Biodiversity of aquatic organisms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Autor: Dmitriy Seleznev, Cu Nguyen Dinh, Truong Ba Hai, Evgeniia Karpova, Duong Thi Kim Chi, Dmitriy Kosolapov, Natalya Kosolapova, Mikhail Malin, Inga Malina, Le Quang Man, Alexander Prokin, Irina Prusova, Andrey Sharov, Svetlana Statkevich, Alexander Tsvetkov, Yuriy Udodenko, Viktor Zakonnov, Svetlana Zhdanova, Alexander Krylov, Alexei V. Tiunov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Biodiversity Data Journal, Vol 11, Iss , Pp 1-19 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1314-2828
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e105314
Popis: The Mekong River is the 10th largest river in the world. It is recognised as the most productive river in Southeast Asia and economically essential to the region, with an estimated 60-65 million people living in the lower Mekong Basin. The Mekong Delta within Vietnam is considered a highly vulnerable ecosystem under threat from increasing anthropogenic pressure, such as dam construction and, as a consequence, the Delta is sinking and altering the natural hydrological cycle. Dams also lead to eutrophication and pollution of downstream water from regulated water flux and water stagnation. Another threat is climate change coupled with the lower rainfall, which could lead to an increased risk of drought in the Mekong Delta Basin. Thus, these project data represent an important baseline reference. The ecological health of the Mekong Delta’s environment, as indicated by the quality and availability of its water and biological resources, largely determines the economic and social development of the region, which produces about half of the agriculture and aquaculture products of Vietnam.This paper reports quantitative data on the biodiversity of six groups of aquatic organisms: bottom and pelagic fish, macrozoobenthos, microorganisms, phyto- and zooplankton in the Mekong Delta within Vietnam, as well as data on the physicochemical parameters of water and bottom sediments. The data were collected during 2018-2022 as part of the Ecolan E-3.4 programme within the framework of the research plan of the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center. All presented datasets are published for the first time.
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