@article{fad4b6ddd12f458097edb4cd32adf4ef,
title = "Large branchiopod occurrence and community structure in relation to land-use types in temporary ponds of northern Tanzania",
abstract = "Large branchiopods are a key component of the fauna of temporary ponds and play an important role in the functioning of these vulnerable ecosystems. Owing to the establishment of new settlements and agricultural expansion, temporary ponds in Tanzania are disappearing at an alarming rate whilst little is known about their diversity and ecology. We contrasted temporary ponds from a protected area with those in communal lands to detect associations between land-use types and large branchiopod community structure. Six large branchiopod species were collected, five of which have been previously reported from Southern Africa, whilst one turned out to be new to science: Streptocephalus manyarensis n.sp. Kafula and Brendonck (2023). The clam shrimp Cyzicus sp., fairy shrimps Streptocephalus lamellifer Thiele (1900) and S. bourquinii Hamer and Appleton (1993) were the most abundant and widely occurring. Variation in large branchiopod community structure was explained by the presence of Nothobranchius killifish and orthophosphate concentration. The large branchiopod community structure was different in settlement and protected areas. Our study on the occurrence and structure of large branchiopod communities in relation to land-use types serves as a base for formulation of guidelines and management tools to regulate land-use practices adjacent to temporary pond ecosystems.",
keywords = "Afrotropical region, Anostraca, Laevicaudata, Lake Manyara Basin, Notostraca, Spinicaudata",
author = "Kafula, {Yusuph A.} and Mataba, {Gordian R.} and Mwaijengo, {Grite N.} and Pieter Lemmens and Munishi, {Linus K.} and Francis Moyo and Trevor Dube and Bram Vanschoenwinkel and Luc Brendonck",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Henri Dumont, who has celebrated his 80 anniversary, for inspiring several generations of researchers to study temporary ponds and their enigmatic large branchiopod fauna. For Luc Brendonck it is an honor to have been his student and to now share the passion for temporary ponds with young researchers all over the world, just as Henri did. This work was funded by the Flemish Inter-university Council for University Development Cooperation (VLIR-UOS), Belgium (Grant number ZIUS2013AP029), through an institutional cooperation programme (IUC) with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), under the project “Applied Aquatic Ecology: Sustaining healthy aquatic ecosystems in Northern Tanzania to promote long term sustainable ecosystem services that improve the livelihoods of local communities”. Moreover, the study received additional funding from the British Ecological Society (Grant number EA19/1348). We thank the Tanzania wildlife Research Institute for assisting in permit processing (TWRI/RS-331/VOL.IV/2013/39). We are indebted to the laboratory staff at the School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology for offering space, equipment and utilities needed for nutrient analysis, sorting and identification of large branchiopods. th Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/s10750-023-05141-6",
language = "English",
journal = "Hydrobiologia",
issn = "0018-8158",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
}