Озера и водохранилища. Озера: местообитания.
Oikos
Volume 98 Issue 2 Page 177-189 - August 2002
Habitat coupling in lake ecosystems
Daniel E.Schindler and Mark D.Scheuerell
Lakes are complex ecosystems composed of distinct habitats coupled by biological, physical and chemical processes. While the ecological and evolutionary characteristics of aquatic organisms reflect habitat coupling in lakes, aquatic ecology has largely studied pelagic, benthic and riparian habitats in isolation from each other. Here, we summarize several ecological and evolutionary patterns that highlight the importance of habitat coupling and discuss their implications for understanding ecosystem processes in lakes. We pay special attention to fishes because they play particularly important roles as habitat couplers as a result of their high mobility and flexible foraging tactics that lead to inter-habitat omnivory. Habitat coupling has important consequences for nutrient cycling, predator-prey interactions, and food web structure and stability. For example, nutrient excretion by benthivorous consumers can account for a substantial fraction of inputs to pelagic nutrient cycles. Benthic resources also subsidize carnivore populations that have important predatory effects on plankton communities. These benthic subsidies stabilize population dynamics of pelagic carnivores and intensify the strength of their interactions with planktonic food webs. Furthermore, anthropogenic disturbances such as eutrophication, habitat modification, and exotic species introductions may severely alter habitat connections and, therefore, the fundamental flows of nutrients and energy in lake ecosystems.
Озера: литофильная фауна литорали.
Freshwater Biology
Volume 39 Issue 3 Page 577-592 - May 1998
The fauna in the upper stony littoral of Danish lakes: macroinvertebrates as trophic indicators
Klaus P. Brodersen, Peter C. Dall AND Claus Lindegaard
1. The macroinvertebrate fauna living on stones in the exposed stony littorals of
thirty-nine Danish lakes were examined by multivariate numerical methods. The data
were derived from 125 semi-quantitative samples and a species list of 126 taxa. The
mean number of individuals per sample was 960, and among the most common taxa
were Asellus aquaticus, Gammarus, Oulimnius, Tinodes, Cricotopus and
Dicrotendipes.
2. The total number of species and fourteen individual taxa were positively
correlated to mean depth of the lakes and eleven taxa were correlated to the total
phosphorus concentration. The Shannon diversity was negatively correlated to the
chlorophyll a concentration ([Chla]).
3. Community patterns were examined by detrended correspondence analysis
(DCA), and the relationship between species data and selected environmental
variables was analysed by canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). Mean lake
depth was found to be the strongest environmental variable in explaining the species
data. The [Chla] and Secchi depth also explained significant variation in the
distribution of the stony littoral invertebrates. Wind fetch and relative exposure did
not explain any variation in the faunal composition among sites.
4. The abilities of the macroinvertebrates to predict the lake trophic state, expressed
as log ([Chla]), were explored by means of weighted averaging (WA) regression
and calibration. Two tolerance-weighted WA models using inverse and classical
regression for deshrinking are presented. The models were assessed by the root
mean square error (RMSE) of prediction, using bootstrapping as cross validation,
and by the correlation between observed and inferred log ([Chla]). The model using
inverse deshrinking had a RMSEboot=0.41 and r2=0.63. By using classical
regression, the predictability in the ends of the gradient was improved but the
RMSE increased: RMSEboot=0.46.
5. Although the factors determining faunal distribution patterns in the Danish
lowland lakes were highly multivariate and difficult to disentangle, it seems
reasonable to use the WA estimated species optima and tolerances to [Chla] in a
bio-assessment model.
Бентос в целом. Бентос: расселение.
Freshwater Biology
Volume 47 Issue 3 Page 483 - March 2002
Расселение водных организмов околоводными птицами:
обзор наработок и приоритетные направления дальнейших исследований.
Dispersal of aquatic organisms by waterbirds: a review of past research and
priorities for future studies
JORDI FIGUEROLA & ANDY J. GREEN
1.Inland wetlands constitute ecological islands of aquatic habitat often isolated by
huge areas of non-suitable terrestrial habitats. Although most aquatic organisms lack
the capacity to disperse by themselves to neighbouring catchments, many species
present widespread distributions consistent with frequent dispersal by migratory
waterbirds.
2.A literature review indicates that bird-mediated passive transport of propagules of
aquatic invertebrates and plants is a frequent process in the field, at least at a local
scale. Both endozoochory (internal transport) and ectozoochory (external transport)
are important processes.
3.The characteristics of the dispersed and the disperser species that facilitate such
transport remain largely uninvestigated, but a small propagule size tends to favour
dispersal by both internal and external transport.
4.We review the information currently available on the processes of waterbird-
mediated dispersal, establishing the limits of current knowledge and highlighting
problems with research methods used in previous studies. We also identify studies
required in the future to further our understanding of the role of such dispersal in
aquatic ecology.
Динамика бентоса: рассредоточение.
Authors: Palmer-MA Allan-JD Butman-CA
Рассредоточение как региональный регулятор локальной динамики
морского и речного макробентоса.
Dispersal as a Regional Process Affecting the Local Dynamics of Marine and Stream Benthic Invertebrates
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 1996, Vol 11, Iss 8, pp 322-326
Abstract:
Recent work has shown that benthic invertebrate assemblages
may be influenced in an ongoing fashion by dispersal. Water-
column movements of meiofauna, juvenile insects and marine
postlarvae are common and can act to alter greatly local
dynamics such as predator-prey and competitive interactions in
marine and stream ecosystems, These findings are important
because past research on the role of dispersal in invertebrate
dynamics has focused almost exclusively on how planktonic larval
supply influences the establishment, and maintenance of local
assemblages, on the colonization of newly opened sites, or an
the settlement success of new recruits. The emerging framework
is that dispersal needs to he viewed as a regional process that
may routinely influence local benthic dynamics, because fauna
can move to and from water-column dispersal 'pools' and may do
so at frequent intervals.
Бентос: общие черты пресноводных беспов.
Freshwater Biology
Volume 43 Issue 2 Page 175-205 - March 2000
Биологические черты пресноводного зообентоса.
Biological and ecological traits of benthic freshwater macroinvertebrates:
relationships and definition of groups with similar traits
Philippe Usseglio-Polatera*, Michel Bournaud, Philippe Richoux and Henri Tachet
Summary
1. Relating species traits to habitat characteristics can provide important
insights into the structure and functioning of stream communities. However,
trade-offs among species traits make it difficult to predict accurately the
functional diversity of freshwater communities. Many authors have pointed
to the value of working with groups of organisms as similar as possible in
terms of relationships among traits and have called for definition of groups
of organisms with similar suites of attributes.
2. We used multivariate analyses to examine separately the relationships
among 11 biological traits and among 11 ecological traits of 472 benthic
macroinvertebrate taxa (mainly genera). The main objective was to
demonstrate (1) potential trade-offs among traits; (2) the importance of the
different traits to separate systematic units or functional groupings; and (3)
uniform functional groups of taxa that should allow a more effective use of
macroinvertebrate biological and ecological traits.
3. We defined eight groups and 15 subgroups according to a biological trait
ordination which highlighted size (large to small), reproductive traits (K to r
strategists), food (animal to plant material) and feeding habits (predator to
scraper and/or deposit feeder) as significant factors determining the
ordination of taxa. This ordination partly preserved phylogenetic
relationships among groups.
4. Seven ecological groups and 13 ecological subgroups included organisms
with combinations of traits which should be successively more adequate in
habitats from the main channel to temporary waters, and from the crenon to
the potamic sections of rivers, and to systems situated outside the river
floodplain. These gradients corresponded to a gradual shift from (1)
rheophilic organisms that lived in the main channel of cold oligotrophic
mountain streams to (2) animals that preferred eutrophic habitats of still or
temporary waters in lowlands. The groups with similar ecological traits had
a more diverse systematic structure than those with similar biological traits.
5. Monitoring and assessment tools for the management of water resources
are generally more effective if they are based on a clear understanding of the
mechanisms that lead to the presence or absence of species groups in the
environment. We believe that groups with similar relationships among their
species traits may be useful in developing tools that measure the functional
diversity of communities.
Бентос: классификация сообществ. Австралия.
Fresh Water Biology
Volume 41 Issue 2 Page 253-268 - March 1999
Classification of macroinvertebrate communities across drainage basins
in Victoria, Australia: consequences of sampling on a broad spatial scale
for predictive modelling
R. Marchant*, A. Hirst*, R. Norris and L. Metzeling
1. Spatial scale may influence the interpretation of environmental gradients that
underlie classification and ordination analyses of lotic macroinvertebrate
communities. This could have important consequences for the spatial scale over
which predictive models derived from these multivariate analyses can be applied.
2. Macroinvertebrate community data (identified to genus or species) from edge
and main-channel habitats were obtained for sites on rivers from 25 of the 29
drainage basins in Victoria. Trends in community similarity were analysed by
carrying out separate multivariate analyses on data from the edge habitats (199 sites)
and the main-channel habitats (163 sites).
3. Hierarchical classification (UPGMA) showed that the edge data could be placed
into 11 site groups and the main-channel data into 12 site groups.
4. Ordination analysis (hybrid multidimensional scaling) showed no sharp
disjunctions between site groups in either habitat; overlap was frequent. Correlation
of the ordination patterns with environmental variables showed that edge
communities varied longitudinally within a drainage basin and from the east to the
west of Victoria. These two trends were superimposed on one another to form a
single gradient on the ordination. The taxon richness of edge communities was also
related to the species richness of macrophytes at a site. Main-channel communities
also displayed a longitudinal and a geographic gradient, but these two gradients
were uncorrelated on the ordination.
5. Community similarity only weakly reflected geographic proximity in either habitat.
A preliminary subdivision of Victoria into a series of biogeographic regions did not
match the pattern of distribution of site groups for the edge habitat, illustrating the
difficulties of applying to lotic communities a priori regionalizations based on
terrestrial features of the landscape.
6. The longitudinal gradients in the two data sets were commonly observed in data
gathered at smaller spatial scales in Victoria. The other gradients (geographic,
macrophyte), however, were either not consistently repeated or not evident at
smaller spatial scales. At small spatial scales (i.e. within a single drainage basin)
gradients were related to variables that varied over restricted ranges, e.g. mean
particle size of the substratum.
7. Species richness was very variable when plotted against river slope or distance of
site from source; both of these are measures of position on the longitudinal
gradients. In contrast to suggestions in the literature, species richness did not show
a unimodal trend on these gradients, or any other trend.
8. Environmental gradients (apart from longitudinal gradients) that underlie
predictive models of macroinvertebrate distribution are reflections of the spatial
scale on which the model has been constructed and cannot be extrapolated to
different scales. Models must be suited to the spatial scale over which predictions
are required.
Сообщества бентоса: влияние биот.факторов
Kolar-CS Rahel-FJ
Interaction of a Biotic Factor (Predator Presence) and an Abiotic Factor (Low-Oxygen) as an Influence on Benthic Invertebrate Communities
OECOLOGIA 1993, Vol 95, Iss 2, pp 210-219
UNIV-WYOMING, DEPT ZOOL & PHYSIOL, LARAMIE, WY 82071, USA
We examined the response of benthic invertebrates to hypoxia and predation risk in bioassay and behavioral experiments. In the bioassay, four invertebrate species differed widely in their tolerance of hypoxia. The mayfly, Callibaetis montanus, and the beetle larva, Hydaticus modestus, exhibited a low tolerance of hypoxia, the amphipod, Gammarus lacustris, was intermediate in its response and the caddisfly, Hesperophylax occidentalis, showed high tolerance of hypoxia. In the
behavioral experiments, we observed the response of these benthic invertebrates, which differ in locomotor abilities, to vertical oxygen and temperature gradients similar to those in an ice-covered pond. With adequate oxygen, invertebrates typically remained on the bottom substrate. As benthic oxygen declined in the absence of fish, all taxa moved above the benthic refuge to areas with higher oxygen concentrations. In the presence of fish mayflies increased activity whereas all other taxa decreased activity in response to hypoxia. Mayflies and amphipods remained in the benthic refuge longer and endured lower oxygen concentrations whereas the vertical distribution of caddisflies and beetle larvae was not influenced by the presence of fish. As benthic oxygen declined in the presence of fish, all but the beetle larva reduced activity over all oxygen concentrations compared to when fish were absent. As benthic oxygen continued to decline, mayflies and amphipods moved above the benthic refuge and were preyed upon by fish. Thus, highly mobile taxa unable to tolerate hypoxia (mayflies and amphipods) responded behaviorally to declining oxygen concentrations by migrating upward in the water column. Taxa that were less mobile (beetle larvae) or hypoxia-tolerant (caddisflies) showed less of a response. Taxa most vulnerable to fish predation (mayflies and amphipods) showed a stronger behavioral response to predator presence than those less vulnerable (caddisflies and beetle larvae). Because invertebrates differ in their ability to withstand hypoxia, episodes of winter hypoxia could have long-lasting effects on benthic invertebrate communities either by direct mortality or selective predation on less tolerant taxa.
Структура сообществ речного бентоса.
Authors: Palmer-MA Arensburger-P Botts-PS Hakenkamp-CC Reid-JW
Нарушения и структура сообществ речного бентоса - значение пятнистости и убежищ.
Disturbance and the Community Structure of Stream Invertebrates - Patch-Specific Effects and the Role of Refugia
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY 1995, Vol 34, Iss 2, pp 343-356
Abstract:
1. We have previously shown that the impact of spates on
stream invertebrates may differ among patches separated by
distances of metres or less. Here we analyse the species-
specific flood responses of larval chironomids and adult and
near mature copepods living in different patch types. Four patch
types (with eight replicates of each) were compared: the sandy
mid-channel, fine sediments around darns, coarse sediments
around dams, and dam debris. Additionally, since some fine
sediment patches had been shown previously to act as flow
refugia while others did not, we also examined species specific
responses in refugium vs. non-refugium fine sediment patches.
Detrended correspondence analysis was used to test for changes
in assemblage structure (species composition and relative
abundance).
2. Species richness was not altered in a predictable manner
by floods; the least stable patch types (mid-channel and coarse
patches) did not necessarily show reduced species richness
during the spate.
3. As indicated by the spread of DCA ordination scores,
there was generally a high degree of overlap in the species
composition among the four patch types. Nevertheless, copepod
species composition and relative abundance were more similar
among patch types during the spate than pre-spate. Spates may
induce a re-distribution of copepod species among the patch
types. Chironomid species composition and relative abundance
were no more similar among patch types during the spate than pre-
or post-spate.
4. For both chironomids and copepods, species composition
and relative abundance (as assessed by DCA ordination scores) in
refugium patches changed more in response to the spate than in
the non-refugium patches. An influx of individuals from just a
few species for each group was responsible for the change in
assemblage structure. Thus, despite the fact that our past work
has shown that refugia may confer enhanced resistance and
resilience of copepod and chironomid assemblages in terms of
total faunal abundances, the present work suggests that
resistance and resilience of the species composition of the
community apparently are no greater in refugium patches than in
non-refugium patches.
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