Analyses of long-term trends in water quality data of the Plitvice Lakes National Park

Vurnek, Maja; Brozinčević, Andrijana; Kepčija, Renata Matoničkin; Frketić, Tea

doi:10.1127/fal/2020/1369

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“…Contributions to this Special Issue highlight the vibrancy of research activity within freshwater sciences across and beyond Europe. Much of the research presented focuses on freshwaters of conservation interest, from those within protected national parks (Buj et al 2020;Ivić et al 2020;Vurnek et al 2020) to those in vulnerable areas of the Alpine region (Carosi et al 2020;Lencioni et al 2020). As European freshwaters continue to respond to climate change and other anthropogenic pressures, such research will underpin effective monitoring and management strategies that support biodiversity within functional ecosystems (Markovic et al 2017).…”

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“…The studies report a wide range of topics within freshwater science, including hydrochemistry, species and habitat conservation, primary and secondary production dynamics, structural and functional community responses to disturbances, and biotic regulation of nutrient cycling. These papers have common strengths including the analysis of long-term data to support conservation and management strategies in changing European climates (Carosi et al 2020;Maximov et al 2020;Vurnek et al 2020), and use of both traditional and genetic identification methods to characterize biodiversity -again supporting species conservation, in particular within the protected waters of the SEFS11 host nation, Croatia (Buj et al 2020;Ivić et al 2020;Piria et al 2020). Other studies bring new insight into structural and functional invertebrate responses to disturbance (Lencioni et al 2020;Šumanović et al 2020), andZandonà et al (2020) are unique in exploring the stoichiometry of nutrient excretion by consumers with contrasting diets and body elemental composition.…”

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“…The decreasing temperatures represented springs and streams but not cascading habitats and contrasted with increasing regional air temperatures, indicating the need for further research. Vurnek et al (2020) highlight the value of insights gained from long-term, continuous monitoring data in planning of future ecosystem management in a context of ongoing climate change.…”

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“…The construction of wastewater treatment plants in the Plitvice Lakes National Park are planned, and the establishment of a crossborder karstic aquifer sanitary protection zone is targeted [76]. While the water transfer scheme is currently capable of meeting the increased water demands during the summer months, the construction of treatment plants lags behind planning [77].…”

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Telecoupled Groundwaters: New Ways to Investigate Increasingly De-Localized Resources

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Groundwater is essential for drinking water provision and food production while hosting unique biodiversity and delivering key ecosystem services. However, overexploitation and contamination are prevailing threats in many regions worldwide. Even integrated governance schemes like the European Union Water Framework Directive often fail to ensure good quality and quantity conditions of groundwater bodies. Contributing factors are knowledge gaps on groundwater characteristics, limited financial, staff and land resources, as well as policy incoherencies. In this paper, we go further and argue that current groundwater challenges cannot be understood when considering the local situation within hydrologic boundaries only. New long-distance processes are at stake—so called telecouplings—that transgress watershed and administrative boundaries and significantly influence the state of local groundwater bodies. We provide three literature-based examples of European groundwater systems that are impacted by telecouplings, and we show how research and solution perspectives may change when acknowledging the de-localization of groundwater(s). We elaborate on virtual water trade, remote water supply, and seasonal tourist flows that connect sending, receiving and spillover systems. These processes can induce groundwater depletion and contamination but may also help to conserve the resource. Our hypothesis calls for a new spatial paradigm to groundwater management and highlights the need for transdisciplinary research approaches as envisioned in socio-hydrogeology.

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“…It is also recognized as one of the biodiversity hotspots [16]. Plitvice Lakes was chosen as a study site because the anthropogenic impact on the system is minimal [17]. Ongoing research on insect emergence in Plitvice Lakes has already provided some valuable information on the phenology and ecology of various aquatic insects: namely, Trichoptera [18], Ephemeroptera [19,20], Plecoptera [21], Odonata [22], Megaloptera [23], Neuroptera [24] and various Diptera families [16,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32].…”

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Long-Term Chironomid Emergence at a Karst Tufa Barrier in Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

Dorić,

Pozojević,

Baranov

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Chironomids are found in all types of freshwater habitats; they are a ubiquitous and highly diverse group of aquatic insects. Plitvice Lakes National Park is the oldest and largest national park in Croatia and consists of numerous and diverse freshwater habitats, making the area an ideal location for long-term research into the chironomid emergence patterns and phenology. The main objectives of this study were to identify the composition of the chironomid community, determine the phenology of the identified species, and assess the main factors influencing their emergence in Plitvice Lakes. During 14 years of research, more than 13,000 chironomids belonging to more than 80 species were recorded. The most abundant species was found to be Parametriocnemus stylatus. The highest abundance of chironomids was recorded in lotic habitats with faster water current over substrates of moss and algae and pebbles. Water temperature and the availability of organic matter were found to be the main factors that drive chironomid emergence at the tufa barrier studied. In the last years of this study, a prolonged flight period was observed. Although this is not statistically significant (at this stage of the study), it could be due to a higher water temperature in winter.

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Analyses of long-term trends in water quality data of the Plitvice Lakes National Park

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Research advances emerging from SEFS11: The 11th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences

Research advances emerging from SEFS11: The 11th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences

Telecoupled Groundwaters: New Ways to Investigate Increasingly De-Localized Resources

Long-Term Chironomid Emergence at a Karst Tufa Barrier in Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

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