximum variance in the seasonal data, explaining a variability of 91%. The PCA revealed that the seasonal variability in water parameters was due to the wet and dry cycle of seasons and the stations were distinguished on the basis of transparency and turbidity. Zooplankton abundance was dominated by copepods followed by cladocerans. Temporally, abundance of copepods reached a maximum during Post-monsoon (POM) (3 880 ind./L). Spatially, S6 was found to be most abundant of the other stations in zooplankton. Copepodites and nauplii larvae were the major components of zooplankton. The Rotifera were the least abundant among the three zooplankton groups. Brachionus formed the major component of Rotifera zooplankton at all the stations during the study period. In the Cladocera, Macrothrix was present during all the four seasons, while Pleuroxus, Oxyurella, Kurzia and, Diaphanosoma were rare. The CCA shows that maximal temporal variability in zooplankton abundance was explained by temperature and rainfall. ANOVA revealed no significant diff erence in mean zooplankton abundance among the seasons, but there was a statistically significant diff erence among the sites.

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Acknowledgment

The authors are most grateful to the respective Heads of the Dept. of Ecology & Environmental Science, Assam University, Silchar, Assam and the Dept. of Chemistry, Manipur University, Manipur for providing laboratory facilities. The authors are also thankful to the Environment Monitoring, Research and Development Laboratory, Environment and Ecology Offi ce, Govt. of Manipur for providing rainfall data used in this paper. We would also like to thank the fi eld assistants who helped us in our fi eld visits, Mr. Ratan Luwang who helped us in image processing and Mr. Thangjam Gopeshwar for his help in the preparation of map. The fi rst author (A.S.C.S) acknowledges the fi nancial assistance provided by the University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India under the Junior Research Fellowship (JRFNET) scheme.

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  2. Department of Chemistry, Manipur University, Canchipur, Manipur, 795003, India

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Sharma, A., Gupta, S. & Singh, N. Zooplankton community of Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP) Manipur, India in relation to the physico-chemical variables of the water. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 35, 469–480 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-017-5341-0

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