Back to Search
Start Over
Effects of environmental factors on Tigriopus fulvus, Fischer 1860, a Mediterranean harpacticoid copepod
- Source :
- Journal of Biological Research, Vol 91, Iss 1 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- PAGEPress Publications, 2018.
-
Abstract
- Tigriopus fulvus (Fischer, 1860) is a benthic harpacticoid copepod of the Mediterranean supralittoral zone. The transitional characteristics of this environment forced this species to develop high resistance to changes of environmental parameters. Nevertheless, Tigriopus fulvus life-cycle is influenced from the splashpools physical-chemical parameters. In this paper, we present the results of a supralittoral monitoring performed in 2014, confirming the influence of some of these environmental parameters on population buildups. Because of recent worldwide climate change effects, a threat might have been posed on this particularly exposed organism, whose population density decreased of a sixfold value in the last 30 years. During the three pools (A, B, C) monitoring, the maximum copepod density recorded was 1456 Ind/l (September 2014, Pool C), alongside first records of extinction event for Tigriopus fulvus.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Mediterranean climate
Metapopulations
Population
Metapopulation
Plant Science
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Population density
Supralittoral zone
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Copepod, metapopulations, Climate change, Tigriopus fulvus
Climate change
education
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Extinction event
education.field_of_study
biology
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Biochemistry (medical)
Tigriopus fulvus
Copepod
biology.organism_classification
lcsh:Biology (General)
Benthic zone
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22840230 and 18268838
- Volume :
- 91
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino della Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dbba6254bc2a9f5cc7041de3e04c6bba