Seasonal and spatial dynamics of a ciliate assemblage in a warm-monomictic Lake Alchichica (Puebla, Mexico)

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  • Miroslav Macek Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus Iztacala, Av. de los Barrios 1, los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, 54090 Edo. México, México. Biology Centre, Institute of Hydrobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na sádkách 7, 370 05 C?eské Bude?jovice, Czech Republic
  • Dana Peštová Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus Iztacala, Av. de los Barrios 1, los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, 54090 Edo. México, México. Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Dept. Botany and Zoology, Kotlárská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic.
  • María Elena Martínez Pérez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México campus Iztacala, Av. de los Barrios 1, los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, 54090 Edo. México, México

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Ciliates, athalassohaline lake, anoxic.

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The distribution of the ciliate assemblage was surveyed along a depth gradient in the maar crater, athalassohaline, warm monomictic Lake Alchichica (Puebla, Mexico) from June 2003 to October 2006 (monthly). DAPI staining was employed to count ciliates while the Quantitative Protargol Staining was used for their identification. Peritrichs often numerically dominated the ciliate assemblage; a maximum of 54 cells ml-1 (Rhabdostyla sp.) was observed in the surface layer at the end of the mixing period, during the development of diatoms (Cyclotella alchichicana), cyanobacterial (Nodularia sp.) bloom and its decay. Minute spirotrichs (particularly Halteria grandinella) and a haptorid, Belonophrya pelagica occasionally dominated the epilimnion while mixotrophic Euplotes cf. daidaleos and Pelagothrix sp. were important round the oxycline along with haptorids, particularly Phialina sp. Scuticociliates Cyclidium glaucoma, Uronema nigricans, and anaerobic ciliates Isocyclidium globosum and Caenomorpha sp. dominated within the hypolimnetic assemblages.

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2017-01-11

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Macek, M., Peštová, D., & Martínez Pérez, M. E. (2017). Seasonal and spatial dynamics of a ciliate assemblage in a warm-monomictic Lake Alchichica (Puebla, Mexico). HIDROBIOLÓGICA, 18(1), 25–35. Recuperado de https://hidrobiologica.izt.uam.mx/hidrobiologica/index.php/revHidro/article/view/874

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