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Testate Amoebae of a Monsoon Tropical Forest of South Vietnam

Publication date: 2010

Acta Protozoologica, 2010, Volume 49, Issue 4, pp. 311 - 325

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Anatoly Bobrov
Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye gory, Moscow, Russia, 119991
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Yuri A. Mazei
Department of Zoology and Ecology, Penza VG Belinsky State Pedagogical University, Penza, Russia
Department of Hydrobiology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Alexei V. Tiunov
Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technology Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russia
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Testate Amoebae of a Monsoon Tropical Forest of South Vietnam

Abstract

The composition (143 species and forms) of testate amoebae communities from 68 samples of soils and lake sediments from South Vietnam (Cat Tien National Park) was investigated. In most terrestrial habitats, hydrophilous, soil and even xerophilous testaceans were co-occurring. The likely reason for this phenomenon are sharp seasonal changes in hydrological regime including temporal overwetting or inundation. Typical members of soil communities were Plagiopyxis callidaTracheleuglypha acollaEuglypha cristataE. tuberculataTrinema complanatum. The fauna was composed mainly of eurybiont species. Less abundant but still common were moss-dwelling species from the genera HeleoperaHyalospheniaNebela and Sphenoderia. Calciphilous species were also present, including Centropyxis plagiostomaGeopyxella cf. sylvicolaSchwabia terricolaPlagiopyxis callidaP. intermedia v. cyrtostomaHeleopera petricola v. humicola. Species from the genera HoogenraadiaPlanhoogenraadiaApolimia were found in this region of South-East Asia for the first time. The variations in the species composition and diversity of testate amoebae in soils was likely caused by several mechanisms including local variations in hydrological regime, the differences in chemical and physical properties and decomposition rates of plant litter, and mineralogical features of soils. The fauna of lake sediments was very distinct with characteristic species Difflugia bacillariarumLesquereusia modestaArcella gibbosaEuglypha acanthophora. In the relatively uniform lake sediments local microcommunities were rich in species but very similar in species composition (low beta-diversity). In contrast, in soil samples the micro-scale heterogeneity was usually very pronounced, though the alpha-diversity was lower than in lake sediments. The updated list of testate amoebae of Vietnam includes 237 taxa. Taxa with restricted geographical distribution form up to one tenth of the total species richness.

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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2010, Volume 49, Issue 4, pp. 311 - 325

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2240-384X

Anatoly Bobrov
Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye gory, Moscow, Russia, 119991
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2240-384X Orcid
All publications →

Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye gory, Moscow, Russia, 119991

Department of Zoology and Ecology, Penza VG Belinsky State Pedagogical University, Penza, Russia

Department of Hydrobiology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technology Center, Hanoi, Vietnam

Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russia

Published at: 2010

Received at: 22.05.2010

Accepted at: 22.06.2010

Article status: Open

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Anatoly Bobrov (Author) - 33%
Yuri A. Mazei (Author) - 33%
Alexei V. Tiunov (Author) - 34%

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