Invertebrates in Temporary Wetland Ponds of the Temperate Biomes

Jeffries, Michael; Epele, Luis B.; Studinski, Jered M.; Vad, Csaba F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24978-0_4

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“…Habitat loss is estimated to be 80% in Kiskunság (Horváth et al, 2013b), the region where the studied bomb crater ponds occur. Moreover, we found several specialists of temporary waters – habitats that are also disappearing at an alarming rate in most parts of the world (Jeffries et al, 2016; Zacharias and Zamparas, 2010). Considering this, the bomb craters represent a valuable refuge for halophilic and temporary water species along with halotolerant taxa comprising the communities of soda pans in general.…”

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Wartime scars or reservoirs of biodiversity? The value of bomb crater ponds in aquatic conservation

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Biological Conservation

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Considering the ongoing loss of aquatic habitats, anthropogenic ponds are gaining importance as substitute habitats. It is therefore important to assess their functioning in comparison to their natural precursors. Here we assess the biodiversity value of sodic bomb crater ponds by comparing their gamma diversity to that of natural reference habitats, astatic soda pans, and assess their importance on the landscape level by studying alpha and beta diversity. We studied aquatic organisms ranging from algae to vertebrates in a dense cluster of 54 sodic bomb crater ponds in Central Europe. Despite the overall small area of the pond cluster, gamma diversity was comparable to that found in surveys of natural habitats that encompassed much wider spatial and temporal scales. We also found a considerable number of species shared with reference habitats, indicating that these anthropogenic habitats function as important refuge sites for several species that are associated with the endangered soda pans. Moreover, we found a number of regionally or worldwide rare species. Among the components of beta diversity, species replacement dominated community assembly. Individual ponds contributed similarly to beta diversity in terms of * Corresponding author, csaba.vad@wcl.ac.at (C.F. Vad). Europe PMC Funders Group Europe PMC Funders Author ManuscriptsEurope PMC Funders Author Manuscripts replacement, being equally important for maintaining high gamma diversity and emphasising the role of the pond network rather than individual ponds. This pattern was seen in all studied groups. Bomb crater ponds therefore acted as important contributors to aquatic biodiversity. Considering the tremendous losses of ponds throughout Europe, anthropogenic ponds should be taken into consideration in nature conservation, especially when occurring in pond networks.

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“…However, numerous threats could undermine their potential to buffer atmospheric C. Pond loss is a worldwide problem (Jeffries et al . ) driven largely by land drainage and neglect, despite the role of ponds in providing key ecosystem services, such as flood mitigation and water‐quality improvement (eg Céréghino et al . ).…”

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“…However, numerous threats could undermine their potential to buffer atmospheric C. Pond loss is a worldwide problem (Jeffries et al 2016) driven largely by land drainage and neglect, despite the role of ponds in providing key ecosystem services, such as flood mitigation and water-quality improvement (eg Céréghino et al 2013). For example, small ponds constructed adjacent to streams can remove 85-90% of nitrates, phosphates, and suspended sediments from watercourses (Zedler and Kercher 2005), and networks of ponds can reduce catchment flooding during extreme weather events (Biggs 2007).…”

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“…We also provide insights on the role of vegetation that can inform the construction and engineering of ponds to target OC burial. The agricultural lowland landscape and the ponds in which this study was conducted are characteristic of lowlands across Europe, North America, temperate South America, China, and Russia (Jeffries et al 2016); as such, although we focus on estimating C burial for the UK, we believe that our results have global application.…”

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High carbon burial rates by small ponds in the landscape

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Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Temperate ponds may be important sinks and sources of greenhouse gases but just how quickly ponds bury carbon (C) is poorly understood. We derived – to the best of our knowledge – the first organic carbon (OC) burial rates for small ponds of known age by digging out the whole sediment from ponds, and determined that the average C burial rate was 142 g m−2 yr−1, with a range of 79–247 g m−2 yr−1, depending on the ponds' vegetation. Burial rates in the ponds were 20–30 times higher than rates estimated for many other habitat types, such as woodlands or grasslands, and higher than those of other natural wetlands. Although small ponds occupy a very small proportion of the landscape as compared to these other habitats, their high OC burial rates result in comparable annual OC burial overall. Ponds are easy to create, can fit in with other land uses, and are a globally ubiquitous habitat. Our results indicate that ponds have the potential to be a very useful additional tool for mitigating C emissions.

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“…Temporary ponds show a wide variation in local abiotic and biotic environmental factors that affect the establishment of the biota in these ecosystems (Williams 2006). In addition, temporary ponds represent patches that vary both spatially and temporally and thus constitute excellent models for testing the relative influence of assembly processes to metacommunity organisation (Jeffries et al 2016). Many authors postulated that dispersal processes and dispersal ability should be important for the metacommunity organisation in these ecosystems (Jeffries 2005;De Bie et al 2012;Jeffries et al 2016).…”

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The role of environmental and spatial factors in the assembly of aquatic insect communities in southern Brazilian temporary ponds

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Metacommunity organisation in temporary ponds is assembled by spatiotemporally varying processes that are also contingent on the species' dispersal ability and scale of observation. Aquatic insects are useful models to study the relative contribution of environmental and spatial factors to community assembly in view of the differing dispersal ability existing in the species from this group. We assessed the metacommunity organisation of aquatic insects and subsets of strong-and weak-flying insects in relation to environmental (habitat structure; water chemistry; climate) and spatial factors in temporary ponds ranging along a latitudinal gradient in southern Brazil. Local and climate environmental factors (water chemistry and temperature) along with fine-scale spatial factors were the main drivers of the total insect community, although their relative importance shifted between subsets of weak-and strong-flying insects. The composition of strong-flying insects was structured by climate and fine-scale spatial factors, while weak-flying insects, by local (water chemistry) and spatially structured climate. This suggests that strong-flying insects showed stronger signatures of mass effects at finer scales, while weak-flying insects were more strongly affected by species sorting coupled to local environmental factors and regional climate. In summary, our results indicate that the relative importance of assembly processes for metacommunity organisation of aquatic insects in temporary ponds is contingent on dispersal ability.

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Invertebrates in Temporary Wetland Ponds of the Temperate Biomes

Cited by 21 publications

References 79 publications

Wartime scars or reservoirs of biodiversity? The value of bomb crater ponds in aquatic conservation

Wartime scars or reservoirs of biodiversity? The value of bomb crater ponds in aquatic conservation

High carbon burial rates by small ponds in the landscape

The role of environmental and spatial factors in the assembly of aquatic insect communities in southern Brazilian temporary ponds

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