Dinâmica zooplanctônica em um reservatório profundo do semiárido brasileiro: influência da comunidade fitoplanctônica, do clima e da sazonalidade

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Ana Carolina Brito
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Zoologia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Limnologia; Plâncton; Ciclo hidrológico; Limnology; Plankton; Hydrological cycle; CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ZOOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9717

Zooplankton dynamics on a deep reservoir of Brazilian semiarid region: influence of weather, water quality an phytoplankton community. The semiarid region around the world are characterized by low rainfall, high temperatures throughout the year followed by long periods of drought, making them often temporary; it directly affects the quality of water and hence the diversity and abundance of organisms. Several aquatic systems in the semiarid region especially in Brazil, are shallow and so the planktonic studies were conducted at these sites. Thus, the present study aimed to analyze the dynamics of zooplankton in a deep dam in the northeastern semi-arid, and to observe the influence of environmental variables, phytoplankton community and seasonal climate on it. This study was conducted in four parts: the first was about the relationship between phytoplankton and zooplankton over two hydrological cycles. There was a predominance of cyanobacteria over all other phytoplankton groups, which resulted in low diversity zooplankton of the dam; rotifers were the most diverse and most abundant species during the rainy season; copepods were recorded throughout the collections in special juvenile stages; cladocerans had very low densities, and only appeared when environmental conditions have improved. Chapter 2 deals with the spatial differences in the distribution of zooplankton community and the influence of rainy and dry seasons on the distribution of these species; it was observed that the density of both planktonic groups were higher at the inlet, especially cyanobacteria and rotifers; microcrustaceans were especially abundant in the dry season; Chapter 3 analyzed the vertical distribution of zooplankton community and the influence of seasonality; what is observed is that while the rotifers shows a more homogeneous distribution while the microcrustaceans showed a typical distribution of vertical migration, especially in the dry season; Finally, Chapter 4 presents a simulation of artificial nutrient accumulation caused by the reduction of the water volume in case of prolonged drought; for that it were installed in the dam a bioassay mesocosm with tanks where treatment has been enriched with nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus and the other served as a control. An unexpected result was the formation of a biofilm in periphyton treatment enriched with nutrients, which has the power of reducing the density of cyanobacteria, to the point of bringing the total transparency of the water at the end of the experiment; this suggests a breakdown of nutritional resources in the dam waters, due to the residence time of the water. The phytoplankton and zooplankton communities responds to this difference. The calanoid and cladocerans only appeared at the end of the study, namely the enriched treatments, while cyclopoids lowered their densities. From the study one can conclude that the difference in shallower environments, the deeper reservoirs shows an increased residence time of the water, which is reflected in the low zooplankton diversity, especially microcrustaceans and the occurrence of blooms of cyanobacteria; while shallow lakes show a concomitant ecological succession evolution of the hydrological cycle, reflecting a larger zooplankton diversity, the deeper reservoirs exhibit greater stability and that succession occurs is required higher rainfall regimes.