Biodiversity-friendly designs for gravel pit lakes along the Drina River floodplain (the Middle Danube Basin, Serbia)

Damnjanović, Bojan; Novković, Maja; Vesić, Aleksandra; Živković, Mladen; Radulović, Snežana; Vukov, Dragana; Anđelković, Ana; Cvijanović, Dušanka

doi:10.1007/s11273-018-9641-8

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“…Gravel pit lakes in Lower Saxony, Germany, were found to host substantial species diversity and a high proportion of the regional species pools of aquatic and riparian taxa, especially trees, Odonata, and waterfowl. This finding supports related work in other areas of Europe (Damnjanovi c et al, 2018;Holtmann, Juchem, Brüggeshemke, Möhlmeyer, & Fartmann, 2018;Oertli, 2018;Spyra & Strzelec, 2019), yet only small proportions of the regional species pools were detected for vascular plant species, submerged macrophytes, songbirds, and amphibians. In particular, amphibians are considered very sensitive to predation from fish (Hecnar & M'Closkey, 1997), and none of the study lakes were free of fish (Matern et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…The data were processed using BioBase (Navico, Minneapolis, MN), and the post‐processed data (depth and Global Positioning System (GPS) position per ping) were used to calculate depth contour maps using ordinary kriging with the gstat package in r 3.5.1 (Gräler, Pebesma, & Heuvelink, 2016; R Core Team, 2013). Maximum depth and relative depth ratio (Damnjanović et al , 2018) were extracted from the contour maps. Shoreline length and lake area were estimated in qgis 3.4.1 and used to calculate the shoreline development factor ( SDF ), which is the ratio of the lake shoreline length ( L ) to the circumference of a circle with the same area ( A ):

S D F = \frac{L}{2 \sqrt{π A}}

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“…Artificially created aquatic habitats, such as gravel pit lakes or ponds, could maintain and increase native freshwater biodiversity by providing refuge and secondary habitats for rare or endangered species (Damnjanović et al , 2018; Oertli, 2018). The origins of artificial lake ecosystems are often relatively recent (less than 100 years of age; Zhao, Grenouillet, Pool, Tudesque, & Cucherousset, 2016), where artificial lakes are often created by mining for mineral resources (Saulnier‐Talbot & Lavoie, 2018).…”

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Status of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in artificial lake ecosystems with and without management for recreational fisheries: Implications for conservation

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Aquatic Conservation

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Humanity is facing a biodiversity crisis, with freshwater‐associated biodiversity in a particularly dire state. Novel ecosystems created through human use of mineral resources, such as gravel pit lakes, can provide substitute habitats for the conservation of freshwater and riparian biodiversity. Many of these artificial ecosystems are subject to a high intensity of recreational use, however, which may limit their biodiversity potential. The species richness of several taxa (plants, amphibians, dragonflies, damselflies, waterfowl, and songbirds) was assessed and a range of taxonomic biodiversity metrics were compared between gravel pit lakes managed for recreational fisheries (n = 16) and unmanaged reference lakes (n = 10), controlling for non‐fishing‐related environmental variation. The average species richness of all the taxa examined was similar among lakes in both lake types and no substantial differences in species composition were found when examining the pooled species inventory. Similarly, there were no differences between lake types in the presence of rare species and in the Simpson diversity index across all of the taxa assessed. Variation in species richness among lakes was correlated with woody habitat, lake morphology (surface area and steepness), and land use, but was not correlated with the presence of recreational fisheries. Thus, non‐fishing‐related environmental variables had stronger effects on local species presence than recreational fisheries management or the presence of recreational anglers. Collectively, no evidence was found that anglers and recreational fisheries management constrain the development of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in gravel pit lakes in the study region; however, the conservation of species diversity in gravel pit lakes could benefit from an increasing reliance on habitat enhancement activities.

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S D F = \frac{L}{2 \sqrt{π A}}

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Status of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in artificial lake ecosystems with and without management for recreational fisheries: Implications for conservation

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Maday

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“…Our comparative study revealed that gravel pit lakes managed and used by anglers constitute a 1 highly suitable environment for hosting a large diversity and a large fraction of regional species pool 2 of aquatic and riparian species associated with lakes. This finding joins related work that has revealed 3 that gravel pits are suitable habitats for multiple vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, some of which 4 have very high conservation value (Damnjanović et al, 2018;Emmrich et al, 2014;Matern et al, in 5 press; Søndergaard et al, 2018; Völkl, 2010). We were unable to reject our null hypothesis of no 6 differences in aquatic and riparian biodiversity in and at angler-managed lakes compared to 7 unmanaged ones.…”

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“…The post-78 processed raw data (depth and gps-position per ping) were used to calculate depth contour maps 79 using ordinary kriging with the gstat-package in R (Gräler, Pebesma, & Heuvelink, 2016;Pebesma, 80 2004; R Core Team, 2013). The contour maps were used to extract maximum depth and also used for 81 the calculation of the relative depth ratio (see Damnjanović et al, 2018). Shoreline length and lake 82 area were estimated in QGIS 3.4.1, and the shoreline development factor (Osgood, 2005) ISO 11732, 2005), and Chl-a was enumerated using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) 92 (Mantoura & Llewellyn, 1983; S. W. Wright, 1991).…”

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Status of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in artificial lake ecosystems with and without management for recreational fisheries: implications for conservation

Nikolaus

Schafft

Maday

et al. 2019

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AbstractHumanity is facing a biodiversity crisis, with freshwater-associated biodiversity in a particularly dire state. Novel ecosystems created through human use of mineral resources, such as gravel pit lakes, can provide substitute habitats for conservation of freshwater and riparian biodiversity. However, many of these artificial ecosystems may exhibit high recreational use intensity, which may limit their biodiversity potential.The species richness of several taxa (plants, amphibians, dragonflies, damselflies, waterfowl, songbirds) was assessed and a range of taxonomic biodiversity metrics were compared between gravel pit lakes managed for recreational fisheries (N = 16) and unmanaged reference lakes (N = 10), while controlling for non-fishing related environmental variation.The average species richness of all examined taxa was similar among both lake types and no substantial differences in species composition were revealed when examining the pooled species inventory. Similarly, there were no differences among lake types in the presence of rare species and in the Simpson diversity index across all the taxa that were assessed.Variation in species richness among lakes was correlated with woody habitat, lake morphology (surface area and steepness) and land use, but not correlated with the presence of recreational fisheries. Thus, non-fishing related environmental variables had stronger effects on local species presence than recreational-fisheries management or the presence of recreational anglers.Collectively, no evidence was found that anglers and recreational-fisheries management constrain the development of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in gravel pit lakes in the study region. Conservation of species diversity at gravel pit lakes could benefit from an increasing reliance on habitat enhancement activities.

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River connectivity increases the diversity of fish communities in gravel pit lakes

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Off‐channel floodplain features are important components of a river system that provide habitat and boost regional species pools, but river‐floodplain connectivity is disrupted by anthropogenic activities. Campbell Lakes (Harrison, OH, USA) are formerly isolated gravel pits along Whitewater River connected to the river through flooding‐related erosion. The lakes were first stocked with sportfish by Great Parks of Hamilton County to promote recreational fishing, but stocking stopped in 2019 due to frequent connection with the Whitewater River during high flow. We explored how fish community composition of the Campbell Lakes reflects increasing connectivity with Whitewater River and among the lakes. Using historical aerial photographs and river discharge estimates, we established an approximate timeline of permanent connectivity and potential breaches between the lakes and Whitewater River from 2000 to 2020. We compared fish community data collected via electrofishing surveys of Campbell Lakes from 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2020 to 1995 and 2013 surveys of Whitewater River and Great Miami River. The lakes were dominated by centrarchid species in early surveys but show increased species and family richness with time. Based on an analysis of similarity and non‐metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS), the lakes’ fish communities differed significantly among years and are gradually resembling the river communities. Our results suggest that the Campbell Lakes fish communities are broadening to include taxa from the Whitewater and Great Miami communities and shifting from lentic to lotic species. The change in fish community assemblages in Campbell Lakes demonstrates the potential for gravel pit lakes to serve as artificial floodplain features that can enhance river‐floodplain connectivity.

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Biodiversity-friendly designs for gravel pit lakes along the Drina River floodplain (the Middle Danube Basin, Serbia)

Cited by 13 publications

References 51 publications

Status of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in artificial lake ecosystems with and without management for recreational fisheries: Implications for conservation

Status of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in artificial lake ecosystems with and without management for recreational fisheries: Implications for conservation

Status of aquatic and riparian biodiversity in artificial lake ecosystems with and without management for recreational fisheries: implications for conservation

River connectivity increases the diversity of fish communities in gravel pit lakes

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