@article{Timms_Schwentner_Rogers_2021, place={Kyiv, Ukraine}, title={On the Biodiversity Hotspot of Large Branchiopods (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the Central Paroo in Semi-Arid Australia}, volume={55}, url={https://ojs.akademperiodyka.org.ua/index.php/Zoodiversity/article/view/276}, DOI={10.15407/zoo2021.06.439}, abstractNote={<p>Biodiversity is central to the structure and functioning of communities including those of temporary water bodies.&nbsp; Worldwide the large branchiopod component commonly consists of up to six species instantaneously co-occurring per site and twice that number across the surrounding district.&nbsp; Where these figures reach eight to ten species per site and about tiwce that number per district, the term diversity hotspot is sometimes used.&nbsp; In eastern Australia, biographical factors have facilitated a rich large branchiopod fauna ca 80 species.&nbsp; Locally within 500 km2 of the central Paroo in north eastern New South Wales, a rare diverse and abuindant array of habitats supports at least 38 species, though the maximum per site syntopocally is still near ten species.&nbsp; We suggest this situation be termed a super hotspot.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p&gt;}, number={6}, journal={Zoodiversity}, author={Timms, B. and Schwentner, M. and Rogers, D. Ch.}, year={2021}, month={Nov.} }