TY - JOUR
T1 - Distribution patterns of epiphytic reed-associated macroinvertebrate communities across European shallow lakes
AU - Kornijów, Ryszard
AU - Dukowska, Małgorzata
AU - Leszczyńska, Joanna
AU - Smith, Carl
AU - Jeppesen, Erik
AU - Hansson, Lars Anders
AU - Ketola, Mirva
AU - Irvine, Kenneth
AU - Nõges, Tiina
AU - Sahuquillo, Maria
AU - Miracle, Maria Rosa
AU - Gross, Elisabeth
AU - Kairesalo, Timo
AU - van Donk, Ellen
AU - de Eyto, Elvira
AU - García-Criado, Francisco
AU - Grzybkowska, Maria
AU - Moss, Brian
N1 - 7158, AqE
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - So far, research on plant-associated macroinvertebrates, even if conducted on a large number of water bodies, has mostly focused on a relatively small area, permitting limited conclusions to be drawn regarding potentially broader geographic effects, including climate. Some recent studies have shown that the composition of epiphytic communities may differ considerably among climatic zones. To assess this phenomenon, we studied macroinvertebrates associated with the common reed Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud in 46 shallow lakes using a common protocol. The lakes, located in nine countries, covered almost the entire European latitudinal range (from <48°N to 61°N) and captured much of the variability in lake size and nutrient content in the region. A Poisson Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) showed the number of macroinvertebrate epiphytic taxa to be negatively associated with water conductivity and positively associated with medium ice cover duration (approximately 1 month). A Gamma GLMM showed a positive effect of chlorophyll a on the density of macroinvertebrates, and a significantly greater density in lakes located at the lowest and highest latitudes. Individual taxa responded differently to lake environmental conditions across climate zones. Chironomidae dominated in all climate zones, but their contribution to total density decreased with increasing latitude, with progressively greater proportions of Naidinae, Asellidae, Ephemeroptera and Trichoptera. Our study demonstrates that epiphytic macroinvertebrate fauna, even when analyzed at low taxonomic resolution, exhibits clear differences in diversity, relative abundance of individual taxa and total density, shaped both by geographic and anthropogenic variables. The results were discussed in the context of climate change. To our best knowledge this is the first study to examine epiphytic fauna carried out on a European scale.
AB - So far, research on plant-associated macroinvertebrates, even if conducted on a large number of water bodies, has mostly focused on a relatively small area, permitting limited conclusions to be drawn regarding potentially broader geographic effects, including climate. Some recent studies have shown that the composition of epiphytic communities may differ considerably among climatic zones. To assess this phenomenon, we studied macroinvertebrates associated with the common reed Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud in 46 shallow lakes using a common protocol. The lakes, located in nine countries, covered almost the entire European latitudinal range (from <48°N to 61°N) and captured much of the variability in lake size and nutrient content in the region. A Poisson Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) showed the number of macroinvertebrate epiphytic taxa to be negatively associated with water conductivity and positively associated with medium ice cover duration (approximately 1 month). A Gamma GLMM showed a positive effect of chlorophyll a on the density of macroinvertebrates, and a significantly greater density in lakes located at the lowest and highest latitudes. Individual taxa responded differently to lake environmental conditions across climate zones. Chironomidae dominated in all climate zones, but their contribution to total density decreased with increasing latitude, with progressively greater proportions of Naidinae, Asellidae, Ephemeroptera and Trichoptera. Our study demonstrates that epiphytic macroinvertebrate fauna, even when analyzed at low taxonomic resolution, exhibits clear differences in diversity, relative abundance of individual taxa and total density, shaped both by geographic and anthropogenic variables. The results were discussed in the context of climate change. To our best knowledge this is the first study to examine epiphytic fauna carried out on a European scale.
KW - Climate
KW - Epiphytic fauna
KW - Helophytes
KW - Ice cover
KW - Littoral
KW - Nutrients
KW - Phragmites
KW - international
KW - Plan_S-Compliant_NO
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144117
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144117
M3 - Article
C2 - 33383318
AN - SCOPUS:85098699573
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 760
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
M1 - 144117
ER -