Census of marine zooplankton in Southeast Asia

本研究以人类活动和气候变化威胁下的生物多样性热点东南亚沿海生态系统为研究对象，旨在扩大我们对浮游动物的定量认识。在对现有资料进行分类、分子遗传学和生态学分析的基础上，我们发现并描述了约20种迄今未知的桡足类，并证明了在几个已知物种中存在遗传分化的隐蔽物种。我们还通过对现有样本/论文的分析/挖掘，从大约16,000个数据点数字化了浮游动物分布的定量数据。对于毛网动物，我们编制了印度洋-太平洋地区物种多样性的分布格局，并建立/发布了一个根据环境参数预测物种多样性(物种丰富度和多样性)的模型。

Focusing on the coastal ecosystems in Southeast Asia, which is a biodiversity hotspot under the threats of human activities and climate change, this study aimed at expanding our quantitative knowledge on zooplankton. On the basis of taxonomic, molecular-genetic, and ecological analyses of existing materials, we discovered and described ca. 20 species of copepods so far unknown, and demonstrated presence of genetically-differentiated cryptic species within several known species. We also digitized quantitative data of zooplankton distribution from ca. 16,000 data points by analyses/mining of existing samples/papers. As for chaetognaths, we compiled the distributional patterns of species diversity in the Indo-Pacific Region, and established/published a model to predict species diversity (species richness and diversity) from environmental parameters.