caa a22 4500 445894407 CHVBK 20180317145627.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10750-010-0092-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10750-010-0092-3 Copepod community structure and abundance in a tropical mangrove estuary, with comparisons to coastal waters [Elektronische Daten] [Li-Lee Chew, V. Chong] Zooplankton, sampled at five stations from the upper Sangga estuary (7km upstream) in Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve (MMFR), Malaysia, to 16km offshore, comprised more than 47% copepod. Copepod abundance was highest at nearshore waters (20,311indm−3), but decreased toward both upstream (15,572indm−3) and offshore waters (12,330indm−3). Copepod abundance was also higher during the wetter NE monsoon period as compared to the drier SW monsoon period, but vice versa for copepod species diversity. Redundancy analysis (RDA) shows that copepod community structure in the upper estuary, nearshore and offshore waters differed, being influenced by spatial and seasonal variations in environmental conditions. The copepods could generally be grouped into estuarine species (dominantly Acartia spinicauda Mori, Acartia sp1, Oithona aruensis Früchtl, and Oithona dissimilis Lindberg), stenohaline species (Acartia erythraea Giesbrecht, Acrocalanus gibber Giesbrecht, Paracalanus aculateus Giesbrecht, and Corycaeus andrewsi Farran) and euryhaline species (Parvocalanus crassirostris Dahl, Oithona simplex Farran, and Bestiolina similis (Sewell)). Shifts in copepod community structure due to monsoonal effects on water parameters occurred at the lower estuary. Copepod peak abundance in mangrove waters could be associated with the peak chlorophyll a concentration prior to it. Evidence of copepod consumption by many species of young fish and shrimp larvae in the MMFR estuary implies the considerable impact of phytoplankton and microphytobenthos on mangrove trophodynamics. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Community structure nationallicence Abundance nationallicence Copepods nationallicence Mangrove estuary nationallicence Coastal waters nationallicence Chew Li-Lee Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut Chong V. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 666/1(2011-05-01), 127-143 0018-8158 666:1<127 2011 666 10750 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0092-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0092-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chew Li-Lee Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chong V. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 666/1(2011-05-01), 127-143 0018-8158 666:1<127 2011 666 10750 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer