Article
Environmental Sciences
Elizabeth D. Hetherington, C. Anela Choy, Erik V. Thuesen, Steven H. D. Haddock
Summary: Our understanding of deep-sea communities has evolved with different sampling methods. In the study conducted in Monterey Bay, California, we found that different sampling methods have significant impacts on community composition and biomass. ROV surveys are the most effective in documenting species diversity and fragile species, while MOCNESS trawl samples have significantly lower biomass.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Feilun Wu, Yuanchi Ha, Andrea Weiss, Meidi Wang, Jeffrey Letourneau, Shangying Wang, Nan Luo, Shuquan Huang, Charlotte T. Lee, Lawrence A. David, Lingchong You
Summary: Spatial partitioning modulates the dynamics of microbial communities, promoting the persistence of populations with negative interactions and suppressing those with positive interactions. An intermediate level of partitioning maximizes the overall diversity of the community.
NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Maria Silvina Fenoglio, Ezequiel Gonzalez, Julia Tavella, Hernan Beccacecea, Maria Laura Moreno, Diego Fabian, Adriana Salvo, Elizabet Lilia Estallo, Ana Calvino
Summary: Urbanization is causing a decline in global insect populations. Green roofs, which provide habitat for plants and animals in cities, could help mitigate this decline. The study aimed to evaluate the effects of plant origin, local resources, and urbanization level on insect abundance, diversity, and community composition on green roofs.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Maria Spoljar, Mirela Sertic Peric, Haobai Wang, Chen Zhang, Natalia Kuczynska-Kippen, Jelena Fressl, Zvonimir Ercegovac
Summary: The littoral zone of shallow water bodies is highly sensitive to water level fluctuations caused by climate-related hydrologic changes. Different environmental conditions in the three temperate shallow water bodies led to variations in macrozoobenthos structure, with larger-sized macroinvertebrates dominating in turbid lakes and smaller detritivores and grazers prevailing in transparent lakes covered by submerged macrophytes.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Clare Ostle, Kevin Paxman, Carolyn A. Graves, Mathew Arnold, Luis Felipe Artigas, Angus Atkinson, Anais Aubert, Malcolm Baptie, Beth Bear, Jacob Bedford, Michael Best, Eileen Bresnan, Rachel Brittain, Derek Broughton, Alexandre Budria, Kathryn Cook, Michelle Devlin, George Graham, Nick Halliday, Pierre Helaouet, Marie Johansen, David G. Johns, Dan Lear, Margarita Machairopoulou, April McKinney, Adam Mellor, Alex Milligan, Sophie Pitois, Isabelle Rombouts, Cordula Scherer, Paul Tett, Claire Widdicombe, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop
Summary: Plankton play a crucial role in monitoring global biodiversity goals and informing ecosystem-based policy, but differences in monitoring programs hinder data integration and limit their utility at large scales. The Plankton Lifeform Extraction Tool aims to address this challenge by extracting abundance time series from disparate European datasets to provide insights into large-scale shifts in plankton lifeforms and ecosystem changes.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mei-Ling Emily Feng, Judy Che-Castaldo
Summary: Biodiversity loss is a global ecological crisis that affects various components of human-natural systems. Integrating data from different scientific domains, especially at fine temporal and spatial resolutions, can enhance understanding of species dynamics.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ilias Semmouri, Jana Asselman
Summary: Allometric scaling can be used to overcome limitations in metatranscriptomics and provide accurate estimations of community structure and functioning.
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Adam Woodhouse, Anshuman Swain, William F. F. Fagan, Andrew J. J. Fraass, Christopher M. M. Lowery
Summary: Anthropogenic climate change has caused the geographic ranges of marine organisms to shift polewards. However, it is uncertain to what extent species will move and whether these range shifts will lead to extinction. Understanding the evolution of marine biodiversity patterns and the factors influencing them is crucial in interpreting these current trends.
Article
Ecology
Lynn Govaert, Luc De Meester, Sarah Rousseaux, Steven A. J. Declerck, Jelena H. Pantel
Summary: There are limited predictions on when evolutionary processes are likely to impact community features. Research indicates that community diversity and phenotypic divergence are better predictors of the impact of evolution on community trait values, compared to environmental features or genetic properties of evolving species. The study highlights the importance of ecological context for understanding the role of evolution in shaping community features.
Article
Ecology
Susannah B. Lerman, Desiree L. Narango, Meghan L. Avolio, Anika R. Bratt, Jesse M. Engebretson, Peter M. Groffman, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Dexter H. Locke, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Josep Padulles Cubino, Tara L. E. Trammell
Summary: Urbanization has a homogenizing effect on biodiversity, but land management by residents can help mitigate this impact, especially through preserving natural areas, reducing impervious surfaces, and increasing tree canopy cover. Yard management has a positive impact on breeding bird diversity, especially wildlife-friendly yards, which support diverse bird communities with high public interest.
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shilin Xie, John M. Marzluff, Yuebo Su, Yaqing Wang, Nan Meng, Tong Wu, Cheng Gong, Fei Lu, Chaofan Xian, Yan Zhang, Zhiyun Ouyang
Summary: Urban waterbodies play a significant role in avian ecology, acting as hotspots for bird diversity in urban landscapes. Parks with waterbodies attract more bird species and resident forest birds, while surroundings with waterbodies can support a higher richness of forest bird species. These findings emphasize the importance of creating and maintaining urban waterbodies for biodiversity conservation in highly urbanized areas.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Marcus Hedblom, Anne-Caroline Prevot, Axelle Gregoire
Summary: Urban greenery is important for human health, resilient and sustainable cities, and biodiversity. However, urban sprawl and densification have reduced access and quality of urban greenery. Urban planners, architects, landscape architects, and urban ecologists have different views on nature in cities. Science fiction movies often ignore nature in their depictions of future cities and do not show innovative ways of including nature in cityscapes. Collaborating with SF artists, urban designers, and urban ecologists can help integrate nature into depictions of future cities.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Anna E. Barr, Laura J. A. van Dijk, Kristoffer Hylander, Ayco J. M. Tack
Summary: Urbanization has significant impacts on biodiversity, and understanding how local and spatial factors affect ecological communities in urban landscapes can optimize biodiversity in cities. Leaf litter and connectivity are major factors influencing oak-associated herbivore communities, and maintaining a dense network of local habitats and allowing leaf litter accumulation are crucial for preserving biodiversity in urban landscapes.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xing Chen, Qinghua Cai, Lu Tan, Shuoran Liu, Wen Xiao, Lin Ye
Summary: Small waterbodies in Northwest Yunnan are important for maintaining regional biodiversity, with a high diversity of crustacean zooplankton identified in this study. Limnological variables were found to be the key factors influencing the community structure of crustacean zooplankton in both dry and rainy seasons, highlighting the importance of these small waterbodies in maintaining regional biodiversity.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Iestyn Lloyd Penry-Williams, Ioanna Kalantzi, Eleni Tzempelikou, Manolis Tsapakis
Summary: This study investigates the spatial impact of commercial aquaculture on local meso-zooplankton communities and the bio-accumulation of aquaculturally-derived metals within zooplankton samples. The results show that aquaculture has an impact on zooplankton community composition and that metals are rapidly accumulated at lower trophic levels near aquaculture stations, and then dispersed to greater distances while ascending the trophic chain.
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Gillian K. Martin, Beatrix E. Beisner, Frederic J. J. Chain, Melania E. Cristescu, Paul A. Del Giorgio, Alison M. Derry
Summary: The relationship between population genetic structure and metacommunity structure is still unknown, but regional variation in environmental characteristics and spatial structure influences resulting biodiversity patterns differently. Metapopulations and metacommunities both exhibit greater spatial and environmental structuring at larger spatial scales, responding to different subsets of environmental variables.
Article
Limnology
Severine Martini, Floriane Larras, Aurelien Boye, Emile Faure, Nicole Aberle, Philippe Archambault, Lise Bacouillard, Beatrix E. Beisner, Lucie Bittner, Emmanuel Castella, Michael Danger, Olivier Gauthier, Lee Karp-Boss, Fabien Lombard, Frederic Maps, Lars Stemmann, Eric Thiebaut, Philippe Usseglio-Polatera, Meike Vogt, Martin Laviale, Sakina-Dorothee Ayata
Summary: Aquatic ecologists are urged to use functional trait-based approaches and follow specific development paths outlined in this framework, including unifying definitions, utilizing databases, and synthesizing traditional and innovative methods, to address scientific challenges and foster opportunities for future research.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Zofia E. Taranu, Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Pierre Legendre
Summary: This study explores the role of environmental heterogeneity in driving species distributions and interactions across three trophic levels in lake ecosystems. The results show that zooplankton play a key role in connecting phytoplankton and fish communities in Quebec lakes. Environmental gradients strongly drive the losses or gains in species richness and interactions within these ecosystems.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Melanie Desrosiers, Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Charlotte Spilmont
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Alessandra Giani, Zofia E. Taranu, David Levesque, Ilinca Marinescu, Deborah Kufner, El-Amine Mimouni, Maryse Robert
Summary: The study confirms that urban waterbodies are significant sources of biodiversity and demonstrates that foodweb-based biological indicators are reliable tools for monitoring urban waterbodies. Biodiversity and community structure in food webs are more influenced by habitat complexity than trophic status. Key determinants of variation include differences in water regime, management practices of temporary and permanent waterbodies, and variations in habitat complexity based on pond origin and macrophyte cover.
Article
Ecology
Cindy Paquette, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Beatrix E. Beisner
Summary: The study examined the composition and diversity of crustacean zooplankton across different spatial scales in Canada. The results showed distinct differences in taxonomic and functional composition when considered by continental basin, with alpha-diversity varying greatly across space. Beta-diversity was mainly driven by richness differences across all spatial and biodiversity dimensions.
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Naila Barbosa da Costa, Vincent Fugere, Marie-Pier Hebert, Charles C. Y. Xu, Rowan D. H. Barrett, Beatrix E. Beisner, Graham Bell, Viviane Yargeau, Gregor F. Fussmann, Andrew Gonzalez, B. Jesse Shapiro
Summary: This study examined the resistance and resilience of bacterioplankton communities to common pesticides, showing that high doses of glyphosate altered community structure while maintaining functional redundancy. Communities exhibited resilience at broad taxonomic levels, but not at finer taxonomic resolution. Long-term impacts of glyphosate at finer taxonomic levels require further investigation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marie-Pier Hebert, Beatrix E. Beisner, Milla Rautio, Gregor F. Fussmann
Summary: Research suggests that delaying ice cover onset can impact pelagic food web processes and phenologies, such as increasing algal resource and primary consumer densities in early winter, expanding winter-active consumer populations, and altering nutritional structure after ice-off.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Abir Chemli, Zofia E. Taranu, Andrea Bertolo
Summary: In this study, zooplankton was used as a model to investigate the relationship between biodiversity components and lake typology. The results showed that lake trophic status and fish community were the main factors influencing zooplankton community structure. Different lake types had distinct zooplankton compositions, which could be determined by the distribution patterns of zooplankton species.
Article
Microbiology
Philippe Le Noac'h, Vincent Ouellet Jobin, Beatrix E. Beisner
Summary: In phytoplankton communities, spatial overlap may promote competitive exclusion and reduce taxonomic diversity, while also fostering functional diversity. This study found that alterations in lake physical structure and zooplankton community had a stronger impact on phytoplankton diversity than spatial overlap. However, some effects of spatial overlap on competitive interactions were still observable in the system.
Article
Limnology
Cindy Paquette, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Beatrix E. Beisner
Summary: Canada has a fragmented understanding of the ecological status of its lakes, which are home to many bioindicators called zooplankton. Factors like lake morphometry and water quality significantly influence the diversity and composition of zooplankton communities. The effect of environmental drivers on zooplankton varies across different continental watersheds in Canada.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Cindy Paquette, Katherine Griffiths, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Beatrix E. Beisner
Summary: 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.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Limnology
Marie-Pier Hebert, Cynthia Soued, Gregor F. Fussmann, Beatrix E. Beisner
Summary: Lakes around the world are undergoing significant physicochemical changes, including increases in dissolved organic carbon, nutrients, water color, and surface temperature. However, our understanding of the structural and functional responses of multitrophic plankton communities to these changes is limited.
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Nicolas F. St-Gelais, Paul A. del Giorgio, Beatrix E. Beisner
Summary: This study examined the effects of functional traits and diversity on crustacean zooplankton productivity in 84 Canadian lakes. The study found that zooplankton production rates were positively linked to dominance by specific feeding traits (Daphnia filtration and Chydorus filtration) with lower functional evenness. After accounting for environmental factors, the effect of functional composition on production was comparable to the aggregate effect of environmental variables. Therefore, the functional community structure of zooplankton plays an important role in regulating a pivotal lake ecosystem function.
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Louis Tanguay, Laura M. Herzog, Rene Audet, Beatrix E. Beisner, Romina Martin, Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Summary: Climate change effects are already being felt around the globe, and governance systems need to adapt to foster greater resilience in social-ecological systems (SES). Anticipatory governance is proposed as a concept for this purpose, but its definition and practical use remain vague. This paper reviews the concept and analyzes two social-ecological systems to identify criteria and opportunities for anticipatory governance.