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Species Richness and Diversity of Aquatic Ecosystems 2.0

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2023) | Viewed by 7831

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Dr. Kay Van Damme

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1. Centre for Academic Heritage and Archives & Ghent University Botanical Garden, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2. Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology (FFWT), Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: taxonomy and systematics; aquatic biodiversity; biological invasions; Cladocera; evolution; biodiversity conservation
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Prof. Dr. Alexey A. Kotov

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A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Interests: phylogeography; freshwater biodiversity; taxonomy; quaternary paleontology; Cladocera
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Aquatic ecosystems globally are under increasing pressure from human activities and global warming, either directly or indirectly. Primary research focusing on aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is key to prioritizing interventions in order to safeguard life in and around water. In order to stimulate research on the fascinating world that thrives under water, we invite you to submit your best work to our Special Issue, entitled “Species Richness and Diversity of Aquatic Ecosystems”.

For this topical collection, we will select high-quality research articles related to life in aquatic ecosystems, including species richness, biology, biogeography, evolution, ecology, systematics, plasticity, genomics, threats, and conservation. Covering both invertebrate and vertebrate groups, we will accept review papers as well as primary research articles that include original data and high-quality analysis. The focus area is primarily, but not restricted to, Eurasia. Data providing a context for the evolutionary history of aquatic biota or the current global richness in a group or papers that indicate the presence and effects of threats are encouraged. This Special Issue aims to provide a basic resource for researchers interested in the current processes and baseline of aquatic diversity as well as long-term trends, forecasting, and potential solutions to challenges.

The two Guest Editors have over 25 years of experience in the field and are primarily interested in the diversity and evolution of waterfleas, a pivotal group in freshwater ecosystems around the world.

Dr. Kay Van Damme
Prof. Dr. Alexey A. Kotov
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • aquatic ecosystems
  • biodiversity
  • biogeography
  • evolution
  • invasive species
  • (meta)genomics
  • phenotypic plasticity
  • species richness
  • taxonomy and systematics
  • threats and conservation

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Revision of Monoraphid Diatom Genus Platessa with Description of Platesiberia gen. nov. from Ancient Lake Baikal
by Maxim S. Kulikovskiy, Anton M. Glushchenko, Sergei I. Genkal, Irina V. Kuznetsova and John Patrick Kociolek
Water 2022, 14(19), 2957; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14192957 - 21 Sep 2022
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A new monoraphid diatom genus, Platesiberia gen. nov., is described based on a detailed morphological investigation using light and scanning electron microscopy. The genus is based upon P. rhombicolanceolata Kulikovskiy & Lange-Bertalot and includes Platessa baicalensis Kulikovskiy & Lange-Bertalot, both species previously described [...] Read more.
A new monoraphid diatom genus, Platesiberia gen. nov., is described based on a detailed morphological investigation using light and scanning electron microscopy. The genus is based upon P. rhombicolanceolata Kulikovskiy & Lange-Bertalot and includes Platessa baicalensis Kulikovskiy & Lange-Bertalot, both species previously described from ancient Lake Baikal. Platesiberia gen. nov. is characterized by having biseriate striae on the raphe valves with uniseriate striae on the rapheless valves. Morphology of striae is helpful to distinguish the genus Platesiberia from Platessa and other monoraphid genera, and we provide a comparison of the new Baikalian genus with other freshwater monoraphid groups. Full article
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Round-the-World Voyage of the Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): Phylogeographic Data Covering the Entire Species Range
by Valentina S. Artamonova, Nikolay V. Bardukov, Olga V. Aksenova, Tatiana S. Ivanova, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Elizaveta A. Kirillova, Andrey V. Koulish, Dmitry L. Lajus, Anna M. Malyutina, Andrey N. Pashkov, Sergey I. Reshetnikov and Alexander A. Makhrov
Water 2022, 14(16), 2484; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14162484 - 12 Aug 2022
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A total of 205 COI sequences and 310 cyt b sequences of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from basins of all seas throughout the vast range of this species were analyzed. Median networks of haplotypes constructed in this study, combined with [...] Read more.
A total of 205 COI sequences and 310 cyt b sequences of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from basins of all seas throughout the vast range of this species were analyzed. Median networks of haplotypes constructed in this study, combined with the results of reconstruction of paleogeographic conditions, led to the conclusion that the threespine stickleback emerged as a species in the Pacific Ocean basin and spread to Europe from the south, populating the system of water bodies that existed in the Oligocene. The main water body was the Paratethys Ocean (Sea), which existed 5–34 Mya. In the area of the modern North Sea, stickleback populations, part of which later migrated to the eastern and western coasts of North America, gave rise to the group of haplotypes that has the widest distribution in northern Europe. The stickleback populations belonging to the lineage that dispersed along the Arctic and western coasts of North America displaced the carriers of the haplotypes of the ancient phylogenetic lineage that inhabited the Pacific coast. The ancestors of G. wheatlandi dispersed from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean via the Arctic to meet G. aculeatus, which circled the globe from east to west. Full article
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Discovery of a New Species of Daphnia (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the Arabian Peninsula Revealed a Southern Origin of a Common Northern Eurasian Species Group
by Waleed Hamza, Anna N. Neretina, Shamma Eisa Salem Al Neyadi, Khaled M.A. Amiri, Dmitry P. Karabanov and Alexey A. Kotov
Water 2022, 14(15), 2350; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14152350 - 29 Jul 2022
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The biodiversity distribution patterns and their formation history in continental waters are studied based on some model groups such as Daphnia O.F. Müller (Crustacea: Cladocera). Most publications on this genus concern the subgenus Daphnia (Daphnia) while representatives of the subgenus Daphnia [...] Read more.
The biodiversity distribution patterns and their formation history in continental waters are studied based on some model groups such as Daphnia O.F. Müller (Crustacea: Cladocera). Most publications on this genus concern the subgenus Daphnia (Daphnia) while representatives of the subgenus Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia), inhabiting mainly temporary waters, are poorly studied. We found a new species of the D. (C.) sinensis complex in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, and our discovery allows us to resolve some problems concerning the history of these daphniids in the northern hemisphere. A formal description, illustrations (including numerous SEM photos) and a differential diagnosis of D. (C.) arabica Neretina, Al Neyadi & Hamza sp. nov. are provided. Phylogeny of D. (C.) similis complex is reconstructed based on three mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S and COI); a haplotype network based on short 12S fragments is also constructed. A monophyletic D. (C.) sinensis within the D. (C.) similis complex includes three earlier-derived locally distributed members: D. (C.) similoides, D. (C.) inopinata and D. (C.) arabica sp. nov. Our data suggest an old (Late Mesozoic) Gondwanan origin of the D. (C.) sinensis group and its Caenozoic differentiation in North Africa and the Middle East. This region then became a center of subsequent dispersion of D. (C.) sinensis through the whole of Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene and subsequent epochs. Interestingly, our scheme of the D. sinensis group dispersion has a well-known analogue: it is comparable to that suggested for earlier human migration from Africa through the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East to the rest of Eurasia. Full article
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Mitochondrial Lineage Diversity and Phylogeography of Daphnia (Daphnia) (Crustacea: Cladocera) in North-East Russia
by Elena I. Zuykova, Lana P. Sleptzova, Nikolai A. Bochkarev, Yaroslav A. Kuchko, Natalia G. Sheveleva, Evgeny S. Zakharov, Lyudmila A. Pestryakova and Alexey A. Kotov
Water 2022, 14(12), 1946; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14121946 - 17 Jun 2022
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The variability of the 12S gene fragment of the mtDNA for taxa belonging to subgenus Daphnia (Daphnia) O.F. Müller, 1776 (Crustacea: Cladocera) in NE Russia is studied, and their phylogenetic analysis performed. We identified (based both on morphological and molecular data) [...] Read more.
The variability of the 12S gene fragment of the mtDNA for taxa belonging to subgenus Daphnia (Daphnia) O.F. Müller, 1776 (Crustacea: Cladocera) in NE Russia is studied, and their phylogenetic analysis performed. We identified (based both on morphological and molecular data) nine species belonging to four species complexes, namely: (A) D. longispina s.l.: (1) D. longispina O.F. Müller, 1776; (2) D. dentifera Forbes, 1893; (3) D. galeata Sars, 1864; (4) D. umbra Taylor, Hebert et Colbourne, 1996; (B) D. cristata s.l.: (5) D. cristata Sars, 1862; (6) D. longiremis Sars, 1862; (C) D. curvirostris s.l.: (7) D. curvirostris Eylmann, 1887; (D) D. pulex s.l.: (8) D. pulex Leydig, 1860; (9) D. middendorffiana Fischer, 1851. Rare arcto-mountainous taxon D. umbra was found in the mountains of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic for the first time. Species diversity in NE Asia is relatively low, and the most revealed taxa are trans-Beringian. We also performed a phylogeographic analysis of D. dentifera and D. pulex s.l., the two most common species in NE Russia. Our new data allow us to assume that the daphniids of NE Asia have undergone various evolutionary scenarios during the Pleistocene period: survival is within some local refugia, and re-colonization from these areas and from North America through the Beringian land bridge, etc. We agree with previous authors who revealed that the patterns in the studied species groups are relatively recent (of Late Pleistocene or even Holocene age), although the main phylogenetic daphniid lineages (mainly congruent with the biological species) are very old. Our results provide convincing evidence for the hypothesis that NE Russia is a very important source of modern haplotypic diversity for the cladocerans. Full article
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Freshwater Diversity of Zooplankton from Mexico: Historical Review of Some of the Main Groups
by Adrián Cervantes-Martínez, Carlos Alberto Durán Ramírez, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Alma E. García-Morales, Martha Gutiérrez-Aguirre, Sarahi Jaime, Miroslav Macek, Alejandro M. Maeda-Martínez, Fernando Martínez-Jerónimo, Rosaura Mayén-Estrada, Jorge Humberto Medina-Durán, Lucía Montes-Ortiz, Jovanny Fernando Yonatan Olvera-Bautista, Víctor Manuel Romero-Niembro and Eduardo Suárez-Morales
Water 2023, 15(5), 858; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15050858 - 23 Feb 2023
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In this review, we include rotifers, copepods, and cladocerans, including other groups not usually deemed as zooplankters: i.e., protists, acari, and large branchiopods. The objectives of this study were to integrate the dispersed literature on the taxonomy and diversity of these freshwater zooplankton [...] Read more.
In this review, we include rotifers, copepods, and cladocerans, including other groups not usually deemed as zooplankters: i.e., protists, acari, and large branchiopods. The objectives of this study were to integrate the dispersed literature on the taxonomy and diversity of these freshwater zooplankton groups and to explain (1) how these contributions can be arranged in distinct historical periods and (2) how this knowledge has allowed the detection of exotic and threatened species. We divided the freshwater zooplankton studies in Mexico into three historical periods: the first one comprised the 1840s to the 1940s when foreign researchers carried out most studies during several expeditions. Spanish researchers promoted surveys on different zooplankton taxa at the end of this first period. The second period, from the early 1950s to the end of the 1990s of the XX century, showed a remarkably increased research activity in its last ten years only (that is, during the 1990s to 2000), represented by contributions of a new generation of Mexican zooplanktologists. This period yielded more complete zooplankton listings and detailed morphological descriptions of rotifers, cladocerans, copepods, and large branchiopods. The third period started from the year 2000 to date. During this time, listings and online faunistic baselines based on integrative taxonomy have been the primary trend. An account of exotic zooplankters and conservation issues of several native species are discussed. The results of this review show that the knowledge of the freshwater zooplankton of this country has increased significantly over the last 40 years, with at least 408 first records of species for Mexico. Currently, the knowledge of Mexican freshwater zooplankton is among the most complete in the world. However, it is estimated that only a small fraction of the true diversity has been documented. Full article
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