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1 June 2002 AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES IN HARDWOOD DEPRESSIONS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
Juliann M. Battle, Stephen W. Golladay
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Abstract

Hardwood depressions in the southeastern United States have been extensively altered due to agriculture and other land management practices. They are small isolated wetlands dominated by oaks that typically become flooded every couple years for a few weeks to several months. We sampled the aquatic invertebrate assemblages of six depressions in 1998 and five depressions in 2001 and found they were composed primarily of clam shrimp, cladocerans, calanoid copepods, and chironomids. The primary functional feeding group was collector-filterers, which comprised >60% of the total numbers. Eubranchiopoda were well represented by two species of clam shrimp (Lynceus gracilicornis and Limnadia lenticularis) and one species of fairy shrimp (Streptocephalus seali). L. lenticularis is the first record of this species in Georgia. Consideration should be made for the conservation of hardwood depressions because of the rare invertebrates they accommodate.

Juliann M. Battle and Stephen W. Golladay "AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES IN HARDWOOD DEPRESSIONS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA," Southeastern Naturalist 1(2), 149-158, (1 June 2002). https://doi.org/10.1656/1528-7092(2002)001[0149:AIIHDO]2.0.CO;2
Published: 1 June 2002
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