Subfossil Cladocera in relation to contemporary environmental variables in 54 Pan-European lakes
| Autor: | Rikke Bjerring, Eloy Bécares, Ryszard Kornijów, Mirva Nykänen, Bent Vad Odgaard, Anna Halkiewicz, Lars-Anders Hansson, Steven Declerck, Elisabeth M. Gross, Tiina Nõges, Susanne L. Amsinck, Brian Moss, Miltiadis Seferlis, Erik Jeppesen, José M. Conde-Porcuna, Timo Kairesalo |
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| Jazyk: | němčina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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0106 biological sciences
Fossil [gnd] Aquatic Science 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences EU-Projekt ECOFRAME Latitude canonical correspondence analysis Canonical correspondence analysis Abundance (ecology) ddc:570 14. Life underwater species richness Ephippia Klima [gnd] Wasserflöhe [gnd] biology Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Pelagic zone 15. Life on land biology.organism_classification Macrophyte Habitat 13. Climate action Environmental science See [gnd] Species richness multivariate regression analysis ephippia zooplankton structure |
| Zdroj: | Bjerring, R, Becares, E, Declerck, S, Gross, E M, Hansson, L-A, Kairesalo, T, Nykänen, M, Halkiewicz, A, Kornijów, R, Conde Porcuna, J M, Seferlis, M, Nõges, T, Moss, B, Amsinck, S L, Odgaard, B V & Jeppesen, E 2009, ' Subfossil Cladocera in relation to contemporary environmental variables in 54 Pan-European lakes ', Freshwater Biology, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2401-2417 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02252.x |
| Popis: | 1. Changes in cladoceran subfossils in the surface sediments of 54 shallow lakes were studied along a European latitude gradient (36 68°N). Multivariate methods, such as regression trees and ordination, were applied to explore the relationships between cladoceran taxa distribution and contemporary environmental variables, with special focus on the impact of climate.2. Multivariate regression tree analysis showed distinct differences in cladoceran community structure and lake characteristics along the latitude gradient, identifying three groups: (i) northern lakes characterised by low annual mean temperature, conductivity, nutrient concentrations and fish abundance, (ii) southern, macrophyte rich, warm water lakes with high conductivity and high fish abundance and (iii) Mid-European lakes atintermediate latitudes with intermediate conductivities, trophic state and temperatures.3. Large-sized, pelagic species dominated a group of seven northern lakes with low conductivity, where acid-tolerant species were also occasionally abundant. Small-sized, benthic-associated species dominated a group of five warm water lakes with high conductivity. Cladoceran communities generally showed low species-specific preferences for habitat and environmental conditions in the Mid-European group of lakes. Taxon richness was low in the southern-most, high-conductivity lakes as well as in the two northern-most sub-arctic lakes.4. The proportion of cladoceran resting eggs relative to body shields was high in the northern lakes, and linearly (negatively) related to both temperature and Chl a, indicating that both cold climate (short growing season) and low food availability induce high ephippia production.5. Latitude and, implicitly, temperature were strongly correlated with conductivity and nutrient concentrations, highlighting the difficulties of disentangling a direct climate signal from indirect effects of climate, such as changes in fish community structure and humanrelated impacts, when a latitude gradient is used as a climate proxy. Future studies shouldfocus on the interrelationships between latitude and gradients in nutrient concentration and conductivity. |
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