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Annual pattern of zooplankton communities and their environmental response in a subtropical maritime channel system in the northern Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh

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Zooplankton plays an important role in aquatic food webs by fluxing of energy from primary producer to subsequent trophic levels in the food chain. The annual pattern of zooplankton communities and potential environmental drivers were studied in the Kohelia channel, Bangladesh from summer 2014 to spring 2015. Samples were collected using net at a depth of 1 m. A total of 32 species belonged to 18 orders, 27 families and 15 taxonomic groups were identified. Of these species, 22 distributed in all four seasons of which 8 were dominant and highly contributing to the total communities. Species number peaked in summer next to winter and fall in spring while maximum abundance was in summer and minimum in spring. Multivariate analyses showed that there was a clear annual pattern in the zooplankton communities. Species diversity and evenness peaked in spring but fall in autumn while the high value of species richness was found in winter. Biological-environmental best matching (BIO-ENV) analyses conformed that community pattern of zooplankton was mainly driven by transparency salinity, and temperature individually or combined with water nutrients. These results demonstrate that annual pattern of the zooplankton community shaped by channel environmental factors in subtropical channel ecosystems, thus might be used for community-based subtropical coastal water bioassessment.

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Acknowledgements

A special thank goes to Md. Khurshid Alam Bhuiyan for illustrating the study area map, Dev Mallick for helping spss data analysis, and Xu Guangjian for helping PRIMER data analysis. The authors are pleased to Zheng Wang, and Gao Yangyang for reviewing the earliest version of the manuscript and creative comments which helped to improve the manuscript significantly, and financial support provided by Bangladesh Nature (BNF) is highly acknowledged.

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  1. Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China

    Mamun Abdullah Al & Henglong Xu

  2. Faculty of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, 4331, Bangladesh

    Mamun Abdullah Al, Md. Didarul Alam, Aysha Akhtar, Md. Shafiqul Islam, M Muslem Uddin & Md. Wahidul Alam

  3. Department of Animal Science and Fishery, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia Campus Bintulu, Bintulu, 97008, Sarawak, Malaysia

    Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal

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Foundation item: The Bangladesh Nature Foundation (BNF), Cox’s Bazar (a Non-Governmental Organization); Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC No. 2016GXY030) under Ministry of Eudcation for Excellent Master’s Scholarship Awards.

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Abdullah Al, M., Alam, M.D., Akhtar, A. et al. Annual pattern of zooplankton communities and their environmental response in a subtropical maritime channel system in the northern Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 37, 65–73 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-018-1184-6

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