TY - JOUR
T1 - Mysis salemaai in Ireland
T2 - New occurrences and existing population declines
AU - Griffiths, David
AU - Macintosh, Katrina A.
AU - Forasacco, Elena
AU - Rippey, Brian
AU - Vaughan, Louise
AU - McElarney, Yvonne R.
AU - Gallagher, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Royal Irish Academy.
PY - 2015/5/30
Y1 - 2015/5/30
N2 - We report three new occurrences of Mysis salemaai, a conservationally important glacial relict at the southern limit of its range, in Castlewellan Lake, Lough Scolban and Lough Macnean Upper, in the north of Ireland. This increases the number of lakes in Ireland where the species has been recorded to fourteen.We consider lake area and maximum lake depth as factors that might determine the long-term survival of M. salemaai populations and show that these populations tend to occur in relatively large, deep lakes. We also show that population densities in Lough Neagh and Lough Erne are declining.
AB - We report three new occurrences of Mysis salemaai, a conservationally important glacial relict at the southern limit of its range, in Castlewellan Lake, Lough Scolban and Lough Macnean Upper, in the north of Ireland. This increases the number of lakes in Ireland where the species has been recorded to fourteen.We consider lake area and maximum lake depth as factors that might determine the long-term survival of M. salemaai populations and show that these populations tend to occur in relatively large, deep lakes. We also show that population densities in Lough Neagh and Lough Erne are declining.
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U2 - 10.3318/BIOE.2015.06
DO - 10.3318/BIOE.2015.06
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940765402
SN - 0791-7945
VL - 115B
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Biology and Environment
JF - Biology and Environment
IS - 1
ER -