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Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre-industrial times in relation to land use

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GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
卷 31, 期 11, 页码 2337-2352

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13575

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Canada; cladoceran zooplankton; functional traits; large-scale patterns; palaeolimnology; plankton; subfossils; temporal beta-diversity

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  1. Canada Research Chairs [950-232696]
  2. Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie [2018-RS4-203279]
  3. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [06844, NSERC NETGP 479720-1]

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This study aims to understand how and where assemblages of a central food web component of freshwater lakes have changed over the course of industrialization in relation to land use. The research found that contemporary assemblages in highly impacted lakes were less diverse both taxonomically and functionally compared to pre-industrial assemblages. While spatial homogenization did not increase as expected, temporal turnover showed a non-significant but increasing trend in highly impacted lakes, especially in urbanized watersheds. The study contributes to our understanding of the health status of Canadian lakes and the impacts of human activities, particularly agriculture and urbanization, on lake zooplankton.
Aim While it is now well accepted that human activities are having pronounced effects on natural ecosystems, regional variation in the rate and magnitude of various human impacts is unclear. Moreover, the effects of land use change on natural aquatic communities have only relatively recently begun to be explored. Our goal was to understand how and where assemblages of a central food web component of freshwater lakes have changed over the course of industrialization in relation to land use. Location Canada. Time period Pre-1880 AD to present. Major taxa studied Cladoceran zooplankton. Methods As part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canadian Lake Pulse Network, we selected 101 lakes across Canada along a gradient of human impact to analyse subfossil cladoceran assemblages from sediment cores. We examined relationships between taxonomic and functional indicators of cladoceran assemblage change among lakes and through time. Results Contemporary assemblages were taxonomically and functionally less diverse locally relative to pre-industrial assemblages (alpha-diversity) and were structured by the degree of human impact in watersheds. Local alpha-diversity losses were greatest in highly impacted lakes where agriculture and pasture are prevalent. While spatial homogenization (spatial beta-diversity) did not increase since pre-industrial times as expected, temporal turnover (temporal beta-diversity) showed a non-significant but increasing trend in highly impacted lakes, especially in urbanized watersheds. Main conclusions Cladoceran assemblages have changed significantly over the course of the Industrial period, and especially in more highly impacted watersheds, underscoring the important role of watershed land use in shaping diversity. However, indicators of cladoceran function have remained relatively conserved over time and land use change showed little impact on beta-diversity, despite important environmental variation. Overall, this research furthers our understanding of the health status of Canadian lakes and the consequences of human activities, especially agriculture and urbanization, on lake zooplankton.

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