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. 2023 Oct 24:11:e105314.
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e105314. eCollection 2023.

Biodiversity of aquatic organisms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Dmitriy G Seleznev  1 , Cu Nguyen Dinh  2 , Truong Ba Hai  2 , Evgeniia P Karpova  3 , Duong Thi Kim Chi  2 , Dmitriy B Kosolapov  1 , Natalya G Kosolapova  1 , Mikhail I Malin  1 , Inga P Malina  1 , Le Quang Man  2 , Alexander A Prokin  1 , Irina Yu Prusova  3 , Andrey N Sharov  1 , Svetlana V Statkevich  3 , Alexander I Tsvetkov  1 , Yuriy G Udodenko  1 , Viktor V Zakonnov  1 , Svetlana M Zhdanova  1 , Alexander V Krylov  1 , Alexei V Tiunov  4
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Biodiversity of aquatic organisms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Dmitriy G Seleznev et al. Biodivers Data J. .

Abstract

Background: 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.

New information: 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.

Keywords: Mekong Delta; aquatic organisms; bottom sediments; database; fish; hydrology; macrozoobenthos; microorganisms; phytoplankton; southern Vietnam; zooplankton.

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Mekong Delta near My Tho city. Photo by Alexander A. Prokin.
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Mekong Delta map. Created by Mikhail I. Malin
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