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Li B, Wang H, Lai A, Xue J, Wu Q, Yu C, Xie K, Mao Z, Li H, Xing P, Wu QL. Hydrogenotrophic pathway dominates methanogenesis along the river-estuary continuum of the Yangtze River. WATER RESEARCH 2023; 240:120096. [PMID: 37229838 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 05/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Rivers are considered as an important source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, but our understanding for the methanogenic pathway in rivers and its linkage with CH4 emission is very limited. Here, we investigated the diffusive flux of CH4 and its stable carbon isotope signature (δ13C-CH4) along the river-estuary continuum of the Yangtze River. The diffusive CH4 flux was estimated to 27.9 ± 11.4 μmol/m2/d and 36.5 ± 24.4 μmol/m2/d in wet season and dry season, respectively. The δ13C-CH4 values were generally lower than -60‰, with the fractionation factor (αc) higher than 1.055 and the isotope separation factor (εc) ranged from 55 to 100. In situ microbial composition showed that hydrogenotrophic methanogens accounts for over 70% of the total reads. Moreover, the incubation test showed that the headspace CH4 concentration by adding CO2/H2 to the sediment was orders of magnitude higher than that by adding trimethylamine and sodium acetate. These results jointly verified the river-estuary continuum is a minor CH4 source and dominated by hydrogenotrophic pathway. Based on the methanogenic pathway here and previous reported data in the same region, the historical variation of diffusive CH4 flux was calculated and results showed that CH4 emission has reduced 82.5% since the construction of Three Gorges Dam (TGD). Our study verified the dominant methanogenic pathway in river ecosystems and clarified the effect and mechanism of dam construction on riverine CH4 emission.
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- Biao Li
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Center for Evolution and Conservation Biology, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, 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, Beijing 100039, 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, Beijing 100039, China
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- School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, 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; College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, 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; College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, 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, Beijing 100039, 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, Beijing 100039, 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.
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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; Center for Evolution and Conservation Biology, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China; Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
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Ohkawara K, Tajiri H. Effects of grazing on underground parts of marsh plants by wintering Middendorf's bean goose
Anser fabalis middendorffii
: Its role as a keystone species in plant communities. Ecol Res 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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- Kyohsuke Ohkawara
- Ecological Laboratory, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology Kanazawa University Kanazawa Japan
- Ecological Laboratory, School of Biological Science and Technology Kanazawa University Kanazawa Japan
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Johnson OF, Panda A, Lishawa SC, Lawrence BA. Repeated large-scale mechanical treatment of invasive Typha under increasing water levels promotes floating mat formation and wetland methane emissions. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 790:147920. [PMID: 34380259 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147920] [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: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Invasive species management typically aims to promote diversity and wildlife habitat, but little is known about how management techniques affect wetland carbon (C) dynamics. Since wetland C uptake is largely influenced by water levels and highly productive plants, the interplay of hydrologic extremes and invasive species is fundamental to understanding and managing these ecosystems. During a period of rapid water level rise in the Laurentian Great Lakes, we tested how mechanical treatment of invasive plant Typha × glauca shifts plant-mediated wetland C metrics. From 2015 to 2017, we implemented large-scale treatment plots (0.36-ha) of harvest (i.e., cut above water surface, removed biomass twice a season), crush (i.e., ran over biomass once mid-season with a tracked vehicle), and Typha-dominated controls. Treated Typha regrew with approximately half as much biomass as unmanipulated controls each year, and Typha production in control stands increased from 500 to 1500 g-dry mass m-2 yr-1 with rising water levels (~10 to 75 cm) across five years. Harvested stands had total in-situ methane (CH4) flux rates twice as high as in controls, and this increase was likely via transport through cut stems because crushing did not change total CH4 flux. In 2018, one year after final treatment implementation, crushed stands had greater surface water diffusive CH4 flux rates than controls (measured using dissolved gas in water), likely due to anaerobic decomposition of flattened biomass. Legacy effects of treatments were evident in 2019; floating Typha mats were present only in harvested and crushed stands, with higher frequency in deeper water and a positive correlation with surface water diffusive CH4 flux. Our study demonstrates that two mechanical treatments have differential effects on Typha structure and consequent wetland CH4 emissions, suggesting that C-based responses and multi-year monitoring in variable water conditions are necessary to accurately assess how management impacts ecological function.
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- Olivia F Johnson
- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, 8711 37th St SE, Jamestown, ND 58401, USA; Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1376 Storrs Road Unit 4087, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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- School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- School of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University Chicago, 6349 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660, USA
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- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1376 Storrs Road Unit 4087, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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Bakker ES, Veen CGF, Ter Heerdt GJN, Huig N, Sarneel JM. High Grazing Pressure of Geese Threatens Conservation and Restoration of Reed Belts. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1649. [PMID: 30483297 PMCID: PMC6240796 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Reed (Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.) beds are important habitat for marsh birds, but are declining throughout Europe. Increasing numbers of the native marsh bird, the Greylag goose (Anser anser L.), are hypothesized to cause reed bed decline and inhibit restoration of reed beds, but data are largely lacking. In this study, we experimentally tested the effect of grazing by Greylag geese on the growth and expansion of reed growing in belts along lake shorelines. After 5 years of protecting reed from grazing with exclosures, reed stems were over 4-fold denser and taller than in the grazed plots. Grazing pressure was intense with 50-100% of the stems being grazed among years in the control plots open to grazing. After 5 years of protection we opened half of the exclosures and the geese immediately grazed almost 100% of the reed stems. Whereas this did not affect the reed stem density, the stem height was strongly reduced and similar to permanently grazed reed. The next year geese were actively chased away by management from mid-March to mid-June, which changed the maximum amount of geese from over 2300 to less than 50. As a result, reed stem density and height increased and the reed belt had recovered over the full 6 m length of the experimental plots. Lastly, we introduced reed plants in an adjacent lake where no reed was growing and geese did visit this area. After two years, the density of the planted reed was six to nine-fold higher and significantly taller in exclosures compared to control plots where geese had access to the reed plants. We conclude that there is a conservation dilemma regarding how to preserve and restore reed belts in the presence of high densities of Greylag geese as conservation of both reed belts and high goose numbers seems infeasible. We suggest that there are three possible solutions for this dilemma: (1) effects of the geese can be mediated by goose population management, (2) the robustness of the reed marshes can be increased, and (3) at the landscape level, spatial planning can be used to configure landscapes with large reed bed reserves surrounded by unmown, unfertilized meadows.
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- Elisabeth S. Bakker
- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Plant Ecophysiology Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Zuidam JP, Leeuwen CHA, Bakker ES, Verhoeven JTA, Ijff S, Peeters ETHM, Zuidam BG, Soons MB. Plant functional diversity and nutrient availability can improve restoration of floating fens via facilitation, complementarity and selection effects. J Appl Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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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- Jeroen P. Zuidam
- Ecology & Biodiversity GroupDepartment of BiologyUtrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
- Dutch Botanical Research Foundation (FLORON) Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Ecology & Biodiversity GroupDepartment of BiologyUtrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic EcologyNetherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO‐KNAW) Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Ecology & Biodiversity GroupDepartment of BiologyUtrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Deltares, Marine and Coastal Systems Delft The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management GroupWageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management GroupWageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Ecology & Biodiversity GroupDepartment of BiologyUtrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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Role of Scirpus mariqueter on Methane Emission from an Intertidal Saltmarsh of Yangtze Estuary. SUSTAINABILITY 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/su10041139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Schiesari L, Leibold MA, Burton GA. Metacommunities, metaecosystems and the environmental fate of chemical contaminants. J Appl Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Luis Schiesari
- Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
- Departamento de Ecologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
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- Department of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Austin TX USA
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- School for Environment and Sustainability University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI USA
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Batanero GL, León-Palmero E, Li L, Green AJ, Rendón-Martos M, Suttle CA, Reche I. Flamingos and drought as drivers of nutrients and microbial dynamics in a saline lake. Sci Rep 2017; 7:12173. [PMID: 28939867 PMCID: PMC5610251 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12462-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Waterbird aggregations and droughts affect nutrient and microbial dynamics in wetlands. We analysed the effects of high densities of flamingos on nutrients and microbial dynamics in a saline lake during a wet and a dry hydrological year, and explored the effects of guano on prokaryotic growth. Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon, total phosphorus and total nitrogen in the surface waters were 2–3 fold higher during the drought and were correlated with salinity. Flamingos stimulated prokaryotic heterotrophic production and triggered cascading effects on prokaryotic abundance, viruses and dissolved nitrogen. This stimulus of heterotrophic prokaryotes was associated with soluble phosphorus inputs from guano, and also from sediments. In the experiments, the specific growth rate and the carrying capacity were almost twice as high after guano addition than in the control treatments, and were coupled with soluble phosphorus assimilation. Flamingo guano was also rich in nitrogen. Dissolved N in lake water lagged behind the abundance of flamingos, but the causes of this lag are unclear. This study demonstrates that intense droughts could lead to increases in total nutrients in wetlands; however, microbial activity is likely constrained by the availability of soluble phosphorus, which appears to be more dependent on the abundance of waterbirds.
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- Gema L Batanero
- Departamento de Ecología e Instituto del Agua, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Instituto del Agua, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Ecología de Humedales, Estación Biológica de Doñana, EBD-CSIC, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Reserva Natural Laguna de Fuente de Piedra, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación del Territorio, Junta de Andalucía, Apartado 1, 29520 Fuente de Piedra, Málaga, Spain
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- Departments of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, and Botany, and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Departamento de Ecología e Instituto del Agua, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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Mueller P, Granse D, Nolte S, Do HT, Weingartner M, Hoth S, Jensen K. Top-down control of carbon sequestration: grazing affects microbial structure and function in salt marsh soils. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2017; 27:1435-1450. [PMID: 28317257 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2016] [Revised: 12/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Tidal wetlands have been increasingly recognized as long-term carbon sinks in recent years. Work on carbon sequestration and decomposition processes in tidal wetlands focused so far mainly on effects of global-change factors such as sea-level rise and increasing temperatures. However, little is known about effects of land use, such as livestock grazing, on organic matter decomposition and ultimately carbon sequestration. The present work aims at understanding the mechanisms by which large herbivores can affect organic matter decomposition in tidal wetlands. This was achieved by studying both direct animal-microbe interactions and indirect animal-plant-microbe interactions in grazed and ungrazed areas of two long-term experimental field sites at the German North Sea coast. We assessed bacterial and fungal gene abundance using quantitative PCR, as well as the activity of microbial exo-enzymes by conducting fluorometric assays. We demonstrate that grazing can have a profound impact on the microbial community structure of tidal wetland soils, by consistently increasing the fungi-to-bacteria ratio by 38-42%, and therefore potentially exerts important control over carbon turnover and sequestration. The observed shift in the microbial community was primarily driven by organic matter source, with higher contributions of recalcitrant autochthonous (terrestrial) vs. easily degradable allochthonous (marine) sources in grazed areas favoring relative fungal abundance. We propose a novel and indirect form of animal-plant-microbe interaction: top-down control of aboveground vegetation structure determines the capacity of allochthonous organic matter trapping during flooding and thus the structure of the microbial community. Furthermore, our data provide the first evidence that grazing slows down microbial exo-enzyme activity and thus decomposition through changes in soil redox chemistry. Activities of enzymes involved in C cycling were reduced by 28-40%, while activities of enzymes involved in N cycling were not consistently affected by grazing. It remains unclear if this is a trampling-driven direct grazing effect, as hypothesized in earlier studies, or if the effect on redox chemistry is plant mediated and thus indirect. This study improves our process-level understanding of how grazing can affect the microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of semi-terrestrial ecosystems that may help explain and predict differences in C turnover and sequestration rates between grazed and ungrazed systems.
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- Peter Mueller
- Applied Plant Ecology, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Applied Plant Ecology, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Applied Plant Ecology, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Applied Plant Ecology, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Plant Physiology, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Plant Physiology, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Applied Plant Ecology, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Ohnhorststraße 18, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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Buij R, Melman TCP, Loonen MJJE, Fox AD. Balancing ecosystem function, services and disservices resulting from expanding goose populations. AMBIO 2017; 46:301-318. [PMID: 28215006 PMCID: PMC5316333 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-017-0902-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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As goose populations increase in abundance, their influence on ecological processes is increasing. We review the evidence for key ecological functions of wild goose populations in Eurasia and North America, including aquatic invertebrate and plant propagule transport, nutrient deposition in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, the influence of goose populations on vegetation biomass, carbon storage and methane emission, species diversity and disease transmission. To estimate the implications of their growing abundance for humans, we explore how these functions contribute to the provision of ecosystem services and disservices. We assess the weight, extent and trends among such impacts, as well as the balance of their value to society. We examine key unresolved issues to enable a more balanced assessment of the economic costs or benefits of migratory geese along their flyways, including the spatial and temporal variation in services and their contrasting value to different user groups. Many ecological functions of geese are concluded to provide neither services nor disservices and, ecosystem disservices currently appear to outweigh services, although this varies between regions. We consider an improved quantification of ecosystem services and disservices, and how these vary along population flyways with respect to variation in valuing certain cultural services, and under different management scenarios aimed at reducing their disservices, essential for a more balanced management of goose populations.
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- Ralph Buij
- Team Animal Ecology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Kalø, Grenåvej 14, 8410 Rønde, Denmark
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Gar’kusha DN, Fedorov YA. Effect of plants on processes of methane cycle in bottom deposits and soil rhizosphere. CONTEMP PROBL ECOL+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s1995425516060032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Winton RS, Richardson CJ. Top-down control of methane emission and nitrogen cycling by waterfowl. Ecology 2016; 98:265-277. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2016] [Revised: 09/08/2016] [Accepted: 09/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- R. Scott Winton
- Duke University Wetland Center, Nicholas School of the Environment; Duke University; Durham North Carolina 27708 USA
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- Duke University Wetland Center, Nicholas School of the Environment; Duke University; Durham North Carolina 27708 USA
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Bakker ES, Wood KA, Pagès JF, Veen G(C, Christianen MJ, Santamaría L, Nolet BA, Hilt S. Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective. AQUATIC BOTANY 2016. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2016.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Lamers LPM, Vile MA, Grootjans AP, Acreman MC, van Diggelen R, Evans MG, Richardson CJ, Rochefort L, Kooijman AM, Roelofs JGM, Smolders AJP. Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence‐based approach. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2014; 90:182-203. [DOI: 10.1111/brv.12102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2013] [Revised: 02/16/2014] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Leon P. M. Lamers
- Department of Aquatic Ecology & Environmental Biology Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology Villanova University Villanova PA 19085 U.S.A
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology & Environmental Biology Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Department of Energy and Environmental Studies Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, University of Groningen Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Maclean Building, Benson Lane Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 8BB U.K
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- Department of Biology University of Antwerp Campus Drie Eiken, D.C.124, Universiteitsplein 1 2610 Wilrijk Belgium
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- Upland Environments Research Unit School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester PO Box 88 Manchester M60 1QD U.K
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- Duke University Wetland Center Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Box 90333 Durham NC 27708 U.S.A
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- Département de phytologie Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, Université Laval 2425, Rue de l'Agriculture Québec G1V 0A6 Canada
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics University of Amsterdam Science Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology & Environmental Biology Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology & Environmental Biology Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ Nijmegen The Netherlands
- B‐Ware Research Centre Toernooiveld 1 6525 ED Nijmegen The Netherlands
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Green AJ, Elmberg J. Ecosystem services provided by waterbirds. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2013; 89:105-22. [PMID: 23786594 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2012] [Revised: 05/16/2013] [Accepted: 05/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ecosystem services are ecosystem processes that directly or indirectly benefit human well-being. There has been much recent literature identifying different services and the communities and species that provide them. This is a vital first step towards management and maintenance of these services. In this review, we specifically address the waterbirds, which play key functional roles in many aquatic ecosystems, including as predators, herbivores and vectors of seeds, invertebrates and nutrients, although these roles have often been overlooked. Waterbirds can maintain the diversity of other organisms, control pests, be effective bioindicators of ecological conditions, and act as sentinels of potential disease outbreaks. They also provide important provisioning (meat, feathers, eggs, etc.) and cultural services to both indigenous and westernized societies. We identify key gaps in the understanding of ecosystem services provided by waterbirds and areas for future research required to clarify their functional role in ecosystems and the services they provide. We consider how the economic value of these services could be calculated, giving some examples. Such valuation will provide powerful arguments for waterbird conservation.
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- Andy J Green
- Department of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, E-41092, Sevilla, Spain
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