Congruence between functional and taxonomic patterns of benthic and planktonic assemblages in flatland ponds

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-72

  Trigal, C ^a   Fernandez Alaez, C ^b   Fernandez Alaez, M ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Macroinvertebrates; Phytoplankton; Ponds; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; POND;

EID: 84891661774     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00027-013-0312-9     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. APHA (1989) Standard methods for the examination of water and waste water, 17th edn. American Public Health Association, Washington DC.
2. Arndt H (1993) Rotifers as predators on components of the microbial web (Bacteria, Heterotrophic Flagellates, Ciliates)-a review. Hydrobiologia 255: 231-246. doi: 10. 1007/Bf00025844.
3. Barnett A, Beisner BE (2007) Zooplankton biodiversity and lake trophic state: explanations invoking resource abundance and distribution. Ecology 88(7): 1675-1686. doi: 10. 1890/06-1056. 1.
4. Barnett AJ, Finlay K, Beisner BE (2007) Functional diversity of crustacean zooplankton communities: towards a trait-based classification. Freshw Biol 52(5): 796-813. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2427. 2007. 01733. X.
5. Bazzanti M, Mastrantuono L, Solimini AG (2012) Selecting macroinvertebrate taxa and metrics to assess eutrophication in different depth zones of Mediterranean lakes. Fundam Appl Limnol 180(2): 133-143. doi: 10. 1127/1863-9135/2012/0200.
6. Beisner BE, Peres PR, Lindstrom ES, Barnett A, Longhi ML (2006) The role of environmental and spatial processes in structuring lake communities from bacteria to fish. Ecology 87(12): 2985-2991. doi: 10. 1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2985: troeas]2. 0. co;2.
7. Burks RL, Jeppesen E, Lodge DM (2001) Littoral zone structures as Daphnia refugia against fish predators. Limnol Oceanogr 46(2): 230-237.
8. Burks RL, Lodge DM, Jeppesen E, Lauridsen TL (2002) Diel horizontal migration of zooplankton: costs and benefits of inhabiting the littoral. Freshw Biol 47(3): 343-365. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2427. 2002. 00824. x.
9. Chapin FS, Shaver GR (1985) Individualistic growth-response of tundra plant-species to environmental manipulations in the field. Ecology 66(2): 564-576.
10. Cheruvelil KS, Soranno PA, Madsen JD, Roberson MJ (2002) Plant architecture and epiphytic macroinvertebrate communities: the role of an exotic dissected macrophyte. J N Am Benthol Soc 21(2): 261-277. doi: 10. 2307/1468414.
11. Clarke KR, Ainsworth M (1993) A method of linking multivariate community structure to environmental variables. Mar Ecol-Prog Ser 92: 205-219.
12. Collinson NH, Biggs J, Corfield A, Hodson MJ, Walker D, Whitfield M, Williams PJ (1995) Temporary and permanent ponds-an assessment of the effects of drying out on the conservation value of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities. Biol Conserv 74(2): 125-133. doi: 10. 1016/0006-3207(95)00021-U.
13. Cottenie K (2005) Integrating environmental and spatial processes in ecological community dynamics. Ecol Lett 8(11): 1175-1182. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1461-0248. 2005. 00820. x.
14. Diehl S (1992) Fish predation and benthic community structure: the role of omnivory and habitat complexity. Ecology 73(5): 1646-1661. doi: 10. 2307/1940017.
15. Dodson SI, Lillie RA, Will-Wolf S (2005) Land use, water chemistry, aquatic vegetation, and zooplankton community structure of shallow lakes. Ecol Appl 15(4): 1191-1198. doi: 10. 1890/04-1494.
16. Dolson R, McCann K, Rooney N, Ridgway M (2009) Lake morphometry predicts the degree of habitat coupling by a mobile predator. Oikos 118(8): 1230-1238. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1600-0706. 2009. 17351. X.
17. Fonseca BM, Bicudo CED (2010) How important can the presence/absence of macrophytes be in determining phytoplankton strategies in two tropical shallow reservoirs with different trophic status? J Plankton Res 32(1): 31-46. doi: 10. 1093/Plankt/Fbp107.
18. Gilinsky E (1984) The role of fish predation and spatial heterogeneity in determining benthic community structure. Ecology 65(2): 455-468. doi: 10. 2307/1941408.
19. Hansson LA, Nicolle A, Brodersen J, Romare P, Nilsson PA, Bronmark C, Skov C (2007) Consequences of fish predation, migration, and juvenile ontogeny on zooplankton spring dynamics. Limnol Oceanogr 52(2): 696-706.
20. Havens KE (2008) Cyanobacteria blooms: effects on aquatic ecosystems. Cyanobact Harmful Algal Blooms: State Sci Res Needs 619: 733-747.
21. Heino J (2008) Patterns of functional biodiversity and function-environment relationships in lake littoral macroinvertebrates. Limnol Oceanogr 53(4): 1446-1455. doi: 10. 4319/lo. 2008. 53. 4. 1446.
22. Heino J (2011) A macroecological perspective of diversity patterns in the freshwater realm. Freshw Biol 56(9): 1703-1722. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2427. 2011. 02610. x.
23. Heino J, Muotka T, Paavola R, Hämäläinen H, Koskenniemi E (2002) Correspondence between Regional Delineations and Spatial Patterns in Macroinvertebrate Assemblages of Boreal Headwater Streams. J N Am Benthol Soc 21(3): 397-413. doi: 10. 2307/1468478.
24. Heino J, Mykra H, Kotanen J, Muotka T (2007) Ecological filters and variability in stream macroinvertebrate communities: do taxonomic and functional structure follow the same path? Ecography 30(2): 217-230. doi: 10. 1111/j. 2007. 0906-7590. 04894. x.
25. Heino J, Tolonen KT, Kotanen J, Paasivirta L (2009) Indicator groups and congruence of assemblage similarity, species richness and environmental relationships in littoral macroinvertebrates. Biodivers Conserv 18(12): 3085-3098. doi: 10. 1007/s10531-009-9626-2.
26. Hoeinghaus DJ, Winemiller KO, Birnbaum JS (2007) Local and regional determinants of stream fish assemblage structure: inferences based on taxonomic vs. functional groups. J Biogeogr 34(2): 324-338. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2699. 2006. 01587. X.
27. Hoffmann MD, Dodson SI (2005) Land use, primary productivity, and lake area as descriptors of zooplankton diversity. Ecology 86(1): 255-261. doi: 10. 1890/03-0833.
28. Jeppesen E, Jensen JP, Jensen C, Faafeng B, Hessen DO, Sondergaard M, Lauridsen T, Brettum P, Christoffersen K (2003) The impact of nutrient state and lake depth on top-down control in the pelagic zone of lakes: a study of 466 lakes from the temperate zone to the arctic. Ecosystems 6(4): 313-325. doi: 10. 1007/S10021-002-0145-1.
29. Johnson RK, Hering D (2010) Spatial congruency of benthic diatom, invertebrate, macrophyte, and fish assemblages in European streams. Ecol Appl 20(4): 978-992. doi: 10. 1890/08-1153. 1.
30. Johnson RK, Goedkoop W, Sandin L (2004) Spatial scale and ecological relationships between the macroinvertebrate communities of stony habitats of streams and lakes. Freshw Biol 49(9): 1179-1194. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2427. 2004. 01262. X.
31. Jones JI, Waldron S (2003) Combined stable isotope and gut contents analysis of food webs in plant-dominated, shallow lakes. Freshw Biol 48(8): 1396-1407. doi: 10. 1046/J. 1365-2427. 2003. 01095. X.
32. Kovalenko KE, Thomaz SM, Warfe DM (2012) Habitat complexity: approaches and future directions. Hydrobiologia 685(1): 1-17. doi: 10. 1007/S10750-011-0974-Z.
33. Kruk C, Mazzeo N, Lacerot G, Reynolds CS (2002) Classification schemes for phytoplankton: a local validation of a functional approach to the analysis of species temporal replacement. J Plankton Res 24(9): 901-912. doi: 10. 1093/plankt/24. 9. 901.
34. Lopes PM, Caliman A, Carneiro LS, Bini LM, Esteves FA, Farjalla V, Bozelli RL (2011) Concordance among assemblages of upland Amazonian lakes and the structuring role of spatial and environmental factors. Ecol Indic 11(5): 1171-1176. doi: 10. 1016/j. ecolind. 2010. 12. 017.
35. MacArthur R, Wilson EO (1967) The theory of island biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
36. Marklund O, Sandsten H, Hansson LA, Blindow I (2002) Effects of waterfowl and fish on submerged vegetation and macroinvertebrates. Freshw Biol 47(11): 2049-2059. doi: 10. 1046/J. 1365-2427. 2002. 00949. X.
37. McCann KS, Rasmussen JB, Umbanhowar J (2005) The dynamics of spatially coupled food webs. Ecol Lett 8(5): 513-523. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1461-0248. 2005. 00742. X.
38. Meerhoff M, Fosalba C, Bruzzone C, Mazzeo N, Noordoven W, Jeppesen E (2006) An experimental study of habitat choice by Daphnia: plants signal danger more than refuge in subtropical lakes. Freshw Biol 51(7): 1320-1330. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2427. 2006. 01574. X.
39. Meerhoff M, Clemente JM, De Mello FT, Iglesias C, Pedersen AR, Jeppesen E (2007) Can warm climate-related structure of littoral predator assemblies weaken the clear water state in shallow lakes? Glob Change Biol 13(9): 1888-1897. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2486. 2007. 01408. X.
40. Merrit RW, Cummins KW (1984) An introduction to the insects of North America, 2nd edn. Kendall/Hunt, New York.
41. Moss B, Stephen D, Alvarez C, Becares E, van de Bund W, Collings SE, van Donk E, De Eyto E, Feldmann T, Fernandez-Alaez C, Fernandez-Alaez M, Franken RJM, Garcia-Criado F, Gross EM, Gyllstrom M, Hansson LA, Irvine K, Jarvalt A, Jensen JP, Jeppesen E, Kairesalo T, Kornijow R, Krause T, Kunnap H, Laas A, Lille E, Lorens B, Luup H, Miracle MR, Noges P, Noges T, Nykanen M, Ott I, Peczula W, Peeters ETHM, Phillips G, Romo S, Russell V, Salujoe J, Scheffer M, Siewertsen K, Smal H, Tesch C, Timm H, Tuvikene L, Tonno I, Virro T, Vicente E, Wilson D (2003) The determination of ecological status in shallow lakes-a tested system (ECOFRAME) for implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. Aquat Conserv-Mar Freshw Ecosyst 13(6): 507-549. doi: 10. 1002/Aqc. 592.
42. Mulderij G, van Nes EH, van Donk E (2007) Macrophyte-phytoplankton interactions: the relative importance of allelopathy versus other factors. Ecol Model 204(1-2): 85-92. doi: 10. 1016/J. Ecolmodel. 2006. 12. 020.
43. Muylaert K, Perez-Martinez C, Sanchez-Castillo P, Lauridsen TL, Vanderstukken M, Declerck SAJ, van der Gucht K, Conde-Porcuna JM, Jeppesen E, De Meester L, Vyverman W (2010) Influence of nutrients, submerged macrophytes and zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton biomass and diversity along a latitudinal gradient in Europe. Hydrobiologia 653(1): 79-90. doi: 10. 1007/S10750-010-0345-1.
44. Mykra H, Heino J, Muotka T (2008) Concordance of stream macroinvertebrate assemblage classifications: how general are patterns from single-year surveys? Biol Conserv 141(5): 1218-1223. doi: 10. 1016/j. biocon. 2008. 02. 017.
45. Nixdorf B, Deneke R (1997) Why 'very shallow' lakes are more successful opposing reduced nutrient loads. Hydrobiologia 342: 269-284. doi: 10. 1023/A: 1017012012099.
46. Norlin JI, Bayley SE, Ross LCM (2005) Submerged macrophytes, zooplankton and the predominance of low- over high-chlorophyll states in western boreal, shallow-water wetlands. Freshw Biol 50(5): 868-881. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2427. 2005. 01366. x.
47. Oertli B, Auderset Joye D, Castella E, Juge R, Cambin D, Lachavanne JB (2002) Does size matter? The relationship between pond area and biodiversity. Biol Conserv 104(1): 59-70. doi: 10. 1016/S0006-3207(01)00154-9.
48. Oksanen J, Blanchet F, Kindt R, Legendre P, O'Hara R, Simpson G, Stevens M, Wagner H (2011) Vegan: community ecology package. Version 1. 17-11.
49. Olden JD (2003) A species-specific approach to modeling biological communities and its potential for conservation. Conserv Biol 17(3): 854-863. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1523-1739. 2003. 01280. x.
50. Olden JD, Joy MK, Death RG (2006) Rediscovering the species in community-wide predictive modeling. Ecol Appl 16(4): 1449-1460. doi: 10. 1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1449: rtsicp]2. 0. co;2.
51. Paavola R, Muotka T, Virtanen R, Heino J, Jackson D, Maki-Petays A (2006) Spatial scale affects community concordance among fishes, benthic macroinvertebrates, and bryophytes in streams. Ecol Appl 16(1): 368-379. doi: 10. 1890/03-5410.
52. Pennak RW (1973) Some evidence for aquatic macrophytes as repellents for a limnetic species of daphnia. Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie 58(4): 569-576.
53. Pinder LCV (1986) Biology of freshwater Chironomidae. Annu Rev Entomol 31: 1-23. doi: 10. 1146/annurev. en. 31. 010186. 000245.
54. Pinel-Alloul B, Niyonsenga T, Legendre P (1995) Spatial and environmental components of freshwater zooplankton structure. Ecoscience 2(1): 1-19.
55. Post DM, Pace ML, Hairston NG (2000) Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes. Nature 405(6790): 1047-1049. doi: 10. 1038/35016565.
56. R Development Core Team (2012) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
57. Reynolds CS, Huszar V, Kruk C, Naselli-Flores L, Melo S (1997) Towards a functional classification of the freshwater phytoplankton. J Plankton Res 24: 417-428.
58. Rosenzweig ML (1995) Species diversity in space and time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
59. Sanders RW, Porter KG, Bennett SJ, Debiase AE (1989) Seasonal patterns of bacterivory by Flagellates, Ciliates, Rotifers, and Cladocerans in a fresh-water planktonic community. Limnol Oceanogr 34(4): 673-687.
60. Schriver P, Bogestrand J, Jeppesen E, Sondergaard M (1995) Impact of submerged macrophytes on fish-zooplankton-phytoplankton interactions-large-scale enclosure experiments in a shallow eutrophic lake. Freshw Biol 33(2): 255-270. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2427. 1995. Tb01166. X.
61. Sinistro R, Izaguirre I, Asikian V (2006) Experimental study on the microbial plankton community in a South American wetland (Lower Parand River Basin) and the effect of the light deficiency due to the floating macrophytes. J Plankton Res 28(8): 753-768. doi: 10. 1093/Plankt/Fbl008.
62. Sondergaard M, Moss B (1998) Impact of submerged macrophytes on phytoplankton in shallow freshwater lakes. Ecol Stu An 131: 115-132.
63. Stephen D, Balayla DM, Becares E, Collings SE, Fernandez-Alaez C, Fernandez-Alaez M, Ferriol C, Garcia P, Goma J, Gyllstrom M, Hansson LA, Hietala J, Kairesalo T, Miracle MR, Romo S, Rueda J, Stahl-Delbanco A, Svensson M, Vakkilainen K, Valentin M, van de Bund WJ, van Donk E, Vicente E, Villena MJ, Moss B (2004) Continental-scale patterns of nutrient and fish effects on shallow lakes: introduction to a pan-European mesocosm experiment. Freshw Biol 49(12): 1517-1524. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2427. 2004. 01302. x.
64. Tachet H, Richoux P, Bournaud M, Usseglio-Polaterra P (2002) Invertebres d'Eau Douce: Systematique, Biologie, Ecologie. CNRS Editions, Paris.
65. Teixeira-de Mello F, Meerhoff M, Pekcan-Hekim Z, Jeppesen E (2009) Substantial differences in littoral fish community structure and dynamics in subtropical and temperate shallow lakes. Freshw Biol 54(6): 1202-1215. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2427. 2009. 02167. X.
66. Tolonen KT, Hamalainen H, Holopainen IJ, Karjalainen J (2001) Influences of habitat type and environmental variables on littoral macroinvertebrate communities in a large lake system. Arch Hydrobiol 152(1): 39-67.
67. Tolonen KT, Holopainen IJ, Hamalainen H, Rahkola-Sorsa M, Ylostalo P, Mikkonen K, Karjalainen J (2005) Littoral species diversity and biomass: concordance among organismal groups and the effects of environmental variables. Biodivers Conserv 14(4): 961-980. doi: 10. 1007/s10531-004-8414-2.
68. Trigal C, Garcia-Criado F, Fernandez-Alaez C (2009) Towards a multimetric index for ecological assessment of Mediterranean flatland ponds: the use of macroinvertebrates as bioindicators. Hydrobiologia 618: 109-123. doi: 10. 1007/s10750-008-9569-8.
69. Utermölh (1958) Zur vervollkommnung der quantative phytoplankton-methodik. Mitteilungen aus Institut Verhein Limnologie 9.
70. Vadeboncoeur Y, Vander Zanden MJ, Lodge DM (2002) Putting the lake back together: reintegrating benthic pathways into lake food web models. Bioscience 52(1): 44-54. doi: 10. 1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0044: Ptlbtr]2. 0. Co;2.
71. Vakkilainen K, Kairesalo T, Hietala J, Balayla DM, Becares E, van de Bund WJ, van Donk E, Fernandez-Alaez M, Gyllstrom M, Hansson LA, Miracle MR, Moss B, Romo S, Rueda J, Stephen D (2004) Response of zooplankton to nutrient enrichment and fish in shallow lakes: a pan-European mesocosm experiment. Freshw Biol 49(12): 1619-1632. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1365-2427. 2004. 01300. x.
72. Vanderstukken M, Mazzeo N, van Colen W, Declerck SAJ, Muylaert K (2011) Biological control of phytoplankton by the subtropical submerged macrophytes Egeria densa and Potamogeton illinoensis: a mesocosm study. Freshw Biol 56(9): 1837-1849. doi: 10. 1111/J. 1365-2427. 2011. 02624. X.
73. Villéger S, Miranda JR, Hernandez DF, Mouillot D (2012) Low functional β-diversity despite high taxonomic β-diversity among tropical estuarine fish communities. PLoS One 7(7): e40679. doi: 10. 1371/journal. pone. 0040679.
74. Warfe DM, Barmuta LA (2006) Habitat structural complexity mediates food web dynamics in a freshwater macrophyte community. Oecologia 150(1): 141-154. doi: 10. 1007/S00442-006-0505-1.
75. Yates A, Bailey R (2010) Covarying patterns of macroinvertebrate and fish assemblages along natural and human activity gradients: implications for bioassessment. Hydrobiologia 637(1): 87-100. doi: 10. 1007/s10750-009-9987-2.
76. Zankai NP (1991) Feeding of Nauplius Stages of Eudiaptomus-Gracilis on Mixed Plastic Beads. J Plankton Res 13(2): 437-453. doi: 10. 1093/Plankt/13. 2. 437.