The environmental and zooplankton community changes in restored ponds over 4 years

Olmo, Carla; Armengol, Xavier; Antón-Pardo, María; Ortells, Raquel

doi:10.1093/plankt/fbw021

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“…The development of macroinvertebrate structure and composition in the new pond was rapid, resulting in a community that was over 75% similar to the established pond within the one year of this study. Similar results from Spain have been reported by Olmo et al (2016), where by the end of the first year. Although 42 macroinvertebrate taxa were recorded, few taxa dominated by abundance in both ponds.…”

Section: Macroinvertebrate Trends and Dynamics In The Pondssupporting

confidence: 89%

“…It might also be due to their life-history traits such as low mortality, high reproduction rate or adaptability to the pond's prevailing conditions (Botwe et al 2017). The low abundance of insect taxa may be because of their semi-aquatic life and seasonality in colonising habitats (Lahr et al 1999;Suren and Lambert 2010;Olmo et al 2016). Different taxonomic groups, especially zooplankton like rotifers, and ostracods, show variation in their peak abundance over time (Lahr et al 1999), and this was also observed in this study.…”

Section: Macroinvertebrate Trends and Dynamics In The Pondssupporting

confidence: 75%

“…Additionally, the differences in the age, type and amount of macrophyte may contribute to differences in macroinvertebrate composition (Oertli et al 2002;Jeffries 2005;Ruhí et al 2011). Although some studies show a positive relationship between faunal richness and pond age (Miguel Chinchilla et al 2014;Olmo et al 2016), the results of our study did not; both ponds had similar taxa richness, similar to findings by Sun et al (2019).…”

Section: Macroinvertebrate Trends and Dynamics In The Pondssupporting

confidence: 69%

“…Artificial ponds are useful ecosystems for studying the successional process in freshwater ecosystems. They allow for studying the species composition from the onset of creating the habitat until the community stabilises (Olmo et al 2016). For organisms to colonise and be established successfully in a new habitat, for example, after a natural disaster has removed existing ecosystems, they must actively or passively disperse to the site.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Restoration of a pond: monitoring water quality and macroinvertebrate community succession

Kuranchie¹,

Harmer²,

Evans³

et al. 2021

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To determine the success of restoration programmes, knowledge of the temporal dynamics in community structure and processes is vital. The water quality and macroinvertebrate community structures of a newly created and an established pond within the same ecosystem were sampled bi-monthly over a year to monitor the development of the new pond. The water quality measures of the ponds were significantly different. Conductivity, salinity, and total dissolved solids levels were also different between the ponds. The colonisation of a macroinvertebrate community in the new pond was rapid, resulting in a 75% resemblance to the established pond by the end of the first year. The pond was colonised by non-insect taxa like Crustacea and Gastropod and then by insects. There was a significant difference in the macroinvertebrate communities of the ponds due to temporal taxonomic composition differences. The high abundance of Diplacodes spp. (perchers), Physa spp. (left-handed pond snail), and Ostracod (seed shrimp) in the new pond contributed to the difference in the community between the two ponds. Cladocera (water fleas) dominated the macroinvertebrate community, and the highest abundance was recorded in August for both ponds. Our results suggest that a newly created pond can have a comparable macroinvertebrate community to nearby established ponds within a year.

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Section: Macroinvertebrate Trends and Dynamics In The Pondssupporting

confidence: 75%

Section: Macroinvertebrate Trends and Dynamics In The Pondssupporting

confidence: 69%

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Restoration of a pond: monitoring water quality and macroinvertebrate community succession

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Harmer²,

Evans³

et al. 2021

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“… Bielanska-Grajner and Gladysz, 2010 ). For instance, higher zooplankton species richness has also been associated with lower EC in temporary Mediterranean ponds and wetlands ( Waterkeyn et al ., 2008 ; Olmo et al ., 2016 ). Similarly to our study, salinity was one of the main drivers of rotifer community structure in a set of shallow water bodies comprising both permanent and temporal sites, with rotifer diversity significantly decreasing with increasing salinity ( Malekzadeh-Viayeh and Špoljar, 2012 ).…”

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Key drivers structuring rotifer communities in ponds: insights into an agricultural landscape

Onandía

Maassen

Musseau

et al. 2021

Journal of Plankton Research

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Understanding the influence of environmental and spatial factors on the structure of aquatic communities remains a major challenge in community ecology. This study aims to identify main drivers of rotifer abundance and diversity in ponds embedded in an intensive agricultural landscape in Northeast Germany. We studied 42 ponds of glacial origin (kettle holes) covering a wide range of environmental parameters. The predominant factors structuring the rotifer metacommunity shifted from abiotic environmental filtering in spring to unstudied factors in autumn, while spatial factors remained less important. Fertilizer-driven salinization, internal nutrient recycling, primary productivity and sediment phosphorus release were the prevalent biogeochemical processes in the ponds. Both fertilizer-driven salinization and primary productivity negatively affected rotifer alpha diversity, and positively affected beta diversity. This impact was lower in forest ponds than in those surrounded by arable fields or grassland. However, rotifer diversity did not significantly differ among land-use categories. Our results indicate that the long-term impact of intensive agriculture in the region and the associated widespread eutrophication overrides the direct influence of land use on rotifer diversity but point to an indirect effect via fertilizer-driven salinization. Furthermore, this study highlights the role of ponds in enhancing regional biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.

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Higher alpha and gamma, but not beta diversity in tropical than in Mediterranean temporary ponds: A multi‐taxon spatiotemporal approach

Gálvez,

Castillo‐Escrivà,

Magurran

et al. 2023

Limnology & Oceanography

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The latitudinal diversity gradient predicts that tropical regions should have higher alpha, beta, and gamma diversity than temperate areas. However, only a few studies have assessed the temporal variability of the different components of diversity across climatic regions. In this study, we compare, using a spatial and temporal approach, the diversity of multiple taxa inhabiting tropical and Mediterranean temporary ponds. We sampled the biological communities of each set of ponds on three occasions during the same hydrological year. Under a spatial framework, we analyzed, alpha, beta, and gamma diversities. With a temporal approach, we compared the coefficients of variation in alpha diversity for each local community, and temporal beta diversity. Differences between regions and sampling periods were tested using generalized linear mixed models. We found higher gamma and alpha diversity in the tropical ponds, as expected given the latitudinal differences between them. However, phytoplankton and microinvertebrates from the Mediterranean region, matched or even exceeded tropical alpha diversity on some occasions. Spatial beta diversity did not differ between regions, and it showed lower values at the middle or the end of the hydroperiod in bacteria, micro‐ and macroinvertebrates and amphibians. Thus, processes homogenizing and heterogenising pond metacommunities must be balanced in both studied regions. Temporal variation in alpha and beta diversity was similar for ponds in both regions, except for macroinvertebrates and amphibians, suggesting differential effects on community variation observable only in animals with longer life‐spans, at our temporal scale of analysis.

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The environmental and zooplankton community changes in restored ponds over 4 years

Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Restoration of a pond: monitoring water quality and macroinvertebrate community succession

Restoration of a pond: monitoring water quality and macroinvertebrate community succession

Key drivers structuring rotifer communities in ponds: insights into an agricultural landscape

Higher alpha and gamma, but not beta diversity in tropical than in Mediterranean temporary ponds: A multi‐taxon spatiotemporal approach

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