{"id":422,"date":"2015-04-29T19:33:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agroaid-bd.org\/ralf\/?p=422"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:33:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:33:44","slug":"abundance-and-composition-of-zooplankton-at-sitakunda-coast-of-chittagong-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agroaid-bd.org\/ralf\/2015\/04\/29\/abundance-and-composition-of-zooplankton-at-sitakunda-coast-of-chittagong-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Abundance and composition of zooplankton at Sitakunda coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><strong>Author: <\/strong>Md Shahzad Kuli Khan, Sheikh Aftab Uddin, Mohammed Ashraful Haque<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[showhide type=&#8221;post&#8221; more_text=&#8221;Show Abstract&#8221; less_text=&#8221;Hide Abstract&#8221;]<\/strong><br \/>\nEight groups of zooplankton were found at Sitakunda coast, Chittagong, northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal during January to June 2007. The identified groups were Appendicularia (2.46%), Chaetognatha (2.45%), Cladocera (2.31%), Copepoda (26.05%), Ctenophora (5.86%), Crustacean zooplankton (21.64%), Ichthyoplankton (17.77%) and Meroplankton (21.45%). Abundance of zooplankton varied from 413 to 7730 individuals\/m3.Mangrove vegetate area (station- VI) has the highest abundant possibly due to the organic and inorganic matters dissolved in the water while ship breaking area (station- IV) has the lowest abundant. Zooplankton population was significantly (p&gt;0.05) higher in the mangrove vegetate area than the fishermen community area and ship breaking area. The mangrove vegetate area has the highest composition (57.06%) of zooplankton than the fishers community area and ship breaking area (29.77% and 13.16%, respectively).<em>Calanus <\/em>sp. (12.29%) belonging to Copepods and fish eggs (9.25%) belonging to Ichthyoplankton were the most abundant and <em>Oikopleura albicans <\/em>(0.66%) from Appendicularia, <em>Metapenaeus brevicornis <\/em>(0.71%) and <em>Metapenaeus monoceros <\/em>(0.90%) belonging to Crustacean larvae were the lowest abundant species found at three major investigated area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Key words: <\/strong>Mangrove area; Zooplankton; Copepoda; Fish larvae<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DOI: <a id=\"pub-id::doi\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3329\/ralf.v2i1.23053\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3329\/ralf.v2i1.23053<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[\/showhide]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/agroaid-bd.org\/ralf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/fish-april-15-4.pdf\">Download Full Article PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Md Shahzad Kuli Khan, Sheikh Aftab Uddin, Mohammed Ashraful Haque [showhide type=&#8221;post&#8221; 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