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Gomez M, Matamoros WA, Larre-Campuzano S, Yépez-Mulia L, De Fuentes-Vicente JA, Hoagstrom CW. Revised New World bioregions and environmental correlates for vectors of Chagas disease (Hemiptera, Triatominae). Acta Trop 2024; 249:107063. [PMID: 37944838 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.107063] [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: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
Abstract
The subfamily Triatominae includes a group of hematophagous insects, vectors of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is the etiological agent of Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis. Triatomines occur in the Old and New World and occupy diverse habitats including tropical and temperate areas. Some studies suggest the distributions of triatomines group into three or four regions. This study objectively determined bioregions focused specifically on New World Triatominae, using clustering and ordination analysis. We also identified indicator species by bioregion and investigated relationships among bioregions and environmental variables using redundancy analysis and multivariate regression trees. We delineated seven bioregions specific to Triatominae and linked each with indicator species. This result suggests more biogeographical structure exists than was revealed in earlier studies that were more general, subjective, and based on older taxonomic and distributional information. Precipitation, elevation, and vegetation were important variables in the delimitating bioregions. This implies that more detailed study of how these factors influence triatomine distributions could benefit understanding of how Chagas disease is spread.
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- Mireya Gomez
- Maestría en Ciencias en Biodiversidad y Conservación de Ecosistemas Tropicales, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Libramiento Norte Poniente, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas 29039, Mexico
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- Maestría en Ciencias en Biodiversidad y Conservación de Ecosistemas Tropicales, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Libramiento Norte Poniente, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas 29039, Mexico.
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- Maestría en Ciencias en Biodiversidad y Conservación de Ecosistemas Tropicales, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Libramiento Norte Poniente, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas 29039, Mexico
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- Unidad de Investigación Médica en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitarias, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad-Hospital de Pediatría, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Ciudad de México 06720, Mexico
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- Maestría en Ciencias en Biodiversidad y Conservación de Ecosistemas Tropicales, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Libramiento Norte Poniente, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas 29039, Mexico
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Searching for the Achilles heel(s) for maintaining invertebrate biodiversity across complexes of depressional wetlands. J Nat Conserv 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Epele LB, Grech MG, Williams-Subiza EA, Stenert C, McLean K, Greig HS, Maltchik L, Pires MM, Bird MS, Boissezon A, Boix D, Demierre E, García PE, Gascón S, Jeffries M, Kneitel JM, Loskutova O, Manzo LM, Mataloni G, Mlambo MC, Oertli B, Sala J, Scheibler EE, Wu H, Wissinger SA, Batzer DP. Perils of life on the edge: Climatic threats to global diversity patterns of wetland macroinvertebrates. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 820:153052. [PMID: 35063522 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Climate change is rapidly driving global biodiversity declines. How wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages are responding is unclear, a concern given their vital function in these ecosystems. Using a data set from 769 minimally impacted depressional wetlands across the globe (467 temporary and 302 permanent), we evaluated how temperature and precipitation (average, range, variability) affects the richness and beta diversity of 144 macroinvertebrate families. To test the effects of climatic predictors on macroinvertebrate diversity, we fitted generalized additive mixed-effects models (GAMM) for family richness and generalized dissimilarity models (GDMs) for total beta diversity. We found non-linear relationships between family richness, beta diversity, and climate. Maximum temperature was the main climatic driver of wetland macroinvertebrate richness and beta diversity, but precipitation seasonality was also important. Assemblage responses to climatic variables also depended on wetland water permanency. Permanent wetlands from warmer regions had higher family richness than temporary wetlands. Interestingly, wetlands in cooler and dry-warm regions had the lowest taxonomic richness, but both kinds of wetlands supported unique assemblages. Our study suggests that climate change will have multiple effects on wetlands and their macroinvertebrate diversity, mostly via increases in maximum temperature, but also through changes in patterns of precipitation. The most vulnerable wetlands to climate change are likely those located in warm-dry regions, where entire macroinvertebrate assemblages would be extirpated. Montane and high-latitude wetlands (i.e., cooler regions) are also vulnerable to climate change, but we do not expect entire extirpations at the family level.
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- Luis B Epele
- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CONICET-UNPSJB), Roca 780, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina.
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- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CONICET-UNPSJB), Roca 780, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CONICET-UNPSJB), Roca 780, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND, USA
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- School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04401, USA; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, CO 81224, USA
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, FURG, Av. Itália, Km 8, CEP 96.203-900 Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil
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- Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HEPIA, 150 route de Presinge, CH- 1254 Jussy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HEPIA, 150 route de Presinge, CH- 1254 Jussy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Grupo de Ecología de Sistemas Acuáticos a escala de Paisaje (GESAP) INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET, Quintral 1250, San Carlos de Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tune NE1 8ST, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University-Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95819-6077, USA
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- Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 28 Kommunisticheskaya Street, 167982 Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CONICET-UNPSJB), Roca 780, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigación e Ingeniería Ambiental -IIIA, UNSAM, CONICET, Campus Miguelete, 1650 San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Freshwater Invertebrates, Albany Museum, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HEPIA, 150 route de Presinge, CH- 1254 Jussy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Entomology Laboratory, IADIZA CCT Mendoza CONICET, Av. Adrián Ruiz Leal s/n, Parque General San Martín, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130012, China
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, CO 81224, USA; Biology and Environmental Science Departments, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Stehle S, Manfrin A, Feckler A, Graf T, Joschko TJ, Jupke J, Noss C, Rösch V, Schirmel J, Schmidt T, Zubrod JP, Schulz R. Structural and functional development of twelve newly established floodplain pond mesocosms. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8674. [PMID: 35309751 PMCID: PMC8902662 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Ecosystems are complex structures with interacting abiotic and biotic processes evolving with ongoing succession. However, limited knowledge exists on the very initial phase of ecosystem development and colonization. Here, we report results of a comprehensive ecosystem development monitoring for twelve floodplain pond mesocosms (FPM; 23.5 m × 7.5 m × 1.5 m each) located in south-western Germany. In total, 20 abiotic and biotic parameters, including structural and functional variables, were monitored for 21 months after establishment of the FPMs. The results showed evolving ecosystem development and primary succession in all FPMs, with fluctuating abiotic conditions over time. Principal component analyses and redundancy analyses revealed season and succession time (i.e., time since ecosystem establishment) to be significant drivers of changes in environmental conditions. Initial colonization of both aquatic (i.e., water bodies) and terrestrial (i.e., riparian land areas) parts of the pond ecosystems occurred within the first month, with subsequent season-specific increases in richness and abundance for aquatic and terrestrial taxa over the entire study period. Abiotic environmental conditions and aquatic and terrestrial communities showed increasing interpond variations over time, that is, increasing heterogeneity among the FPMs due to natural environmental divergence. However, both functional variables assessed (i.e., aquatic and terrestrial litter decomposition) showed opposite patterns as litter decomposition rates slightly decreased over time and interpond differences converged with successional ecosystem developments. Overall, our results provide rare insights into the abiotic and biotic conditions and processes during the initial stages of freshwater ecosystem formation, as well as into structural and functional developments of the aquatic and terrestrial environment of newly established pond ecosystems.
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- Sebastian Stehle
- Eusserthal Ecosystem Research StationUniversity Koblenz‐LandauEusserthalGermany
- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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- Eusserthal Ecosystem Research StationUniversity Koblenz‐LandauEusserthalGermany
- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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- Eusserthal Ecosystem Research StationUniversity Koblenz‐LandauEusserthalGermany
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- Eusserthal Ecosystem Research StationUniversity Koblenz‐LandauEusserthalGermany
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- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
- Federal Waterways Engineering and Research InstituteKarlsruheGermany
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- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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- Eusserthal Ecosystem Research StationUniversity Koblenz‐LandauEusserthalGermany
- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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- Eusserthal Ecosystem Research StationUniversity Koblenz‐LandauEusserthalGermany
- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
- Zubrod Environmental Data ScienceLandauGermany
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- Eusserthal Ecosystem Research StationUniversity Koblenz‐LandauEusserthalGermany
- iES LandauInstitute for Environmental SciencesUniversity Koblenz‐LandauLandauGermany
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Stenert C, Pires MM, Epele LB, Grech MG, Maltchik L, McLean KI, Mushet DM, Batzer DP. Climate- versus geographic-dependent patterns in the spatial distribution of macroinvertebrate assemblages in New World depressional wetlands. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2020; 26:6895-6903. [PMID: 32979885 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Analyses of biota at lower latitudes may presage impacts of climate change on biota at higher latitudes. Macroinvertebrate assemblages in depressional wetlands may be especially sensitive to climate change because weather-related precipitation and evapotranspiration are dominant ecological controls on habitats, and organisms of depressional wetlands are temperature-sensitive ectotherms. We aimed to better understand how wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages were structured according to geography and climate. To do so, we contrasted aquatic-macroinvertebrate assemblage structure (family level) between subtropical and temperate depressional wetlands of North and South America using presence-absence data from 264 of these habitats across the continents and more-detailed relative-abundance data from 56 depressional wetlands from four case-study locations (North Dakota and Georgia in North America; southern Brazil and Argentinian Patagonia in South America). Both data sets roughly partitioned wetland numbers equally between the two climatic zones and between the continents. We used ordination methods (PCA and NMDS) and tests of multivariate dispersion (PERMDISP) to assess the distribution and the homogeneity in variation in the composition of macroinvertebrate assemblages across climates and continents, respectively. We found that macroinvertebrate assemblage structures in the subtropical depressional wetlands of North and South America were similar to each other (at the family level), while assemblages in the North and South American temperate wetlands were unique from the subtropics, and from each other. Tests of homogeneity of multivariate dispersion indicated that family-level assemblage structures were more homogeneous in wetlands from the subtropical than the temperate zones. Our study suggests that ongoing climate change may result in the homogenization of macroinvertebrate assemblage structures in temperate zones of North and South America, with those assemblages becoming enveloped by assemblages from the subtropics. Biotic homogenization, more typically associated with other kinds of anthropogenic factors, may also be affected by climate change.
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- Cristina Stenert
- Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil
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- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CONICET-UNPSJB), Esquel, Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud, UNPSJB, Esquel, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CONICET-UNPSJB), Esquel, Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud, UNPSJB, Esquel, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Bacca RC, Pires MM, Moreira LFB, Stenert C, Maltchik L. The role of environmental and spatial factors in the assembly of aquatic insect communities in southern Brazilian temporary ponds. AUSTRAL ECOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Roberta Cozer Bacca
- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) 950 Unisinos av. São Leopoldo93022‐750Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) 950 Unisinos av. São Leopoldo93022‐750Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) 950 Unisinos av. São Leopoldo93022‐750Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) 950 Unisinos av. São Leopoldo93022‐750Brazil
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Rodríguez-Alcalá O, Blanco S, García-Girón J, Jeppesen E, Irvine K, Nõges P, Nõges T, Gross EM, Bécares E. Large-scale geographical and environmental drivers of shallow lake diatom metacommunities across Europe. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 707:135887. [PMID: 31862432 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Revised: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Disentangling the relative role of species sorting and dispersal limitation in biological communities has become one of the main issues for community ecologists and biogeographers. In this study, we analysed a data set of epiphytic diatoms comprising 34 lakes from six European countries. This data set covers a relatively large latitudinal gradient to elucidate which processes are affecting the distribution of diatom communities on a broad spatial extent. Our results show strong environmental effects on the composition of the diatom communities, while the spatial factor effects were weak, emphasising that compositional variation was mainly due to species turnover. Our data support information from the literature that local abiotic factors are the main predictors controlling the compositional variation of diatom assemblages in European shallow lakes. More specifically, changes in species composition were driven mainly by nutrient content in Northern Europe, whereas lakes located in Southern Europe were more affected by conductivity and lake depth. Our results solve pending questions in the spatial ecology of diatoms by proving that species turnover is stronger than nestedness at any spatial scale, and give support to the use of epiphytic diatoms as biological indicators for shallow lakes.
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- Omar Rodríguez-Alcalá
- Group for Limnology and Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Leon, 24071 Leon, Spain.
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- Group for Limnology and Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Leon, 24071 Leon, Spain
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- Group for Limnology and Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Leon, 24071 Leon, Spain
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- Department of Freshwater Ecology, National Environmental Research Institute, Vejlsøvej 25, DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
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- UNESCO-IHE, Department of Water Science and Engineering, Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft, PO Box 3015, 2601 Delft, the Netherlands
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- Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006 Tartu, Estonia
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- Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006 Tartu, Estonia
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- Université de Lorraine, LIEC UMR 7360 CNRS, Rue Général Delestraint, Bâtiment IBISE, 57070 Metz, Lorraine, France
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- Group for Limnology and Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Leon, 24071 Leon, Spain
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Dodds WK, Bruckerhoff L, Batzer D, Schechner A, Pennock C, Renner E, Tromboni F, Bigham K, Grieger S. The freshwater biome gradient framework: predicting macroscale properties based on latitude, altitude, and precipitation. Ecosphere 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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- Walter K. Dodds
- Division of Biology Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas 66506 USA
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- Department of Entomology University of Georgia Athens Georgia 30602 USA
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- Division of Biology Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas 66506 USA
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- Division of Biology Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas 66506 USA
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- Division of Biology Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas 66506 USA
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- Global Water Center and Biology Department University of Nevada Reno Nevada 89557 USA
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- Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas 66506 USA
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- School of the Environment Washington State University Vancouver Washington 98686 USA
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Rosset V, Ruhi A, Bogan MT, Datry T. Do lentic and lotic communities respond similarly to drying? Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Véronique Rosset
- Irstea Lyon; UR MALY. 5 rue de la Doua 69100 Villeurbanne France
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- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC); University of Maryland; Annapolis Maryland 21401 USA
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment; University of Arizona; 1064 E. Lowell Street Tucson Arizona 85716 USA
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- Irstea Lyon; UR MALY. 5 rue de la Doua 69100 Villeurbanne France
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Datry T, Vander Vorste R, Goïtia E, Moya N, Campero M, Rodriguez F, Zubieta J, Oberdorff T. Context-dependent resistance of freshwater invertebrate communities to drying. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:3201-3211. [PMID: 28480019 PMCID: PMC5415507 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2016] [Revised: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
More freshwater ecosystems are drying in response to global change thereby posing serious threat to freshwater biota and functions. The production of desiccation-resistant forms is an important adaptation that helps maintain biodiversity in temporary freshwaters by buffering communities from drying, but its potential to mitigate the negative effects of drying in freshwater ecosystems could vary greatly across regions and ecosystem types. We explored this context dependency by quantifying the potential contribution of desiccation-resistance forms to invertebrate community recovery across levels of regional drying prevalence (defined as the occurrence of drying events in freshwaters in a given region) and ecosystem types (lentic, lotic) in temporary neotropical freshwaters. We first predicted that regional drying prevalence influences the selection of species with desiccation-resistant forms from the regional species pools and thus increases the ability of communities to recover from drying. Second, we predicted lentic freshwaters harbor higher proportions of species with desiccation-resistant forms compared to lotic, in response to contrasted hydrologic connectivity. To test these predictions, we used natural experiments to quantify the contribution of desiccation-resistant forms to benthic invertebrate community recovery in nine intermittent streams and six geographically isolated temporary wetlands from three Bolivian regions differing in drying prevalence. The contribution of desiccation-resistant forms to community recovery was highest where regional drying prevalence was high, suggesting the species pool was adapted to regional disturbance regimes. The contribution of desiccation-resistant forms to community recovery was lower in streams than in wetlands, emphasizing the importance of hydrologic connectivity and associated recolonization processes from in-stream refuges to recovery in lotic systems. In all regions, the majority of functional traits were present in desiccation-resistant taxa indicating this adaptation may help maintain ecosystem functions by buffering communities from the loss of functional traits. Accounting for regional context and hydrologic connectivity in community recovery processes following drying can help refine predictions of freshwater biodiversity response to global change.
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- Thibault Datry
- IRSTEA UR-MALY centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne VILLEURBANNE Cedex France.,UMR "BOREA" CNRS 7208/IRD 207/MNHN/UPMC UNICAEN Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris Cedex France.,Unidad de Limnología y Recursos Acuáticos (ULRA) Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba Bolivia
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- IRSTEA UR-MALY centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne VILLEURBANNE Cedex France.,Present address: Virginia Water Resources Research Institute Virginia Tech Blacksburg VA USA
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- Unidad de Limnología y Recursos Acuáticos (ULRA) Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba Bolivia
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- Unidad de Limnología y Recursos Acuáticos (ULRA) Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba Bolivia.,UNIBOL Quechua "Casimiro Huanca" Chimoré Cochabamba Bolivia
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- Unidad de Limnología y Recursos Acuáticos (ULRA) Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba Bolivia
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- Unidad de Limnología y Recursos Acuáticos (ULRA) Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba Bolivia
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- Unidad de Limnología y Recursos Acuáticos (ULRA) Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba Bolivia
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- UMR "BOREA" CNRS 7208/IRD 207/MNHN/UPMC UNICAEN Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris Cedex France.,Unidad de Limnología y Recursos Acuáticos (ULRA) Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba Bolivia.,UMR 5174 EDB, CNRS, UPSENFA - Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse France
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Birkhofer K, Gossner MM, Diekötter T, Drees C, Ferlian O, Maraun M, Scheu S, Weisser WW, Wolters V, Wurst S, Zaitsev AS, Smith HG. Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and below-ground arthropod communities. J Anim Ecol 2017; 86:511-520. [PMID: 28118484 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2016] [Accepted: 01/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Along with the global decline of species richness goes a loss of ecological traits. Associated biotic homogenization of animal communities and narrowing of trait diversity threaten ecosystem functioning and human well-being. High management intensity is regarded as an important ecological filter, eliminating species that lack suitable adaptations. Below-ground arthropods are assumed to be less sensitive to such effects than above-ground arthropods. Here, we compared the impact of management intensity between (grassland vs. forest) and within land-use types (local management intensity) on the trait diversity and composition in below- and above-ground arthropod communities. We used data on 722 arthropod species living above-ground (Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera), primarily in soil (Chilopoda and Oribatida) or at the interface (Araneae and Carabidae). Our results show that trait diversity of arthropod communities is not primarily reduced by intense local land use, but is rather affected by differences between land-use types. Communities of Auchenorrhyncha and Chilopoda had significantly lower trait diversity in grassland habitats as compared to forests. Carabidae showed the opposite pattern with higher trait diversity in grasslands. Grasslands had a lower proportion of large Auchenorrhyncha and Carabidae individuals, whereas Chilopoda and Heteroptera individuals were larger in grasslands. Body size decreased with land-use intensity across taxa, but only in grasslands. The proportion of individuals with low mobility declined with land-use intensity in Araneae and Auchenorrhyncha, but increased in Chilopoda and grassland Heteroptera. The proportion of carnivorous individuals increased with land-use intensity in Heteroptera in forests and in Oribatida and Carabidae in grasslands. Our results suggest that gradients in management intensity across land-use types will not generally reduce trait diversity in multiple taxa, but will exert strong trait filtering within individual taxa. The observed patterns for trait filtering in individual taxa are not related to major classifications into above- and below-ground species. Instead, ecologically different taxa resembled each other in their trait diversity and compositional responses to land-use differences. These previously undescribed patterns offer an opportunity to develop management strategies for the conservation of trait diversity across taxonomic groups in permanent grassland and forest habitats.
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Affiliation(s)
- Klaus Birkhofer
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-223 62, Lund, Sweden.,Chair of Ecology, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 6, 03046, Cottbus, Germany
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- Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, DE-85354, Freising, Germany.,Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Landscape Ecology, Kiel University, Olshausenstr. 75, D-24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, D-20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Johannisallee 21, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Goettingen, Berliner Str. 28, D-37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Goettingen, Berliner Str. 28, D-37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, DE-85354, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Institut für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 1-3, D-14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-223 62, Lund, Sweden.,Centre of Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, SE-223 62, Lund, Sweden
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Kneitel JM. Climate‐driven habitat size determines the latitudinal diversity gradient in temporary ponds. Ecology 2016. [DOI: 10.1890/15-1584.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jamie M. Kneitel
- Department of Biological Sciences California State University Sacramento California 95819‐6077 USA
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Rouissi M, Boix D, Muller SD, Gascón S, Ruhí A, Sala J, Bouattour A, Ben Haj Jilani I, Ghrabi-Gammar Z, Ben Saad-Limam S, Daoud-Bouattour A. Spatio-temporal variability of faunal and floral assemblages in Mediterranean temporary wetlands. C R Biol 2014; 337:695-708. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2014.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2014] [Revised: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 09/27/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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