Long-Term Environmental Monitoring in an Arctic Lake Polluted by Metals under Climate Change
| Autor: | Vladimir Dauvalter, Peter M. Terentyev, Zakhar Slukovskii, Oksana I. Vandysh, Svetlana Valkova, Elena M. Zubova, Nikolay Kashulin, Alexander A. Cherepanov, D. B. Denisov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
Population Climate change 010501 environmental sciences 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences lcsh:TD1-1066 Environmental monitoring pollution Ecosystem lcsh:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering heavy metals education Lake Kuetsjarvi Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science ecosystem Abiotic component Ecological niche education.field_of_study Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Ecology Arctic Environmental science Eutrophication |
| Zdroj: | Environments Volume 7 Issue 5 Environments, Vol 7, Iss 34, p 34 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2076-3298 |
| Popis: | Lake Kuetsjarvi (in the lower reaches of the Pasvik River, Murmansk Region, Russia) in the border area between Russia and Norway, is one of the most polluted water reservoirs in the European Arctic. The operation of the Pechenganikel Smelter located on its shores has led to the extremely high concentrations of heavy metals observed in the waters and sediments of the lake. Long-term comprehensive studies of the ecosystem of Lake Kuetsjarvi have made it possible to identify the response of its components to the global and regional change in the environment and climate as a whole, resulting in increased water toxicity and eutrophication, reduction in the number of stenobiont species of aquatic organisms against the background of an increase in the number of eurybiontic and invasive species. Modern communities of Lake Kuetsjarvi are the result of a combination of long-term changes in the abiotic environment and biotic interactions. Heavy-metal pollution of Lake Kuetsjarvi, observed since the 1930s, has led to the formation of a community that is resistant to this type of impact and supports large populations of adapted species. Adaptations of communities to the dynamics of the environmental conditions that their members are exposed to include changes in the species composition, quantitative indicators, ratios between individual taxonomic groups, and the population structure. The development of sympatric forms that differ in the ecological niches they occupy, morphology, and life cycle strategies, including the transition to a short-cycle survival strategy, allows whitefish to remain the dominant species and maintain high population numbers. Unlike the organismal level, responses to medium-term environmental changes on the population and community level are less specific and characterized by stronger inertia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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