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Wang Q, Wang R, Yang X, Anderson NJ, Kong L. Interactive effects of climate-atmospheric cycling on aquatic communities and ecosystem shifts in mountain lakes of southeastern Tibetan Plateau. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 914:169825. [PMID: 38199353 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 12/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Recent climate warming and atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr) deposition are affecting a broad spectrum of physical, ecological and human systems that may be irreversible on a century time scale and have the potential to cause regime shifts in ecological systems. These changes may alter the limnological conditions with important but still unclear effects on lake ecosystems. We present changes in cladoceran with comparisons to diatom assemblages over the past ~200 years from high-resolution, well-dated sediment cores retrieved from six high mountain lakes in the southeastern (SE) margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Our findings suggest that warming and the exponential increase of atmospheric Nr deposition are the major drivers of ecological regime changes. Shifts in cladoceran and diatom communities in high alpine lakes began over a century ago and intensified since 1950 CE, indicating a regional-scale response to anthropogenic climate warming. Zooplankton in the forest lakes showed asynchronous trajectories, with increased Nr deposition as a significant explanatory factor. Forest lakes with higher dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations partially buffered the impacts of Nr deposition with little structural change, while lakes with low DOC display symptoms of resilience loss related to Nr deposition. Biological community compositional turnover in subalpine lakes has shown marked shifts, equivalent to those of low-elevation lakes strongly affected by direct human impacts. This suggests that local effects override climatic forcing and that lake basin features modified by anthropogenic activity act as basin-specific filters of common forcing. Our results indicate that snow and glacial meltwaters along with nutrient enrichment related to climate warming and atmospheric Nr deposition, represent major threats for lake ecosystems, even in remote areas. We reveal that climate and atmospheric contaminants will further impact ecological conditions and alter aquatic food webs in higher altitude biomes if climate and anthropogenic forcing continue.
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- Qian Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China.
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- Provincial Key Laboratory of Plateau Geographical Processes and Environmental Change, Faculty of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China
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Olgun N, Tarı U, Balcı N, Altunkaynak Ş, Gürarslan I, Yakan SD, Thalasso F, Astorga-España MS, Cabrol L, Lavergne C, Hoffmann L. Lithological controls on lake water biogeochemistry in Maritime Antarctica. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:168562. [PMID: 37981135 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Revised: 11/04/2023] [Accepted: 11/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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Although the Antarctic lakes are of great importance for the climate and the carbon cycle, the lithological influences on the input of elements that are necessary for phytoplankton in lakes have so far been insufficiently investigated. To address this issue, we analyzed phytoplankton cell concentrations and chemical compositions of water samples from lakes, ponds and a stream on Fildes and Ardley Islands of King George Island in the South Shetland Archipelago. Furthermore, lake sediments, as well as soil and rock samples collected from the littoral zone were analyzed for their mineralogical/petrographic composition and pollutant contents of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In addition, leaching experiments were carried out to with the lithologic samples to investigate the possible changes in pH, alkalinity, macronutrients (N, P, Si), micronutrients (e.g. Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn), anions (S, F, Br), and other cations (e.g. Na, K, Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, V, Cr, Co, Ni, As, Se, Pb, Sb, Mo, Ag, Cd, Sn, Ba, Tl, B). Our results showed that phytoplankton levels varied between 15 and 206 cells/mL. Chlorophyll-a concentrations showed high correlations with NH4, NO3. The low levels of PO4 (<0.001 mg/L) indicated a possible P-limitation in the studied lakes. The composition of rock samples ranged from basalt to trachybasalt with variable major oxide (e.g. SiO2, Na2O and K2O) contents and consist mainly quartz, albite, calcite, dolomite and zeolite minerals. The concentrations of total PAHs were below the toxic threshold levels (9.55-131.25 ng g-1 dw). Leaching experiments with lithologic samples indicated major increase in pH (up to 9.77 ± 0.02) and nutrients, especially PO4 (1.03 ± 0.04 mg/L), indicating a strong P-fertilization impact in increased melting scenarios. Whereas, toxic elements such as Pb, Cu, Cd, Al and As were also released from the lithology, which may reduce the phytoplankton growth.
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- Nazlı Olgun
- Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Faculty of Mines, Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Faculty of Mines, Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Faculty of Mines, Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav), Depto. Biotecnología y Bioingeniería, Av. IPN. 2508, San Pedro Zacatenco C.P. 07360, Mexico
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- Aix-Marseille University, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (M.I.O, UMR 110), CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- HUB Ambiental UPLA and Laboratory of Aquatic Environmental Research (LACER), Universidad de Playa Ancha, Subida Leopoldo Carvallo 207, Valparaíso 234000, Chile
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- Department of Botany, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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Sergeant CJ, Moore JW, Whited DC, Pitman KJ, Connor M, Sexton EK. An interdisciplinary synthesis of floodplain ecosystem dynamics in a rapidly deglaciating watershed. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:169245. [PMID: 38072264 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2023] [Revised: 11/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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Glacier retreat is rapidly transforming some watersheds, with ramifications for water supply, ecological succession, important species such as Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), and cultural uses of landscapes. To advance a more holistic understanding of the evolution of proglacial landscapes, we integrate multiple lines of knowledge starting in the early 1900s with contemporary data from the Taaltsux̱éi (Tulsequah) Watershed in British Columbia, Canada. Our objectives were to: 1) synthesize recent historical geography and Indigenous Knowledge, including glacier dynamics, and hydrology; 2) describe the limnology of a proglacial lake; 3) quantify decadal-scale downstream physical floodplain change; and 4) characterize riverine physical, chemical, and biological differences relative to distance from the proglacial lake. Since 1982, the Tulsequah Glacier has receded 0.07 km/yr, exposing a cold, deep, and growing proglacial lake. The downstream floodplain is rapidly changing; satellite imagery analysis revealed a 14 % increase in vegetation from 2003 to 2017 and Indigenous Knowledge described increases in vegetation and wildlife habitat over the last century. Contemporary measurements of physical-chemical water properties differed across sites representing the upper and lower watershed, and mainstem and off-channel habitats. Catches of juvenile salmonids in the upper watershed (closer to the glacier) were mostly limited to warmer, clearer groundwater-fed channels, whereas in the lower watershed there were salmonids in both groundwater-fed and mainstem habitats. There was limited zooplankton taxa diversity from the proglacial lake and benthic macroinvertebrates in the river. Collectively, our synthesis suggests that the transformation of proglacial landscapes experiencing rapid ice loss can be influenced by interlinked abiotic processes of glacier retreat, lake formation, and altered hydrology, as well as corresponding biological processes such as beaver repopulation, wetland formation, and riparian vegetation growth. These factors, along with expected increases to proglacial lake productivity and salmon habitat suitability, are an important consideration for forward-looking watershed management of glacier-fed rivers.
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- Christopher J Sergeant
- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, 32125 Bio Station Ln, Polson, MT 59860-6815, USA.
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- Earth2Ocean Research Group, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
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- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, 32125 Bio Station Ln, Polson, MT 59860-6815, USA.
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- Earth2Ocean Research Group, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Lands, Resources, and Fisheries, Taku River Tlingit First Nation, P.O. Box 132, Atlin, BC V0W 1A0, Canada.
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- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, 32125 Bio Station Ln, Polson, MT 59860-6815, USA.
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Guo X, Yan Q, Wang F, Wang W, Zhang Z, Liu Y, Liu K. Habitat-specific patterns of bacterial communities in a glacier-fed lake on the Tibetan Plateau. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2024; 100:fiae018. [PMID: 38378869 PMCID: PMC10903976 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiae018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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Different types of inlet water are expected to affect microbial communities of lake ecosystems due to changing environmental conditions and the dispersal of species. However, knowledge of the effects of changes in environmental conditions and export of microbial assemblages on lake ecosystems is limited, especially for glacier-fed lakes. Here, we collected water samples from the surface water of a glacier-fed lake and its two fed streams on the Tibetan Plateau to investigate the importance of glacial and non-glacial streams as sources of diversity for lake bacterial communities. Results showed that the glacial stream was an important source of microorganisms in the studied lake, contributing 45.53% to the total bacterial community in the lake water, while only 19.14% of bacterial community in the lake water was seeded by the non-glacial stream. Bacterial communities were significantly different between the glacier-fed lake and its two fed streams. pH, conductivity, total dissolved solids, water temperature and total nitrogen had a significant effect on bacterial spatial turnover, and together explained 36.2% of the variation of bacterial distribution among habitats. Moreover, bacterial co-occurrence associations tended to be stronger in the lake water than in stream habitats. Collectively, this study may provide an important reference for assessing the contributions of different inlet water sources to glacier-fed lakes.
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- Xuezi Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Hata S, Kawamata M, Doi K. Outbursts from an ice-marginal lake in Antarctica in 1969-1971 and 2017, revealed by aerial photographs and satellite data. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20619. [PMID: 38012284 PMCID: PMC10682390 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47522-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023] Open
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The liquid water around the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a key role in modulating both the vulnerability of ice shelves to hydrofracturing and ice discharge from outlet glaciers. Therefore, it needs to be adequately constrained for precise future projections of ice-mass loss and global sea-level rise. Although glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) pose one of the greatest risks in glacierized mountainous regions, any long-term monitoring of Antarctic ice-marginal lakes and their associated potential for GLOFs has been neglected until recently owing to the limited number of such events reported in Antarctica. Here we present direct evidence of repeated GLOFs from Lake Kaminotani-Ike, an ice-sheet-dammed lake in East Antarctica, via an analysis of historical aerial photographs and recent satellite data. Two GLOFs occurred in 1969-1971 and 2017, with discharge volumes of (8.6 ± 1.5) × 107 and (7.1 ± 0.4) × 107 m3, respectively, making them two of the largest GLOFs in Antarctica. A southerly oceanward pathway beneath the ice sheet is the most likely drainage route of these GLOF events based on the available surface- and bed-elevation datasets. Furthermore, the 2017 event occurred during the austral winter, thereby implying the possibility of year-round active subglacial networks in Antarctica. Our results highlight that studies on Antarctic ice-marginal lakes provide an opportunity to better understand Antarctic hydrological processes and emphasize the need for both detailed monitoring of ice-marginal lakes and detailed surveying of the subglacial environments of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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- Shuntaro Hata
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
- Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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- Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold Region, Public Works Research Institute, Sapporo, Japan
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- National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
- The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, Japan
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Farkas J, Svendheim LH, Øverjordet IB, Davies EJ, Altin D, Nordtug T, Olsvik PA, Jager T, Hansen BH. Effects of mine tailing exposure on the development of early life stages of the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. PART A 2023:1-9. [PMID: 37902244 DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2023.2274935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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The demand for mineral resources is increasing mining activities worldwide. In Norway, marine tailing disposal (MTD) is practiced, introducing mineral particles into fjord ecosystems. We investigated the effects of two concentrations (high and low) of fine tailings from a CaCO3 processing plant on early life stages of the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Results show that the exposure did not significantly impact hatching success or development in non- and early feeding life stages. However, feeding stage nauplii ingested tailings, which caused a significantly slower development in later nauplii stages in high exposure groups, with most individuals being two stages behind the control group. Further, high mortality occurred in late nauplii and early copepodite stages in low exposure groups, which could be caused by insufficient energy accumulation and depleted energy reserves during development. Individuals exposed to high exposure concentrations seemed to survive by arresting development and potentially by reduced activity, thereby conserving energy reserves. In nature, slower development could affect lipid storage buildup and reproduction.
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- Julia Farkas
- Climate and Environment, SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø, Norway
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- Climate and Environment, SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway
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- Climate and Environment, SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø, Norway
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Modenutti B, Martyniuk N, Bastidas Navarro M, Balseiro E. Glacial Influence Affects Modularity in Bacterial Community Structure in Three Deep Andean North-Patagonian Lakes. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2023; 86:1869-1880. [PMID: 36735066 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-023-02184-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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We analyze the bacteria community composition and the ecological processes structuring these communities in three deep lakes that receive meltwater from the glaciers of Mount Tronador (North-Patagonia, Argentina). Lakes differ in their glacial connectivity and in their turbidity due to glacial particles. Lake Ventisquero Negro is a recently formed proglacial lake and it is still in contact with the glacier. Lakes Mascardi and Frías lost their glacial connectivity during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Total dissolved solid concentration has a significant contribution to the environmental gradient determining the segregation of the three lakes. The newly formed lake Ventisquero Negro conformed a particular bacterial community that seemed to be more related to the microorganisms coming from glacier melting than to the other lakes of the basin. The net relatedness index (NRI) showed that the bacterial community of lake Ventisquero Negro is determined by environmental filtering, while in the other lakes, species interaction would be a more important driver. The co-occurrence network analysis showed an increase in modularity and in the number of modules when comparing Lake Ventisquero Negro with the two large glacier-fed lakes suggesting an increase in heterogeneity. At the same time, the presence of modules with phototrophic bacteria (Cyanobium strains) in lakes Frías and Mascardi would reflect the increase of this functional photosynthetic association. Overall, our results showed that the reduction in ice masses in Patagonia will affect downstream large deep Piedmont lakes losing the glacial influence in their bacterial communities.
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- Beatriz Modenutti
- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA, CONICET-University of Comahue, Quintral 1250, 8400, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA, CONICET-University of Comahue, Quintral 1250, 8400, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA, CONICET-University of Comahue, Quintral 1250, 8400, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA, CONICET-University of Comahue, Quintral 1250, 8400, Bariloche, Argentina.
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Kollár J, Kopalová K, Kavan J, Vrbická K, Nývlt D, Nedbalová L, Stibal M, Kohler TJ. Recently formed Antarctic lakes host less diverse benthic bacterial and diatom communities than their older counterparts. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2023; 99:fiad087. [PMID: 37516444 PMCID: PMC10446143 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/31/2023] Open
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Glacier recession is creating new water bodies in proglacial forelands worldwide, including Antarctica. Yet, it is unknown how microbial communities of recently formed "young" waterbodies (originating decades to a few centuries ago) compare with established "old" counterparts (millennia ago). Here, we compared benthic microbial communities of different lake types on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, using 16S rDNA metabarcoding and light microscopy to explore bacterial and diatom communities, respectively. We found that the older lakes host significantly more diverse bacterial and diatom communities compared to the young ones. To identify potential mechanisms for these differences, linear models and dbRDA analyses suggested combinations of water temperature, pH, and conductivity to be the most important factors for diversity and community structuring, while differences in geomorphological and hydrological stability, though more difficult to quantify, are likely also influential. These results, along with an indicator species analysis, suggest that physical and chemical constraints associated with individual lakes histories are likely more influential to the assembly of the benthic microbial communities than lake age alone. Collectively, these results improve our understanding of microbial community drivers in Antarctic freshwaters, and help predict how the microbial landscape may shift with future habitat creation within a changing environment.
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- Jan Kollár
- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, CZ-12844, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, CZ-12844, Czech Republic
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- Polar-Geo-Lab, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, Brno, CZ-61137, Czech Republic
- Alfred Jahn Cold Regions Research Centre, University of Wroclaw, pl. Uniwersytecki 1, Wroclaw 50-137, Poland
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, CZ-12844, Czech Republic
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- Polar-Geo-Lab, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, Brno, CZ-61137, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, CZ-12844, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, CZ-12844, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague 2, CZ-12844, Czech Republic
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Bosson JB, Huss M, Cauvy-Fraunié S, Clément JC, Costes G, Fischer M, Poulenard J, Arthaud F. Future emergence of new ecosystems caused by glacial retreat. Nature 2023; 620:562-569. [PMID: 37587299 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06302-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023]
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Glacier shrinkage and the development of post-glacial ecosystems related to anthropogenic climate change are some of the fastest ongoing ecosystem shifts, with marked ecological and societal cascading consequences1-6. Yet, no complete spatial analysis exists, to our knowledge, to quantify or anticipate this important changeover7,8. Here we show that by 2100, the decline of all glaciers outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets may produce new terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems over an area ranging from the size of Nepal (149,000 ± 55,000 km2) to that of Finland (339,000 ± 99,000 km2). Our analysis shows that the loss of glacier area will range from 22 ± 8% to 51 ± 15%, depending on the climate scenario. In deglaciated areas, the emerging ecosystems will be characterized by extreme to mild ecological conditions, offering refuge for cold-adapted species or favouring primary productivity and generalist species. Exploring the future of glacierized areas highlights the importance of glaciers and emerging post-glacial ecosystems in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss and freshwater scarcity. We find that less than half of glacial areas are located in protected areas. Echoing the recent United Nations resolution declaring 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation9 and the Global Biodiversity Framework10, we emphasize the need to urgently and simultaneously enhance climate-change mitigation and the in situ protection of these ecosystems to secure their existence, functioning and values.
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- J B Bosson
- Asters, Conservatory of Natural Areas of Haute-Savoie, Annecy, France.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- INRAE, UR RIVERLY, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Savoie Mont Blanc, INRAE, CARRTEL, Thonon-les-Bains, France
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- Asters, Conservatory of Natural Areas of Haute-Savoie, Annecy, France
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- Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Laboratory Environnement Dynamique et Territoire de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
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- Université Savoie Mont Blanc, INRAE, CARRTEL, Thonon-les-Bains, France
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Wei J, Fontaine L, Valiente N, Dörsch P, Hessen DO, Eiler A. Trajectories of freshwater microbial genomics and greenhouse gas saturation upon glacial retreat. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3234. [PMID: 37270637 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38806-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023] Open
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Due to climate warming, ice sheets around the world are losing mass, contributing to changes across terrestrial landscapes on decadal time spans. However, landscape repercussions on climate are poorly constrained mostly due to limited knowledge on microbial responses to deglaciation. Here, we reveal the genomic succession from chemolithotrophy to photo- and heterotrophy and increases in methane supersaturation in freshwater lakes upon glacial retreat. Arctic lakes at Svalbard also revealed strong microbial signatures form nutrient fertilization by birds. Although methanotrophs were present and increased along lake chronosequences, methane consumption rates were low even in supersaturated systems. Nitrous oxide oversaturation and genomic information suggest active nitrogen cycling across the entire deglaciated landscape, and in the high Arctic, increasing bird populations serve as major modulators at many sites. Our findings show diverse microbial succession patterns, and trajectories in carbon and nitrogen cycle processes representing a positive feedback loop of deglaciation on climate warming.
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- Jing Wei
- Department of Biosciences and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, Center of Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences and Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway.
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Maselli M, Meire L, Meire P, Hansen PJ. Effects of Glacial Flour on Marine Micro-plankton: Evidences from Natural Communities of Greenlandic Fjords and Experimental Studies. Protist 2023; 174:125928. [PMID: 36442289 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Meltwater runoff from glaciers carries particles, so-called glacial flour that may affect planktonic organisms and the functioning of marine ecosystems. Protist microplankton is at the base of marine food webs and thus plays an important role in sustaining important ecosystem services. To assess the effect of glacial flour on photoautotrophic, heterotrophic and mixotrophic microplankton, the spatial distribution of these trophic groups was studied in four Greenlandic fjords during summer. The results suggest that the abundance of the autotrophic microplankton was affected by the glacier meltwater due to reduced light penetration and nutrient availability. The abundance of heterotrophic and mixotrophic microplankton were not apparently affected by the glacier meltwater. Incubation experiments were conducted on the natural population and in laboratory cultures of two mixoplanktonic ciliate species. The experiments on the natural population revealed that none of the trophic groups were affected by the suspended material at concentrations up to 50 mg L-1. The experiments on cultures gave no indication that glacial flour was ingested by the mixoplanktonic ciliates. Growth rates of cultured ciliates were not affected by the glacial flour addition. These results suggest that heterotrophic and mixotrophic microplankton are not affected by glacial flour as much as autotrophic microplankton.
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- Maira Maselli
- Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark.
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- Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, The Netherlands; Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland
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- Ecosystem Management Research Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark
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Striebel M, Kallajoki L, Kunze C, Wollschläger J, Deininger A, Hillebrand H. Marine primary producers in a darker future: a meta‐analysis of light effects on pelagic and benthic autotrophs. OIKOS 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.09501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Maren Striebel
- Inst. for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg Wilhelmshaven Germany
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- Inst. for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg Wilhelmshaven Germany
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- Inst. for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg Wilhelmshaven Germany
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- Inst. for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg Wilhelmshaven Germany
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- Centre for Coastal Research, Univ. of Agder Kristiansand Norway
- Norwegian Inst. for Water Research (NIVA) Oslo Norway
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- Inst. for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg Wilhelmshaven Germany
- Helmholtz Inst. for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Univ. Oldenburg Oldenburg Germany
- Alfred Wegener Inst., Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven Germany
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Schmeller DS, Urbach D, Bates K, Catalan J, Cogălniceanu D, Fisher MC, Friesen J, Füreder L, Gaube V, Haver M, Jacobsen D, Le Roux G, Lin YP, Loyau A, Machate O, Mayer A, Palomo I, Plutzar C, Sentenac H, Sommaruga R, Tiberti R, Ripple WJ. Scientists' warning of threats to mountains. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 853:158611. [PMID: 36087665 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Mountains are an essential component of the global life-support system. They are characterized by a rugged, heterogenous landscape with rapidly changing environmental conditions providing myriad ecological niches over relatively small spatial scales. Although montane species are well adapted to life at extremes, they are highly vulnerable to human derived ecosystem threats. Here we build on the manifesto 'World Scientists' Warning to Humanity', issued by the Alliance of World Scientists, to outline the major threats to mountain ecosystems. We highlight climate change as the greatest threat to mountain ecosystems, which are more impacted than their lowland counterparts. We further discuss the cascade of "knock-on" effects of climate change such as increased UV radiation, altered hydrological cycles, and altered pollution profiles; highlighting the biological and socio-economic consequences. Finally, we present how intensified use of mountains leads to overexploitation and abstraction of water, driving changes in carbon stock, reducing biodiversity, and impacting ecosystem functioning. These perturbations can provide opportunities for invasive species, parasites and pathogens to colonize these fragile habitats, driving further changes and losses of micro- and macro-biodiversity, as well further impacting ecosystem services. Ultimately, imbalances in the normal functioning of mountain ecosystems will lead to changes in vital biological, biochemical, and chemical processes, critically reducing ecosystem health with widespread repercussions for animal and human wellbeing. Developing tools in species/habitat conservation and future restoration is therefore essential if we are to effectively mitigate against the declining health of mountains.
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- Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK; MRC Centre for GlobaI Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.
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- CREAF Campus UAB, Edifici C, Cerdanyola Del Valles, Spain; CSIC, Campus UAB, Cerdanyola Del Valles, Spain.
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- Ovidius University Constanţa, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Agricultural Sciences, Al. Universităţii 1, 900470 Constanţa, Romania
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- MRC Centre for GlobaI Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK.
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Social Ecology (SEC), Schottenfeldgasse 29, Austria.
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- LEFE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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- Freshwater Biological Section, Dept. Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- LEFE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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- Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
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- LEFE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Social Ecology (SEC), Schottenfeldgasse 29, Austria.
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- Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, IRD, CNRS, Grenoble INP*, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France.
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Social Ecology (SEC), Schottenfeldgasse 29, Austria.
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- LEFE, Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, Toulouse, France.
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - DSTA, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
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Bhaskar JT, Parli BV, Tripathy SC, Jawak SD, Varunan T. Does suspended sediment affect the phytoplankton community composition and diversity in an Arctic fjord? A comparative study during summer. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2022; 195:168. [PMID: 36450883 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-022-10734-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The Arctic regions experience strong seasonality and are largely affected by increasing temperature. This is particularly evident in the Kongsfjorden, which is surrounded by glaciers and is affected by seasonal and annual changes in temperature. It is largely influenced by glacial meltwater bringing in fluvial inputs such as total suspended matter (TSM) and warm Atlantic waters, which could alter the phytoplankton community. Seven stations in the Kongsfjorden representing glacier-influenced head (KF7, KF6, KF5), mid (KF4, KF3), and open region of the fjord (KF2 and KF1) were considered to evaluate the effect of TSM on phytoplankton community structure, abundance, chlorophyll a (Chl a), diversity index, evenness, and richness during summer 2011 (June) and 2018 (August) and related with atmospheric and hydrological parameters. The annual average atmospheric temperature (AAAT) over Ny-Ålesund showed an increase in temperature by a degree from -3.52 °C in 2011 to -2.44 °C in 2018, while the summer average atmospheric temperature (SAAT) over the same period increased from 5.80 to 6.16 °C. Increased freshening of the fjord led to an increase in TSM during 2018 which coincided with a decrease in Chl a by an order of magnitude. Although sea surface temperature (SST) was warmer in 2011, TSM was higher in 2018. The number of phytoplankton groups identified decreased from 11 in 2011 to 4 in 2018. A distinct alteration in phytoplankton community structure was observed from head fjord to open fjord with higher diversity observed during 2011 compared to 2018. This work highlights the effect of TSM on the phytoplankton community in the Kongsfjorden.
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- J T Bhaskar
- National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Headland Sada, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, 403 804, India.
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- National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Headland Sada, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, 403 804, India
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- National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Headland Sada, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, 403 804, India
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- Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, SIOS Knowledge Centre, Postboks 156, Longyearbyen, 9171, Norway
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- Ocean Optics and Imaging Laboratory, Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600036, India
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Kleinteich J, Hanselmann K, Hildebrand F, Kappler A, Zarfl C. Glacier melt-down changes habitat characteristics and unique microbial community composition and physiology in Alpine lakes sediments. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2022; 98:6617590. [PMID: 35749563 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiac075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Glacial melt-down alters hydrological and physicochemical conditions in downstream aquatic habitats. In this study we tested if sediment associated microbial communities respond to the decrease of glaciers and associated meltwater flows in high-alpine lakes. We analysed 16 lakes in forefield catchments of three glaciers in the Eastern Swiss Alps on physicochemical and biological parameters. We compared lakes fed by glacier meltwater with hydrologically disconnected lakes, as well as "mixed" lakes that received water from both other lake types. Glacier-fed lakes had a higher turbidity (94 NTU) and conductivity (47 µS/cm), but were up to 5.2°C colder than disconnected lakes (1.5 NTU, 26 µS/cm). Nutrient concentration was low in all lakes (TN <0.05 mg/L, TP <0.02 mg/L). Bacterial diversity in the sediments decreased significantly with altitude. Bacterial community composition correlated with turbidity, temperature, conductivity, nitrate and lake age and was distinctly different between glacier-fed compared to disconnected and mixed water lakes, but not between catchments. Chemoheterotrophic processes were more abundant in glacier-fed compared to disconnected and mixed water lakes where photoautotrophic processes dominated. Our study suggests that the loss of glaciers will change sediment bacterial community composition and physiology that are unique for glacier-fed lakes in mountain and polar regions.
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- Julia Kleinteich
- Center for Applied Geoscience, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
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- Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7UZ, UK.,Gut Microbes & Health, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7UQ, UK
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- Center for Applied Geoscience, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence: EXC 2124: Controlling Microbes to Fight Infection, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Applied Geoscience, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
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Haver M, Le Roux G, Friesen J, Loyau A, Vredenburg VT, Schmeller DS. The role of abiotic variables in an emerging global amphibian fungal disease in mountains. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 815:152735. [PMID: 34974000 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The emergence of the chytridiomycete fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), causing the disease chytridiomycosis, has caused collapse of amphibian communities in numerous mountain systems. The health of amphibians and of mountain freshwater habitats they inhabit is also threatened by ongoing changes in environmental and anthropogenic factors such as climate, hydrology, and pollution. Climate change is causing more extreme climatic events, shifts in ice occurrence, and changes in the timing of snowmelt and pollutant deposition cycles. All of these factors impact both pathogen and host, and disease dynamics. Here we review abiotic variables, known to control Bd occurrence and chytridiomycosis severity, and discuss how climate change may modify them. We propose two main categories of abiotic variables that may alter Bd distribution, persistence, and physiology: 1) climate and hydrology (temperature, precipitation, hydrology, ultraviolet radiation (UVR); and, 2) water chemistry (pH, salinity, pollution). For both categories, we identify topics for further research. More studies on the relationship between global change, pollution and pathogens in complex landscapes, such as mountains, are needed to allow for accurate risk assessments for freshwater ecosystems and resulting impacts on wildlife and human health. Our review emphasizes the importance of using data of higher spatiotemporal resolution and uniform abiotic metrics in order to better compare study outcomes. Fine-scale temperature variability, especially of water temperature, variability of moisture conditions and water levels, snow, ice and runoff dynamics should be assessed as abiotic variables shaping the mountain habitat of pathogen and host. A better understanding of hydroclimate and water chemistry variables, as co-factors in disease, will increase our understanding of chytridiomycosis dynamics.
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- Marilen Haver
- Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France.
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- Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
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- Environmental and Biotechnology Centre, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France; Department of Experimental Limnology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Alte Fischerhütte 2, Stechlin D-16775, Germany
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- Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
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- Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
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Svendheim LH, Jager T, Olsvik PA, Øverjordet IB, Ciesielski TM, Nordtug T, Kristensen T, Hansen BH, Kvæstad B, Altin D, Farkas J. Effects of marine mine tailing exposure on the development, growth, and lipid accumulation in Calanus finmarchicus. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 282:131051. [PMID: 34470148 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Revised: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Marine tailing disposal (MTD) is sometimes practiced as an alternative to traditional mine tailing deposition on land. Environmental challenges connected to MTD include spreading of fine particulate matter in the water column and the potential release of metals and processing chemicals. This study investigated if tailing exposure affects the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus, and whether effects are related to exposure to mineral particles or the presence of metals and/or processing chemicals in the tailings. We investigated the impacts of three different tailing compositions: calcium carbonate particles with and without processing chemicals and fine-grained tailings from a copper ore. Early life stages of C. finmarchicus were exposed over several developmental stages to low and high suspension concentrations for 15 days, and their development, oxygen consumption and biometry determined. The data was fitted in a dynamic energy budget (DEB) model to determine mechanisms underlying responses and to understand the primary modes of action related to mine tailing exposure. Results show that copepods exposed to tailings generally exhibited slower growth and accumulated less lipids. The presence of metals and processing chemicals did not influence these responses, suggesting that uptake of mineral particles was responsible for the observed effects. This was further supported by the applied DEB model, confirming that ingestion of tailing particles while feeding can result in less energy being available for growth and development.
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Robb DM, Pieters R, Lawrence GA. Fate of turbid glacial inflows in a hydroelectric reservoir. ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS (DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS : 2001) 2021; 21:1201-1225. [PMID: 34966250 PMCID: PMC8665924 DOI: 10.1007/s10652-021-09815-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Turbidity from glacial meltwater limits light penetration with potential ecological consequences. Using profiles of temperature, conductivity, and turbidity, we examine the physical processes driving changes in the epilimnetic turbidity of Carpenter Reservoir, a long and narrow, glacier-fed reservoir in southwest British Columbia, Canada. Following the onset of permanent summer stratification, the relatively dense inflows plunged into the hypolimnion, and despite the high glacial load entering the reservoir, the epilimnion cleared due to particle settling. Using a one-dimensional (longitudinal) diffusion equation for a decaying substance to describe the variation in epilimnetic turbidity, we obtain two nondimensional parameters: the epilimnetic inflow parameter, I , a measure of the turbidity flux into the epilimnion; and the dispersion parameter, D , a measure of longitudinal dispersion. In the case of Carpenter Reservoir: I ≪ 1 , indicating that turbidity declines over the summer; and D ≪ 1 , indicating a strong gradient in turbidity along the epilimnion. Using our theoretical formulation of epilimnetic turbidity variations in conjunction with monthly field surveys, we compute the particle settling velocity ( ∼ 0.25 m d - 1 ), the longitudinal dispersion coefficient (50-70 m 2 s - 1 ), and the flux of turbid water into the epilimnion ( ∼ 1 % of the total inflow). Our approach is applicable to other reservoirs and can be used to investigate changes in turbidity in response to changes in I and D .
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- Daniel M. Robb
- Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
- Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
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Liu K, Liu Y, Hu A, Wang F, Zhang Z, Yan Q, Ji M, Vick-Majors TJ. Fate of glacier surface snow-originating bacteria in the glacier-fed hydrologic continuums. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:6450-6462. [PMID: 34559463 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Glaciers represent important biomes of Earth and are recognized as key species pools for downstream aquatic environments. Worldwide, rapidly receding glaciers are driving shifts in hydrology, species distributions and threatening microbial diversity in glacier-fed aquatic ecosystems. However, the impact of glacier surface snow-originating taxa on the microbial diversity in downstream aquatic environments has been little explored. To elucidate the contribution of glacier surface snow-originating taxa to bacterial diversity in downstream aquatic environments, we collected samples from glacier surface snows, downstream streams and lakes along three glacier-fed hydrologic continuums on the Tibetan Plateau. Our results showed that glacier stream acts as recipients and vectors of bacteria originating from the glacier environments. The contributions of glacier surface snow-originating taxa to downstream bacterial communities decrease from the streams to lakes, which was consistently observed in three geographically separated glacier-fed ecosystems. Our results also revealed that some rare snow-originating bacteria can thrive along the hydrologic continuums and become dominant in downstream habitats. Finally, our results indicated that the dispersal patterns of bacterial communities are largely determined by mass effects and increasingly subjected to local sorting of species along the glacier-fed hydrologic continuums. Collectively, this study provides insights into the fate of bacterial assemblages in glacier surface snow following snow melt and how bacterial communities in aquatic environments are affected by the influx of glacier snow-originating bacteria.
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- Keshao Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System Science (LATPES), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System Science (LATPES), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.,Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, 361021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System Science (LATPES), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System Science (LATPES), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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Dindhoria K, Kumar S, Kumar R. Taxonomic and functional analysis of proglacial water bodies of Triloknath glacier ecosystem from North-Western Himalayas. ECOL INFORM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Szeligowska M, Trudnowska E, Boehnke R, Dąbrowska AM, Dragańska-Deja K, Deja K, Darecki M, Błachowiak-Samołyk K. The interplay between plankton and particles in the Isfjorden waters influenced by marine- and land-terminating glaciers. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 780:146491. [PMID: 34030341 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Revised: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Climate-induced glacial retreat in the Arctic results in an increased supply of meltwater with suspended terrigenous material into the marine environment. Despite increasing research efforts, effects of glacial retreat on functioning of plankton are not well documented and understood. Thus, we studied a hydro-optical seawater regime along with particle/plankton concentrations and composition structure in a high Arctic fjord (Isfjorden, West Spitsbergen) during mid-summer in 2019. This comprehensive study of the upper 50 m water layer presented a sharp distinction between 'muddy' waters influenced by glacial and river runoff and 'clear' open fjordic waters in the form of a notable difference in chlorophyll a concentrations, extent of euphotic zone depth, turbidity, inorganic/organic particle concentrations, and water colour. In this study, we present that the effects of glacial retreat on Arctic pelagial depend not only on different types of glaciers (marine- and land-terminating), but presumably, also on fjord topography and exposure to oceanic water inflow. The contrasting glacial, hydrological, and topographical conditions had different effects on the share of zooplankton and marine snow. Despite adaptation of the planktonic communities in the Arctic to high sediment loads and resultant light limitations, our study shows that continuing retreat of tidewater glaciers will have negative effect on planktonic communities especially in enclosed shallow fjord branches. Moreover, seawater darkening due to high turbidity could negatively affect tactile predators, such as gelatinous zooplankton. Additional division of plankton into functional groups typically used in the biogeochemical models demonstrated that diatoms, flagellates and mesozooplankton are influenced by suspended matter, whereas microzooplankton are highly adaptive to increased sediment loads. Since we investigated the largest Svalbard fjord system and incorporated multiple components of the pelagic realm, the current study delivers important recommendations for including marine snow and gelatinous zooplankton in ecosystem models applied in polar regions.
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- Marlena Szeligowska
- Pelagic Biocenosis Functioning Laboratory, Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland.
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- Pelagic Biocenosis Functioning Laboratory, Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Pelagic Biocenosis Functioning Laboratory, Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Marine Protists Laboratory, Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Marine Physics, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Benthic Ecology Laboratory, Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Marine Physics, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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- Pelagic Biocenosis Functioning Laboratory, Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
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Yarzábal LA, Salazar LMB, Batista-García RA. Climate change, melting cryosphere and frozen pathogens: Should we worry…? ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY (SINGAPORE) 2021; 4:489-501. [PMID: 38624658 PMCID: PMC8164958 DOI: 10.1007/s42398-021-00184-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Permanently frozen environments (glaciers, permafrost) are considered as natural reservoirs of huge amounts of microorganisms, mostly dormant, including human pathogens. Due to global warming, which increases the rate of ice-melting, approximately 4 × 1021 of these microorganisms are released annually from their frozen confinement and enter natural ecosystems, in close proximity to human settlements. Some years ago, the hypothesis was put forward that this massive release of potentially-pathogenic microbes-many of which disappeared from the face of the Earth thousands and even millions of years ago-could give rise to epidemics. The recent anthrax outbreaks that occurred in Siberia, and the presence of bacterial and viral pathogens in glaciers worldwide, seem to confirm this hypothesis. In that context, the present review summarizes the currently available scientific evidence that allows us to imagine a near future in which epidemic outbreaks, similar to the abovementioned, could occur as a consequence of the resurrection and release of microbes from glaciers and permafrost. Supplementary Information The online version of this article (10.1007/s42398-021-00184-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Luis Andrés Yarzábal
- Unidad de Salud y Bienestar, Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Av. Las Américas and Calle Humboldt, Cuenca, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Transferencia de Tecnología (CIITT), Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Campus Miracielos, Ricaurte, Ecuador
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- Unidad de Salud y Bienestar, Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Av. Las Américas and Calle Humboldt, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Centro de Investigación en Dinámica Celular, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos Mexico
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Brahney J, Bothwell ML, Capito L, Gray CA, Null SE, Menounos B, Curtis PJ. Glacier recession alters stream water quality characteristics facilitating bloom formation in the benthic diatom Didymosphenia geminata. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 764:142856. [PMID: 33092829 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Glaciers provide cold, turbid runoff to many mountain streams in the late summer and buffer against years with low snowfall. The input of glacial meltwater to streams maintains unique habitats and support a diversity of stream flora and fauna. In western Canada, glaciers are anticipated to retreat by 60-80% by the end of the century, and this retreat will invoke widespread changes in mountain ecosystems. We used a space-for-time substitution along a gradient of glacierization in western Canada to develop insights into changes that may occur in glaciated regions over the coming decades. Here we report on observed changes in physical (temperature, turbidity), and chemical (dissolved and total nutrients) characteristics of mountain streams and the associated shifts in their diatom communities during de-glacierization. Shifts in habitat characteristics across gradients include changes in nutrient concentrations, light penetration, temperatures, and flow, all of which have led to distinct changes in diatom community composition. Importantly, glacial-fed rivers were 3-5 °C cooler than rivers without glacial contributions. Declines in glacial meltwater contribution to streams resulted in shifts in the timing of nutrient fluxes and lower concentrations of total phosphorus (TP), soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP), and higher dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and light penetration. The above set of conditions were linked to the overgrowth of the benthic diatom Didymosphenia geminata. These changes in stream condition and D. geminata colony development primarily occurred in streams with marginal (2-5%) to no glacier cover. Our data support a hypothesis that climate-induced changes in river hydrochemistry and physical condition lead to a phenological mismatch that favors D. geminata bloom development.
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- J Brahney
- Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, United States of America.
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- Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7, Canada
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- Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, United States of America
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- Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, United States of America
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- Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, United States of America
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- Geography Program and Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC V6T 1Z9, Canada
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- Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
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Elser JJ, Wu C, González AL, Shain DH, Smith HJ, Sommaruga R, Williamson CE, Brahney J, Hotaling S, Vanderwall J, Yu J, Aizen V, Aizen E, Battin TJ, Camassa R, Feng X, Jiang H, Lu L, Qu JJ, Ren Z, Wen J, Wen L, Woods HA, Xiong X, Xu J, Yu G, Harper JT, Saros JE. Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2020; 26:6644-6656. [PMID: 32969121 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Alpine regions are changing rapidly due to loss of snow and ice in response to ongoing climate change. While studies have documented ecological responses in alpine lakes and streams to these changes, our ability to predict such outcomes is limited. We propose that the application of fundamental rules of life can help develop necessary predictive frameworks. We focus on four key rules of life and their interactions: the temperature dependence of biotic processes from enzymes to evolution; the wavelength dependence of the effects of solar radiation on biological and ecological processes; the ramifications of the non-arbitrary elemental stoichiometry of life; and maximization of limiting resource use efficiency across scales. As the cryosphere melts and thaws, alpine lakes and streams will experience major changes in temperature regimes, absolute and relative inputs of solar radiation in ultraviolet and photosynthetically active radiation, and relative supplies of resources (e.g., carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus), leading to nonlinear and interactive effects on particular biota, as well as on community and ecosystem properties. We propose that applying these key rules of life to cryosphere-influenced ecosystems will reduce uncertainties about the impacts of global change and help develop an integrated global view of rapidly changing alpine environments. However, doing so will require intensive interdisciplinary collaboration and international cooperation. More broadly, the alpine cryosphere is an example of a system where improving our understanding of mechanistic underpinnings of living systems might transform our ability to predict and mitigate the impacts of ongoing global change across the daunting scope of diversity in Earth's biota and environments.
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- James J Elser
- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Biology & Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA
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- Department of Biology & Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA
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- Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Lake and Glacier Research Group, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
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- Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
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- Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Laboratory, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Mathematics, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Lab of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Global Environment and Natural Resources Institute (GENRI) and Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science (GGS), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT, USA
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- Sichuan Key Laboratory of Plateau Atmosphere and Environment, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chendu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Land Surface Process and Climate Change in Cold and Arid Region, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- School of Biology and Ecology, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Schenone L, Balseiro EG, Bastidas Navarro M, Modenutti BE. Modelling the consequence of glacier retreat on mixotrophic nanoflagellate bacterivory: a Bayesian approach. OIKOS 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.07170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Luca Schenone
- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA (CONICET‐UNCo), Quintral 1250 San Carlos de Bariloche (8400) Río Negro Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA (CONICET‐UNCo), Quintral 1250 San Carlos de Bariloche (8400) Río Negro Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA (CONICET‐UNCo), Quintral 1250 San Carlos de Bariloche (8400) Río Negro Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Limnología, INIBIOMA (CONICET‐UNCo), Quintral 1250 San Carlos de Bariloche (8400) Río Negro Argentina
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Michelutti N, Douglas MSV, Antoniades D, Lehnherr I, St Louis VL, St Pierre K, Muir DCG, Brunskill G, Smol JP. Contrasting the ecological effects of decreasing ice cover versus accelerated glacial melt on the High Arctic's largest lake. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20201185. [PMID: 32576110 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Lake Hazen, the High Arctic's largest lake, has received an approximately 10-fold increase in glacial meltwater since its catchment glaciers shifted from net mass gain to net mass loss in 2007 common era (CE), concurrent with recent warming. Increased glacial meltwater can alter the ecological functioning of recipient aquatic ecosystems via changes to nutrient budgets, turbidity and thermal regimes. Here, we examine a rare set of five high-resolution sediment cores collected in Lake Hazen between 1990 and 2017 CE to investigate the influence of increased glacial meltwater versus alterations to lake ice phenology on ecological change. Subfossil diatom assemblages in all cores show two major shifts over the past approximately 200 years including: (i) a proliferation of pioneering, benthic taxa at approximately 1900 CE from previously depauperate populations; and (ii) a rise in planktonic taxa beginning at approximately 1980 CE to present-day dominance. The topmost intervals from each sequentially collected core provide exact dates and demonstrate that diatom regime shifts occurred decades prior to accelerated glacial inputs. These data show that diatom assemblages in Lake Hazen are responding primarily to intrinsic lake factors linked to decreasing duration of lake ice and snow cover rather than to limnological impacts associated with increased glacial runoff.
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- Neal Michelutti
- Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Département de Géographie and Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada G1V 0A6
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- Department of Geography, University of Toronto-Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9
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- The University of British Columbia, AERL, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
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- Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7S 1A1
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- 84 Alligator Creek Road, Alligator Creek, Queensland 4816, Australia
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- Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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Burpee BT, Saros JE. Cross-ecosystem nutrient subsidies in Arctic and alpine lakes: implications of global change for remote lakes. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. PROCESSES & IMPACTS 2020; 22:1166-1189. [PMID: 32159183 DOI: 10.1039/c9em00528e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Environmental change is continuing to affect the flow of nutrients, material and organisms across ecosystem boundaries. These cross-system flows are termed ecosystem subsidies. Here, we synthesize current knowledge of cross-ecosystem nutrient subsidies between remote lakes and their surrounding terrain, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Remote Arctic and alpine lakes are ideal systems to study the effects of cross ecosystem subsidies because (a) they are positioned in locations experiencing rapid environmental changes, (b) they are ecologically sensitive to even small subsidy changes, (c) they have easily defined ecosystem boundaries, and (d) a variety of standard methods exist that allow for quantification of lake subsidies and their impacts on ecological communities and ecosystem functions. We highlight similarities and differences between Arctic and alpine systems and identify current knowledge gaps to be addressed with future work. It is important to understand the dynamics of nutrient and material flows between lakes and their environments in order to improve our ability to predict ecosystem responses to continued environmental change.
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- Benjamin T Burpee
- Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
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Hu Y, Yao X, Wu Y, Han W, Zhou Y, Tang X, Shao K, Gao G. Contrasting Patterns of the Bacterial Communities in Melting Ponds and Periglacial Rivers of the Zhuxi glacier in the Tibet Plateau. Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8040509. [PMID: 32252494 PMCID: PMC7232332 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8040509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Revised: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Since the early 21st century, global climate change has been inducing rapid glacier retreat at an unprecedented rate. In this context, the melt ponds impart increasing unique footprints on the periglacial rivers due to their hydrodynamic connection. Given that bacterial communities control numerous ecosystem processes in the glacial ecosystem, exploring the fate of bacterial communities from melt ponds to periglacial rivers yields key knowledge of the biodiversity and biogeochemistry of glacial ecosystems. Here, we analyzed the bacterial community structure, diversity, and co-occurrence network to reveal the community organization in the Zhuxi glacier in the Tibet Plateau. The results showed that the bacterial communities in melt ponds were significantly lower in alpha-diversity but were significantly higher in beta-diversity than those in periglacial rivers. The rare sub-communities significantly contributed to the stability of the bacterial communities in both habitats. The co-occurrence network inferred that the mutually beneficial relationships predominated in the two networks. Nevertheless, the lower ratio of positive to negative edges in melt ponds than periglacial rivers implicated fiercer competition in the former habitat. Based on the significantly higher value of degree, betweenness, and modules, as well as shorter average path length in melt ponds, we speculated that their bacterial communities are less resilient than those of periglacial rivers.
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- Yang Hu
- Taihu Laboratory for Lake Ecosystem Research, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;
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- School of Environment and Planning, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 25200, China
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- Sino-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection, Beijing 100029, China
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- Sino-Japan Friendship Center for Environmental Protection, Beijing 100029, China
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- Taihu Laboratory for Lake Ecosystem Research, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;
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- Taihu Laboratory for Lake Ecosystem Research, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;
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- Taihu Laboratory for Lake Ecosystem Research, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;
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- Taihu Laboratory for Lake Ecosystem Research, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: (+86) 25 86882187; Fax: (+86) 25 86882187
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Tiberti R, Buscaglia F, Callieri C, Rogora M, Tartari G, Sommaruga R. Food Web Complexity of High Mountain Lakes is Largely Affected by Glacial Retreat. Ecosystems 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-019-00457-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Ren Z, Martyniuk N, Oleksy IA, Swain A, Hotaling S. Ecological Stoichiometry of the Mountain Cryosphere. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Wadham JL, Hawkings JR, Tarasov L, Gregoire LJ, Spencer RGM, Gutjahr M, Ridgwell A, Kohfeld KE. Ice sheets matter for the global carbon cycle. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3567. [PMID: 31417076 PMCID: PMC6695407 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11394-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The cycling of carbon on Earth exerts a fundamental influence upon the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere, and hence global climate over millennia. Until recently, ice sheets were viewed as inert components of this cycle and largely disregarded in global models. Research in the past decade has transformed this view, demonstrating the existence of uniquely adapted microbial communities, high rates of biogeochemical/physical weathering in ice sheets and storage and cycling of organic carbon (>104 Pg C) and nutrients. Here we assess the active role of ice sheets in the global carbon cycle and potential ramifications of enhanced melt and ice discharge in a warming world.
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- J L Wadham
- University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK.
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- National High Magnetic Field Lab and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
- German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, 14473, Potsdam, Germany
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- Memorial University, St. John's, NF, A1B 3X9, Canada
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- National High Magnetic Field Lab and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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- University of California, Riverside, CA, 94720, USA
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- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 8888, Canada
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Brighenti S, Tolotti M, Bruno MC, Wharton G, Pusch MT, Bertoldi W. Ecosystem shifts in Alpine streams under glacier retreat and rock glacier thaw: A review. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 675:542-559. [PMID: 31030160 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2018] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This review provides a detailed synthesis of the effects of glacier retreat and permafrost thaw on stream ecosystems in the European Alps. As a working framework, we present a conceptual model developed from an integration of current knowledge and understanding of the habitat and ecological shifts in Alpine streams caused by deglaciation. In our work, we depict how climate change and the loss of cryosphere trigger complex cascading effects on Alpine hydrology, as the main water sources shift from snow and glaciers to rock glaciers, groundwater, and precipitation. The associated changes in habitat conditions, such as channel stability, turbidity, temperature, nutrient loadings, and concentrations of legacy pollutants and trace elements are identified. These changes are followed by complex ecological shifts in the stream communities (microbial community, primary producers, invertebrates) and food webs, with a predicted loss of biotic diversity. Corresponding increases in taxa abundances, biomass, functional diversity, and in the complexity of food webs, are predicted to occur in the upper reaches of Alpine catchments in response to ameliorating climatic and habitat conditions. Finally, current knowledge gaps are highlighted as a basis for framing future research agendas. In particular, we call for an improved understanding of permafrost influence on Alpine headwaters, including the ecology of rock-glacier fed streams, as these streams are likely to become increasingly important for water supply in many glacier-free Alpine valleys in the near future.
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- Stefano Brighenti
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, TN, Italy; Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, TN, Italy
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- Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, TN, Italy
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- Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, TN, Italy.
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- School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, TN, Italy
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Li A, Aubeneau AF, King T, Cory RM, Neilson BT, Bolster D, Packman AI. Effects of vertical hydrodynamic mixing on photomineralization of dissolved organic carbon in arctic surface waters. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. PROCESSES & IMPACTS 2019; 21:748-760. [PMID: 30907904 DOI: 10.1039/c8em00455b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Photomineralization, the transformation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to CO2 by sunlight, is an important source of CO2 in arctic surface waters. However, quantifying the role of photomineralization in inland waters is limited by the understanding of hydrologic controls on this process. To bridge this gap, this study evaluates mixing limitations, i.e., whether and by how much vertical mixing limits the depth-integrated photomineralization rate, in freshwater systems. We developed a conceptual model to qualitatively assess mixing limitations across the range of light attenuation and hydrologic conditions observed in freshwaters. For the common case of exponential light attenuation over depth, we developed a mathematical model to quantify mixing limitation, and used this model to assess a range of arctic freshwater systems. The results demonstrate that mixing limitations are important when there is significant light attenuation by suspended sediment (SS), which is the case in some arctic, boreal and temperate waters. Mixing limitation is pronounced when light attenuation over depth is strong and when the photomineralization rate at the water surface exceeds the vertical mixing rate. Arctic streams and rivers have strong vertical mixing relative to surface photomineralization, such that model results demonstrate no mixing limitation regardless of how much SS is present. Our analysis indicates that well-mixed assumptions used in prior work are valid in many, but not all, arctic surface waters. The effects of mixing limitations in reducing the photomineralization rate must be considered in arctic lakes with high SS concentrations.
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- Angang Li
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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Pastick NJ, Jorgenson MT, Goetz SJ, Jones BM, Wylie BK, Minsley BJ, Genet H, Knight JF, Swanson DK, Jorgenson JC. Spatiotemporal remote sensing of ecosystem change and causation across Alaska. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2019; 25:1171-1189. [PMID: 29808518 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Contemporary climate change in Alaska has resulted in amplified rates of press and pulse disturbances that drive ecosystem change with significant consequences for socio-environmental systems. Despite the vulnerability of Arctic and boreal landscapes to change, little has been done to characterize landscape change and associated drivers across northern high-latitude ecosystems. Here we characterize the historical sensitivity of Alaska's ecosystems to environmental change and anthropogenic disturbances using expert knowledge, remote sensing data, and spatiotemporal analyses and modeling. Time-series analysis of moderate-and high-resolution imagery was used to characterize land- and water-surface dynamics across Alaska. Some 430,000 interpretations of ecological and geomorphological change were made using historical air photos and satellite imagery, and corroborate land-surface greening, browning, and wetness/moisture trend parameters derived from peak-growing season Landsat imagery acquired from 1984 to 2015. The time series of change metrics, together with climatic data and maps of landscape characteristics, were incorporated into a modeling framework for mapping and understanding of drivers of change throughout Alaska. According to our analysis, approximately 13% (~174,000 ± 8700 km2 ) of Alaska has experienced directional change in the last 32 years (±95% confidence intervals). At the ecoregions level, substantial increases in remotely sensed vegetation productivity were most pronounced in western and northern foothills of Alaska, which is explained by vegetation growth associated with increasing air temperatures. Significant browning trends were largely the result of recent wildfires in interior Alaska, but browning trends are also driven by increases in evaporative demand and surface-water gains that have predominately occurred over warming permafrost landscapes. Increased rates of photosynthetic activity are associated with stabilization and recovery processes following wildfire, timber harvesting, insect damage, thermokarst, glacial retreat, and lake infilling and drainage events. Our results fill a critical gap in the understanding of historical and potential future trajectories of change in northern high-latitude regions.
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- Neal J Pastick
- Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey), Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
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- School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
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- Alaska Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska
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- Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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- Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska
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- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fairbanks, Alaska
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Liu K, Liu Y, Han BP, Xu B, Zhu L, Ju J, Jiao N, Xiong J. Bacterial community changes in a glacial-fed Tibetan lake are correlated with glacial melting. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 651:2059-2067. [PMID: 30321727 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Revised: 10/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Climate change-induced glacial melting is a global phenomenon. The effects of climate change-induced melting on the microbial ecology in different glacial-fed aquatic systems have been well illuminated, but the resolution of seasonal dynamics was still limited. Here, we studied bacterial community composition and diversity in a glacial-fed Tibetan lake, Lake Ranwu, to elucidate how glacial-fed aquatic ecosystems respond to the seasonal glacial melting. Obvious seasonal variations of bacterial dominant groups were found in Lake Ranwu and inlet rivers. In April, the majority of OTUs belonged to the Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria. The Proteobacteria increased to the most abundant phylum in July and November, while the Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria decreased about 50% over seasons. Most key discriminant taxa of each season's community strongly associated with specific environmental variables, suggesting their adaptation to seasonal environments. Bacterial alpha diversity varied among seasons and exhibited strongly negative correlations with conductivity. Conductivity was the major driving force in determining the seasonal variation of bacterial community composition. Fluctuated conductivity was one of the consequences of seasonal melting of glaciers. This study offered evidence for the unique seasonal dynamics pattern of bacterial communities responding to glacial melting. Moreover, this study may provide a reference for assessing the long-term effects of glacial retreat on glacial-fed aquatic ecosystems.
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- Keshao Liu
- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, PR China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; Collaborative Innovation Center for Zhejiang Marine High-Efficiency and Healthy Aquaculture, Ningbo 315211, China
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Maat DS, Prins MA, Brussaard CPD. Sediments from Arctic Tide-Water Glaciers Remove Coastal Marine Viruses and Delay Host Infection. Viruses 2019; 11:E123. [PMID: 30704033 PMCID: PMC6409924 DOI: 10.3390/v11020123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Over the past few decades, the Arctic region has been strongly affected by global warming, leading to increased sea surface temperatures and melting of land and sea ice. Marine terminating (tide-water) glaciers are expected to show higher melting and calving rates, with an increase in the input of fine sediment particles in the coastal marine environment. We experimentally investigated whether marine viruses, which drive microbial interactions and biogeochemical cycling are removed from the water column through adsorption to glacier-delivered fine sediments. Ecologically relevant concentrations of 30, 100 and 200 mg·L-1 sediments were added to filtered lysates of 3 cultured algal viruses and to a natural marine bacterial virus community. Total virus removal increased with sediment concentration whereby the removal rate depended on the virus used (up to 88% for an Arctic algal virus), suggesting a different interaction strength with the sediment. Moreover, we observed that the adsorption of viruses to sediment is a reversible process, and that desorbed viruses are still able to infect their respective hosts. Nonetheless, the addition of sediment to infection experiments with the Arctic prasinovirus MpoV-45T substantially delayed host lysis and the production of progeny viruses. We demonstrate that glacier-derived fine sediments have the potency to alter virus availability and consequently, host population dynamics.
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- Douwe S Maat
- Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands.
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Symons CC, Schulhof MA, Cavalheri HB, Shurin JB. Antagonistic effects of temperature and dissolved organic carbon on fish growth in California mountain lakes. Oecologia 2018; 189:231-241. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4298-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Perga ME, Bruel R, Rodriguez L, Guénand Y, Bouffard D. Storm impacts on alpine lakes: Antecedent weather conditions matter more than the event intensity. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:5004-5016. [PMID: 29974996 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2018] [Revised: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Extreme weather events may be just as important as gradual trends for the long-term trajectories of ecosystems. For alpine lakes, which are exposed to both exacerbated atmospheric warming and intense episodic weather events, future conditions might not be appropriately forecast by only climate change trends, i.e. warming, if extreme events have the potential to deflect their thermal and metabolic states from their seasonal ranges. We used high-frequency monitoring data over three open-water seasons with a one-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the high-altitude Lake Muzelle (France) to show that rainstorms or windstorms, notwithstanding their intensity, did not trigger long-lasting consequences to the lake characteristics when light penetration into the lake was not modified. In contrast, storms associated with high turbidity input from the watershed ("turbid storms") strongly modified the lacustrine hydrodynamics and metabolism for the rest of the open-water season through reduced light penetration. The long-lasting effects of turbid storms were related to the inputs and in-lake persistence of very light glacial suspensoids from the watershed. The occurrence of the observed turbid storms was not related to the wind or rain intensities during the events. Instead, the turbid storms occurred after dry and atypically warm spells, i.e. meteorological conditions expected to be more frequent in this alpine region in the upcoming decades. Consequently, storm events, notwithstanding their intensity, are expected to strongly imprint the future ecological status of alpine lakes under climate warming.
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- Marie-Elodie Perga
- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- UMR CARRTEL, INRA-University Savoie Mont Blanc, Thonon les Bains, France
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- UMR CARRTEL, INRA-University Savoie Mont Blanc, Thonon les Bains, France
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- UMR CARRTEL, INRA-University Savoie Mont Blanc, Thonon les Bains, France
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- UMR CARRTEL, INRA-University Savoie Mont Blanc, Thonon les Bains, France
- SEGULA Technologies, Le Bourget du Lac, France
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- Department of Surface Waters Research and Management, Eawag-Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
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Ilyashuk BP, Ilyashuk EA, Psenner R, Tessadri R, Koinig KA. Rock glaciers in crystalline catchments: Hidden permafrost-related threats to alpine headwater lakes. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:1548-1562. [PMID: 29143490 PMCID: PMC5873409 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Revised: 10/24/2017] [Accepted: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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A global warming-induced transition from glacial to periglacial processes has been identified in mountainous regions around the world. Degrading permafrost in pristine periglacial environments can produce acid rock drainage (ARD) and cause severe ecological damage in areas underlain by sulfide-bearing bedrock. Limnological and paleolimnological approaches were used to assess and compare ARDs generated by rock glaciers, a typical landform of the mountain permafrost domain, and their effects on alpine headwater lakes with similar morphometric features and underlying bedrock geology, but characterized by different intensities of frost action in their catchments during the year. We argue that ARD and its effects on lakes are more severe in the alpine periglacial belt with mean annual air temperatures (MAAT) between -2°C and +3°C, where groundwater persists in the liquid phase for most of the year, in contrast to ARD in the periglacial belt where frost action dominates (MAAT < -2°C). The findings clearly suggest that the ambient air temperature is an important factor affecting the ARD production in alpine periglacial environments. Applying the paleoecological analysis of morphological abnormalities in chironomids through the past millennium, we tested and rejected the hypothesis that unfavorable conditions for aquatic life in the ARD-stressed lakes are largely related to the temperature increase over recent decades, responsible for the enhanced release of ARD contaminants. Our results indicate that the ARDs generated in the catchments are of a long-lasting nature and the frequency of chironomid morphological deformities was significantly higher during the Little Ice Age (LIA) than during pre- or post-LIA periods, suggesting that lower water temperatures may increase the adverse impacts of ARD on aquatic invertebrates. This highlights that temperature-mediated modulations of the metabolism and life cycle of aquatic organisms should be considered when reconstructing long-term trends in the ecotoxicological state of lakes.
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- Boris P. Ilyashuk
- Institute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
- Institute for Alpine EnvironmentEurac ResearchBozen/BolzanoItaly
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- Institute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
- Institute for Alpine EnvironmentEurac ResearchBozen/BolzanoItaly
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- Institute of Mineralogy and PetrographyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Institute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
- Institute for Alpine EnvironmentEurac ResearchBozen/BolzanoItaly
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Echeverría-Vega A, Chong G, Serrano AE, Guajardo M, Encalada O, Parro V, Blanco Y, Rivas L, Rose KC, Moreno-Paz M, Luque JA, Cabrol NA, Demergasso CS. Watershed-Induced Limnological and Microbial Status in Two Oligotrophic Andean Lakes Exposed to the Same Climatic Scenario. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:357. [PMID: 29556224 PMCID: PMC5844981 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Laguna Negra and Lo Encañado are two oligotrophic Andean lakes forming part of the system fed by meltwater from distinct glacial tongues of the Echaurren glacier in central Chile, which is in a recession period. The recent increase in temperature and decline in precipitation have led to an increase of glacial meltwater and sediments entering these lakes. Although the lacustrine systems are also hydrogeologically connected, the limnology of the lakes is strongly controlled by the surface processes related to the respective sub-watersheds and hydrology. Watershed characteristics (area and length, slope, lithology, resistance to erosion, among others) affect the chemical and physical characteristics of both lakes (e.g., nutrient concentration and turbidity). We studied physical and chemical variables and performed 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to determine the specific microbial signature of the lakes. The transparency, temperature, turbidity and concentrations of chlorophyll-a, dissolved organic matter, nutrients and the total number of cells, revealed the different status of both lakes at the time of sampling. The predominant bacterial groups in both lakes were Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Bacteroidetes. Interestingly, the contribution of phototrophs was significantly higher in LN compared to LE (13 and 4% respectively) and the major fraction corresponded to Anoxygenic Phototrophs (AP) represented by Chloroflexi, Alpha, and Betaproteobacteria. Multivariate analyses showed that the nutrient levels and the light availability of both lakes, which finally depend on the hydrological characteristics of the respective watersheds, explain the differential community composition/function. The abundance of a diverse photoheterotrophic bacterioplankton community suggests that the ability to utilize solar energy along with organic and inorganic substrates is a key function in these oligotrophic mountain lakes.
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- Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica de Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Centro de Biotecnología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Centro de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica para la Minería, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Centro de Biotecnología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States
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- Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica de Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.,Centro de Investigación Tecnológica del Agua en el Desierto (CEITSAZA), Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States.,Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
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Peter H, Jeppesen E, De Meester L, Sommaruga R. Changes in bacterioplankton community structure during early lake ontogeny resulting from the retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet. THE ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:544-555. [PMID: 29087379 PMCID: PMC5776470 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Retreating glaciers and ice sheets are among the clearest signs of global climate change. One consequence of glacier retreat is the formation of new meltwater-lakes in previously ice-covered terrain. These lakes provide unique opportunities to understand patterns in community organization during early lake ontogeny. Here, we analyzed the bacterial community structure and diversity in six lakes recently formed by the retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). The lakes represented a turbidity gradient depending on their past and present connectivity to the GrIS meltwaters. Bulk (16S rRNA genes) and putatively active (16S rRNA) fractions of the bacterioplankton communities were structured by changes in environmental conditions associated to the turbidity gradient. Differences in community structure among lakes were attributed to both, rare and abundant community members. Further, positive co-occurrence relationships among phylogenetically closely related community members dominate in these lakes. Our results show that environmental conditions along the turbidity gradient structure bacterial community composition, which shifts during lake ontogeny. Rare taxa contribute to these shifts, suggesting that the rare biosphere has an important ecological role during early lakes ontogeny. Members of the rare biosphere may be adapted to the transient niches in these nutrient poor lakes. The directionality and phylogenetic structure of co-occurrence relationships indicate that competitive interactions among closely related taxa may be important in the most turbid lakes.
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- Hannes Peter
- Institute of Ecology, Lake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- 5Present address: Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark
- Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory for Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of Ecology, Lake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Spinelli ML, Franzosi C, Olguin Salinas H, Capitanio FL, Alder VA. Appendicularians and copepods from Scotia Bay (Laurie island, South Orkney, Antarctica): fluctuations in community structure and diversity in two contrasting, consecutive summers. Polar Biol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-017-2227-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Kammerlander B, Tartarotti B, Sonntag B. The Impact of UV Radiation on Paramecium Populations from Alpine Lakes. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2017; 65:250-254. [PMID: 28833929 PMCID: PMC5888136 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Paramecium populations from a clear and a glacier‐fed turbid alpine lake were exposed to solar simulated ultraviolet (UVR) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) at 8 and 15 °C. The ciliates were tested for DNA damage (comet assay), behavioral changes, and mortality after UVR + PAR exposure. High DNA damage levels (~58% tail DNA) and abnormal swimming behavior were observed, although no significant changes in cell numbers were found irrespective of the lake origin (clear, turbid), and temperatures. We conclude that environmental stressors such as UVR and their effects may influence the adaptation of ciliates living in alpine lakes.
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- Barbara Kammerlander
- Lake and Glacier Research Group, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria.,Ciliate Ecology and Taxonomy Group, Research Department for Limnology, Mondsee, University of Innsbruck, Mondseestrasse 9, Mondsee, 5310, Austria
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- Lake and Glacier Research Group, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
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- Ciliate Ecology and Taxonomy Group, Research Department for Limnology, Mondsee, University of Innsbruck, Mondseestrasse 9, Mondsee, 5310, Austria
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Distribution and UV protection strategies of zooplankton in clear and glacier-fed alpine lakes. Sci Rep 2017; 7:4487. [PMID: 28674434 PMCID: PMC5495746 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04836-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Zooplankton, a group of aquatic animals important as trophic link in the food web, are exposed to high levels of UV radiation (UVR) in clear alpine lakes, while in turbid glacier-fed lakes they are more protected. To study the interplay between behavioral and physiological protection responses in zooplankton from those lakes, we sampled six lakes of different UVR transparency and glacial turbidity. Copepods were absent in the upper water layers of the clearest lake, while in glacier-fed lakes they were more evenly distributed in the water column. Across all lakes, the weighted copepod mean depth was strongly related to food resources (chlorophyll a and rotifers), whereas in the fishless lakes, glacial turbidity largely explained the vertical daytime distribution of these organisms. Up to ~11-times (mean 3.5) higher concentrations of photo-protective compounds (mycosporine-like amino acids, MAAs) were found in the copepods from the clear than from the glacier-fed lakes. In contrast to carotenoid concentrations and antioxidant capacities, MAA levels were strongly related to the lake transparency. Copepods from alpine lakes rely on a combination of behavioral and physiological strategies adapted to the change in environmental conditions taking place when lakes shift from glacially turbid to clear conditions, as glacier retreat proceeds.
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Environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change: Progress report, 2016. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2017; 16:107-145. [PMID: 28124708 PMCID: PMC6400464 DOI: 10.1039/c7pp90001e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The Parties to the Montreal Protocol are informed by three Panels of experts. One of these is the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP), which deals with two focal issues. The first focus is the effects of UV radiation on human health, animals, plants, biogeochemistry, air quality, and materials. The second focus is on interactions between UV radiation and global climate change and how these may affect humans and the environment. When considering the effects of climate change, it has become clear that processes resulting in changes in stratospheric ozone are more complex than previously believed. As a result of this, human health and environmental issues will be longer-lasting and more regionally variable. Like the other Panels, the EEAP produces a detailed report every four years; the most recent was published as a series of seven papers in 2015 (Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2015, 14, 1-184). In the years in between, the EEAP produces less detailed and shorter Progress Reports of the relevant scientific findings. The most recent of these was for 2015 (Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2016, 15, 141-147). The present Progress Report for 2016 assesses some of the highlights and new insights with regard to the interactive nature of the direct and indirect effects of UV radiation, atmospheric processes, and climate change. The more detailed Quadrennial Assessment will be made available in 2018.
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Farkas J, Altin D, Hammer KM, Hellstrøm KC, Booth AM, Hansen BH. Characterisation of fine-grained tailings from a marble processing plant and their acute effects on the copepod Calanus finmarchicus. CHEMOSPHERE 2017; 169:700-708. [PMID: 27914355 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.11.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Submarine tailing disposal (STD) of mining waste is practiced as an alternative to land fill disposal in several countries. Knowledge regarding the environmental implications of STD on fjord and other marine ecosystems, including the pelagic environment, is scarce. In this study, we characterised the particle shape, size and metal content of the fine-grained fraction of tailings (FGT) from a Norwegian marble processing plant and investigated their acute toxicity and impact on feeding rate in adult Calanus finmarchicus. Initial tailing dispersions with a concentration of 1 mg mL-1 contained approximately 72 million particles, with 62% of particles between 0.6 and 1 μm in size. After a sedimentation time of 1 h, 69% of the particles between 0.6 and 5 μm remained dispersed, decreasing to 22% after 6 h. When subjected to low energy turbulence in exposure experiments, the formation of fragile agglomerates was observed. The FGT contained Al, Mn, Fe and Ni, with no detectable dissolution occurring during the 48 h exposure period. Acute exposure (up to 5 g L-1) to FGT caused no mortality in C. finmarchicus. Similarly, feeding rates determined during a 40 h depuration period, were not significantly impacted. However, surface attachment and uptake of FGT into the digestive tract of the copepods was observed. This indicates that, whilst marble FGT are not acutely toxic to copepods, chronic effects such as impacts on organism's energy budgets could occur, highlighting the need for further research on potential sublethal effects in organisms exposed to fine inorganic particles.
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- Julia Farkas
- SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Marine Environmental Technology, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway.
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- SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Marine Environmental Technology, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway
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- SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Marine Environmental Technology, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway
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- SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Marine Environmental Technology, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway
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- SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Marine Environmental Technology, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway
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Peter H, Sommaruga R. Alpine glacier-fed turbid lakes are discontinuous cold polymictic rather than dimictic. INLAND WATERS : JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF LIMNOLOGY 2017; 7:45-54. [PMID: 28690780 PMCID: PMC5478930 DOI: 10.1080/20442041.2017.1294346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Glacier retreat as a consequence of climate change influences freshwater ecosystems in manifold ways, yet the physical and chemical bases of these effects are poorly studied. Here, we characterize how water temperature differs between alpine lakes with and without direct glacier influence on seasonal and diurnal timescales. Using high temporal resolution monitoring of temperature in 4 lakes located in a catchment influenced by glacier retreat, we reported unexpectedly high surface temperatures, even in proglacial lakes located 2600 m a.s.l. Cold glacier meltwater and low nighttime air temperatures caused a distinct diurnal pattern of water temperature in the water column of glacier-influenced lakes. Precipitation onto glacier surfaces apparently leads to rapid cooling of the glacier-fed lakes and disrupts the thermal stratification with several mixing events during the summer. Taken together, these mechanisms contribute to the unique seasonal and diurnal dynamics of glacier-influenced lakes that contrast with the typical dimictic pattern of clear alpine lakes and represent an example of discontinuous cold polymictic lake type. This work contributes to the basic description of how climate and meteorology affect the physical properties of an increasingly common lake type.
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- Hannes Peter
- Institute of Ecology, Lake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Research Laboratory, Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Corresponding author:
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- Institute of Ecology, Lake and Glacier Ecology Research Group, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Diatom communities in the High Arctic aquatic habitats of northern Spitsbergen (Svalbard). Polar Biol 2017; 40:873-890. [PMID: 32226209 PMCID: PMC7089652 DOI: 10.1007/s00300-016-2014-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2015] [Revised: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 07/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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As High Arctic environments are particularly sensitive to global and regional climate changes, a growing number of studies have focused on that region. It has been shown that living and fossil diatoms can be successfully used to track environmental changes in polar habitats. Nevertheless, the diatom flora of many Arctic areas remains unknown. The present study set out to examine the diatom flora in the rarely visited and near-pristine zone of northern Spitsbergen. Examination by light and scanning electron microscopy of 25 sediment samples, collected in fjords, tidal plains and lakes, indicated significant differences between the diatom assemblages identified in lakes located within different fjord watersheds. Altogether, 96 diatom taxa (46 genera) were found. The most abundant species (Achnanthidium minutissimum, Staurosirella pinnata and Nitzschia alpina) occurred in at least eight of the 11 investigated lakes. Assemblages from the Woodfjorden region were characterized by the presence of Cavinula pseudoscutiformis and Encyonema reichardtii, along with Navicula spp., which coincided with relatively low conductivity (34–58.7 µS cm−1) and near-neutral pH (7.2–7.5). Diatom assemblages found in the Wijdefjorden area were typically characterized by Denticula kuetzingii and Nitzschia inconspicua, with these lakes generally having higher water conductivity (>184 µS cm−1) and pH (7.5–8.1) conditions. Conductivity, biogenic silica concentration and water temperature were indicated as significant predictors of diatom community species composition and structure. No diatom frustules were found in fjord and tidal plain sediments. The effects of selected environmental factors on diatom assemblage formation are discussed.
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Haileselasie TH, Mergeay J, Weider LJ, Sommaruga R, Davidson TA, Meerhoff M, Arndt H, Jürgens K, Jeppesen E, De Meester L. Environment not dispersal limitation drives clonal composition of Arctic Daphnia in a recently deglaciated area. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:5830-5842. [PMID: 27662259 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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One of the most prominent manifestations of the ongoing climate warming is the retreat of glaciers and ice sheets around the world. Retreating glaciers result in the formation of new ponds and lakes, which are available for colonization. The gradual appearance of these new habitat patches allows us to determine to what extent the composition of asexual Daphnia (water flea) populations is affected by environmental drivers vs. dispersal limitation. Here, we used a landscape genetics approach to assess the processes structuring the clonal composition of species in the D. pulex species complex that have colonized periglacial habitats created by ice-sheet retreat in western Greenland. We analysed 61 populations from a young (<50 years) and an old cluster (>150 years) of lakes and ponds. We identified 42 asexual clones that varied widely in spatial distribution. Beta-diversity was higher among older than among younger systems. Lineage sorting by the environment explained 14% of the variation in clonal composition whereas the pure effect of geographical distance was very small and statistically insignificant (Radj2 = 0.010, P = 0.085). Dispersal limitation did not seem important, even among young habitat patches. The observation of several tens of clones colonizing the area combined with environmentally driven clonal composition of populations illustrates that population assembly of asexual species in the Arctic is structured by environmental gradients reflecting differences in the ecology of clones.
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- Tsegazeabe H Haileselasie
- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences (CNCS), Mekelle University, P.O.Box: 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Gaverstraat 4, Geraardsbergen, 9500, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73071, USA
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- Lake and Glacier Research Group, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, Silkeborg, 8600, Denmark
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- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, Silkeborg, 8600, Denmark.,Department of Ecology and Environmental Management, CURE-Faculty of Sciences, University of the Republic (Uruguay), Maldonado, 20000, Uruguay
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- Cologne Biocenter, Institute for Zoology, General Ecology, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str. 47b, D-50674, Köln, Germany
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- Biological Oceanography Department, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Seestrasse 15, D-18119, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, Silkeborg, 8600, Denmark.,Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 Zhongguancun South 1st Alley, Haidian District, 100190, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, KU Leuven, Ch. Deberiotstraat 32, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium
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Kammerlander B, Koinig KA, Rott E, Sommaruga R, Tartarotti B, Trattner F, Sonntag B. Ciliate community structure and interactions within the planktonic food web in two alpine lakes of contrasting transparency. FRESHWATER BIOLOGY 2016; 61:1950-1965. [PMID: 27840457 PMCID: PMC5082529 DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/05/2016] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Climate warming is accelerating the retreat of glaciers and recently, many 'new' glacial turbid lakes have been created. In the course of time, the loss of the hydrological connectivity to a glacier causes, however, changes in their water turbidity and turns these ecosystems into clear ones.To understand potential differences in the food-web structure between glacier-fed turbid and clear alpine lakes, we sampled ciliates, phyto-, bacterio- and zooplankton in one clear and one glacial turbid alpine lake, and measured key physicochemical parameters. In particular, we focused on the ciliate community and the potential drivers for their abundance distribution.In both lakes, the zooplankton community was similar and dominated by the copepod Cyclops abyssorum tatricus and rotifers including Polyarthra dolichoptera, Keratella hiemalis, Keratella cochlearis and Notholca squamula. The phytoplankton community structure differed and it was dominated by the planktonic diatom Fragilaria tenera and the cryptophyte alga Plagioselmis nannoplanctica in the glacial turbid lake, while chrysophytes and dinoflagellates were predominant in the clear one.Ciliate abundance and richness were higher in the glacial turbid lake (∼4000-27 800 Ind L-1, up to 29 species) than in the clear lake (∼570-7150 Ind L-1, up to eight species). The dominant species were Balanion planctonicum, Askenasia cf. chlorelligera, Urotricha cf. furcata and Mesodinium cf. acarus. The same species dominated in both lakes, except for Mesodinium cf. acarus and some particle-associated ciliates, which occurred exclusively in the glacial turbid lake. The relative underwater solar irradiance (i.e. percentage of PAR and UVR at depth) significantly explained their abundance distribution pattern, especially in the clear water lake. In the glacial turbid lake, the abundance of the dominating ciliate taxa was mainly explained by the presence of predatory zooplankton.Our results revealed an unexpected high abundance and richness of protists (algae, ciliates) in the glacial turbid lake. This type of lake likely offers more suitable environmental conditions and resource niches for protists than the clear and highly UV transparent lake.
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- Barbara Kammerlander
- Ciliate Ecology and Taxonomy GroupResearch Institute for LimnologyUniversity of InnsbruckMondseeAustria
- Lake and Glacier Research GroupInstitute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Lake and Glacier Research GroupInstitute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Research Group HydrobotanyInstitute of BotanyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Lake and Glacier Research GroupInstitute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Lake and Glacier Research GroupInstitute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Lake and Glacier Research GroupInstitute of EcologyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Ciliate Ecology and Taxonomy GroupResearch Institute for LimnologyUniversity of InnsbruckMondseeAustria
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