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The zooplankton communities of seven Rotorua, New Zealand, lakes of different trophic status were studied in 1977–78. They were generally dominated by the calanoid copepod, Calamoecia lucasi. Bosmina meridionalis occurred in all the lakes and Ceriodaphnia dubia in most. Only small numbers of Macrocyclops albidus ever occurred. Rotifers were not studied in detail. Community composition was similar to that in other northern New Zealand lakes. No well defined patterns of seasonal change in abundance were found and the timing of changes, which were of low magnitude, was different in each lake. Clutch sizes in all species were small. Calamoecia population parameters were analysed using multivariate methods and shown to be related to lake trophic level. Population densities were higher in more productive lakes whereas breeding levels were inversely related to indices of trophic status and population abundance. It is suggested that the populations, as in other northern New Zealand lakes, are food-limited, probably as a consequence of a lack of marked climatic seasonality and the absence of major predation pressures. Groupings of the lakes based on the Calamoecia data are in general agreement with those derived from parallel studies of water chemistry, phytoplankton and macrobenthos.
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Chapman, M.A., Green, J.D. & Jolly, V.H. Relationships between zooplankton abundance and trophic state in seven New Zealand lakes. Hydrobiologia 123, 119–136 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00018974
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