BACKGROUND The St. Lucia Estuary, Africa's largest estuarine lake, is currently experiencing unprecedented freshwater deprivation which has resulted in a northward gradient of drought effects, with hypersaline conditions in its northern lakes. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This study documents the changes that occurred in the biotic communities at False Bay from May 2010 to June 2011, in ord...

The Eastern Scheldt estuary in the Netherlands has been anthropogenically changed by construction of a storm surge barrier about 30 years ago, affecting abiotic conditions as well phytoplankton and zooplankton (ZP). As ZP communities have not sampled last decades, it is unclear to what extent they during years. We analyzed micro- mesoZP composition background parameters at eight stations spring...

Abstract Background Wetlands are transition zones between aquatic and terrestrial environments of Opa Reservoir Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, threatened by increase in agricultural practices urbanization within the catchment area. A critical appraisal current ecological integrity wetlands using planktonic composition community structure which formidable to sustaining is essentia...

In this study, an individual-based model (IBM) was established and applied to simulate the effects of salinity variations on productivity a promising live feed cyclopoid copepod Apocyclops royi for aquaculture applications. The integrates effect different reproductive traits temperature female longevity. To calibrate developed Mobidyc platform, we collected data from previous literature conduct...

The effects of salinity, temperature, and light conditions on production and development, longevity, survival and sex ratios of the cyclopoid copepod, A. dengizicus were determined. Seven different salinity levels (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 psu), four temperatures (20, 25, 30, 35 °C), three different light intensities (33.3, 85.3, 162.1 μmol photons/ m2/ s) and light regimes (24:0, 0:24, and 12...

The effects of salinity, temperature, and light conditions on production and development, longevity, survival and sex ratios of the cyclopoid copepod, A. dengizicus were determined. Seven different salinity levels (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 psu), four temperatures (20, 25, 30, 35 °C), three different light intensities (33.3, 85.3, 162.1 μmol photons/ m2/ s) and light regimes (24:0, 0:24, and 12...