https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2018.7113

Effects of environmental factors on Tigriopus fulvus, Fischer 1860, a Mediterranean harpacticoid copepod

Vol. 91 No. 1 (2018)
Submitted: October 1, 2017
Accepted: December 29, 2017
Published: May 14, 2018
Copepod, Metapopulations, Climate change, Tigriopus fulvus.
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Guido Bonello
bonello.guido@gmail.com
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8854-236X
Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Cristiano Angelini
Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Luigi Pane
Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
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.

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Bonello, G., Angelini, C., & Pane, L. (2018). Effects of environmental factors on Tigriopus fulvus, Fischer 1860, a Mediterranean harpacticoid copepod. Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino Della Società Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, 91(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2018.7113

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