Branchiopoda of the lake water masses of the Cajas National Park (Andes Australes, Ecuador): Inventory and autoecological notes

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https://doi.org/10.18537/mskn.08.01.06

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Branchiopoda, Andes, South of Ecuador

Abstract

Extensive sampling of 202 lentic water bodies (lakes, lagoons and ponds) located between 3150 and 4460 m a.s.l. in the Cajas National Park (South Ecuadorian Andes) has revealed the high interest of these mountain enclaves in tropical latitudes for the investigation of faunal and ecological aspects of the branchiopod fauna. The first results allowed to recognize 21 species, 15 of them new to Ecuador, of which 2 are in process of description to be published as new to science. All species are characteristic of little mineralized and oligotrophic waters, 8 of them appear in the plankton and the rest in the limnetic littoral benthos.

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Author Biographies

Miguel Alonso, Universidad de Barcelona

Ecology Section. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Pablo V. Mosquera, ETAPA EP

ETAPA EP, Subgerencia de Gestión Ambiental, Ecuador

Henrietta Hampel, Universidad de Cuenca

Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador; Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador.

Raúl F. Vázquez Z., Universidad de Cuenca

Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador; Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador.

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2017-06-20

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Alonso, M., Mosquera, P. V., Hampel, H., & Vázquez Z., R. F. (2017). Branchiopoda of the lake water masses of the Cajas National Park (Andes Australes, Ecuador): Inventory and autoecological notes. Maskana, 8(1), 71–76. https://doi.org/10.18537/mskn.08.01.06

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017)

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