- Tytuł:
- Cenotes - lakes of the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico)
- Autorzy:
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Szeroczyńska, Krystyna
Zawisza, Edyta - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2025766.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2015
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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cenotes
Yucatan
Mex ico
phytoplankton
zoo plank ton - Opis:
- Cenote lakes are nat u ral sink holes or de pres sions re sult ing from the col lapse of lime stone bed rock ex pos ing the ground wa ter un der neath. Thou sands of such lakes are par tic u larly en coun tered on the Yucatan Pen in sula (Mex ico). These lakes were of great sig nif i cance for the Maya cul ture as im por tant re li gious places and pri mary source of drinking wa ter. They per mit ted the sur vival of Ma yan com mu ni ties through dry pe ri ods known as “Maya drought”. Most of the cenote lakes are large open wa ter pools mea sur ing tens of me ters in di am e ter. The ma jor ity of cenotes are smaller shel tered sites. Their wa ters are usu ally very clear and oligotrophic, orig i nat ing from rain wa ter fil ter ing slowly through the ground. The au thors vis ited and col lected zoo plank ton sam ples from eight cenotes in No vem ber 2013, namely: Ik-Kil, Samula, Zaci, X-Kekn, Actum Ha, Cristal, Sian Ka’an, and Chan Chemuxil (transect Merida–Tulum– Cancun). The ana lysed lakes dif fer con sid er ably in mor pho log i cal terms, vary ing from very deep to shal low. Some of them are un der hu man im pact (tour ists). The wa ter sam ples were ana lysed for zoo plank ton con tent, but the phytoplank ton fre quently oc cur ring was also taken into ac count. The ob tained re sults are largely var ied, in di cated big eco -log i cal ver ity among cenotes which de pended on lake age, lo cal iza tion and morphometry. As showed our study Cladocera zoo plank ton was very rare and only pres ent at sev eral sites. Be tween the fauna com mu nity Copepoda and Ostracoda spe cies were the most abun dant. Phytoplankton were pres ent in all stud ied lakes and it sees that played the cen tral role in those eco sys tems.
- Źródło:
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Studia Quaternaria; 2015, 32; 53-57
1641-5558
2300-0384 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Quaternaria
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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