Distribution and conservation status of fairy shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca) in the astatic soda pans of the Carpathian basin: the role of local and spatial factors

Horváth, Zsófia; Vad, Csaba F.; Vörös, Lajos; Boros, Emil

doi:10.4081/jlimnol.2013.e9

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“…algal food (Lukić, Horváth, Vad, & Ptacnik, 2018). For example, the three fairy shrimp species inhabiting Central European soda pans (including our study species Branchinecta orientalis) all seem to prefer highly turbid habitats according to field data (Horváth, Vad, Vörös, & Boros, 2013a). For example, the three fairy shrimp species inhabiting Central European soda pans (including our study species Branchinecta orientalis) all seem to prefer highly turbid habitats according to field data (Horváth, Vad, Vörös, & Boros, 2013a).…”

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Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

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1. Omnivory is widespread in food webs, with an important stabilising effect.The strength of omnivorous trophic interactions may change considerably with changes in the local environment.2. Shallow temporary waters are often characterised by high levels of inorganic turbidity that may directly limit the food uptake of filter-feeding organisms, but there is little evidence on how it might affect omnivorous species. Anostracans are key species of temporary waters and recent evidence suggests that these organisms are omnivorous consumers of both phyto-and zooplankton.3. Using Branchinecta orientalis as a model species, our aim was to test how turbidity affects the feeding of an omnivorous anostracan. To do this, we used short-term feeding experiments and stable isotope analyses, with animals collected from soda pans in eastern Austria. In the feeding experiments, algae and zooplankton were offered as food either separately or in combination. The prey type treatments were crossed with turbidity levels in a factorial design.4. There was a pronounced decrease in the ingested algal biomass with increasing turbidity. Conversely, ingestion rates on zooplankton were less affected by turbidity. Stable isotope analyses from field material supported our experimental results by showing a positive relationship of the trophic position of anostracans and the trophic niche of the communities with turbidity. 5. Our results show that turbidity modulates the intraguild trophic relationship between anostracans and their prey by shifting the diet of anostracans from more herbivorous in transparent to more carnivorous in turbid waters. Thus, inorganic turbidity might also have a community-shaping role in plankton communities of temporary waters through altering trophic relationships. K E Y W O R D Sanostracans, phytoplankton, temporary ponds, trophic webs, zooplankton | 227 LUKIĆ et aL.

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Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

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“…On the other hand, the need for protection of the salt lakes as habitats and food sources for waterfowl, and as important reservoirs of biodiversity has been claimed in different parts of the world (Horváth et al, 2012(Horváth et al, , 2013. Water bodies of Pampa de las Lagunas are threatened by many anthropic activities, resulting from land use, agriculture, livestock, with the subsequent deposition of a significant amount of organic wastes, fertilisers and pesticides (Miglioranza et al, 2003;Romano et al, 2005;Pengue, 2005;Peruzzo et al, 2008) The high concentrations of P and phytoplankton registered are indicative of eutrophic aquatic environments.…”

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Zooplankton characterisation of Pampean saline shallow lakes, habitat of the Andean flamingoes

Battauz

Paggi

et al. 2013

J Limnol

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“…The Pannon Ecoregion contains some unique standing water habitat types, which are rare (or missing) in other European regions. For example, many standing waters in the ecoregion have a peculiar astatic character (temporarily dried out) which is attributed to the arid continental climate (Szesztay, 1974;Horváth et al, 2013;Radulovič et al, 2011). The climatic, geomorphologic and hydrologic features of standing waters resulted in a variety of lake types with well-developed submerged and emergent macrophyte vegetation.…”

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Macrophyte diversity of lakes in the Pannon Ecoregion (Hungary)

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Tóthmérész²,

Borics

et al. 2015

Limnologica

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a b s t r a c tWe examined the distribution of submerged and emergent macrophyte species and the entire macrophyte community within and between five lake types (highland reservoirs, alkali lakes, large shallow lakes, small to medium sized shallow lakes, marshes) in the Pannon Ecoregion, Hungary. The lowest submerged, emergent and total species richness was found in alkali lakes. The highest submerged macrophyte richness was in small to medium sized lakes, while the highest emergent macrophyte species richness was in reservoirs, small to medium sized lakes, and marshes. The values of within-lake type beta diversity were generally lower than the values of alpha diversity, especially for submerged macrophytes, indicating between site homogeneity in species composition within the lake types. Emergent macrophyte communities contributed the most to within and between lake type diversity and total (gamma) diversity. Canonical correspondence analyses showed that the main environmental variables which influenced the distribution of submerged macrophytes were conductivity, Secchi transparency and water nitrogen contents. For emergent macrophytes conductivity, lake width, altitude and water depth proved to be the most influential variables. Our results contribute to the knowledge of large-scale distribution of macrophytes in the Pannon Ecoregion and to the identification of conservation value of lakes using macrophytes. The results support the importance of small lakes and artificial lakes in the conservation of macrophyte diversity compared to large and natural lakes in the Pannon Ecoregion.

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Distribution and conservation status of fairy shrimps (Crustacea: Anostraca) in the astatic soda pans of the Carpathian basin: the role of local and spatial factors

Cited by 33 publications

References 38 publications

Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

Zooplankton characterisation of Pampean saline shallow lakes, habitat of the Andean flamingoes

Macrophyte diversity of lakes in the Pannon Ecoregion (Hungary)

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