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Heilpern SA, Wootton JT. Process catalyzers in Amazonian rivers: large woody debris modifies ecosystem processes across freshwater habitats. Ecosphere 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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- Sebastian A. Heilpern
- Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Chicago 1101 East 57th Street Chicago Illinois 60637 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Chicago 1101 East 57th Street Chicago Illinois 60637 USA
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Vrebos D, Beauchard O, Meire P. The impact of land use and spatial mediated processes on the water quality in a river system. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 601-602:365-373. [PMID: 28570971 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2017] [Revised: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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River systems are highly complex, hierarchical and patchy systems which are greatly influenced by both catchment surroundings and in-stream processes. Natural and anthropogenic land uses and processes affect water quality (WQ) through different pathways and scales. Understanding under which conditions these different river and catchment properties become dominant towards water chemistry remains a challenge. In this study we analyzed the impact of land use and spatial scales on a range of WQ variables within the Kleine Nete catchment in Belgium. Multivariate statistics and spatial descriptors (Moran's and Asymmetric Eigenvector Maps) were used to assess changes in water chemistry throughout the catchment. Both land use and complex mixes of spatial descriptors of different scales were found to be significantly associated to WQ parameters. However, unidirectional, upstream-downstream changes in water chemistry, often described in river systems, were not found within the Kleine Nete catchment. As different sources and processes obscure and interact with each other, it is generally difficult to understand the correct impact of different pollution sources and the predominant pathways. Our results advocate for WQ management interventions on large and small scales where needed, taking the predominate pathways in to account.
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- Dirk Vrebos
- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1c, B2610 Antwerpen, Belgium.
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- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1c, B2610 Antwerpen, Belgium; Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Wandelaarkaai 7, 8400 Oostende, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1c, B2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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Pont GD, Domingos FXV, Fernandes-de-Castilho M, Val AL. Potential of the Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) to Predict Copper Toxicity in the White-Water of the Solimões-Amazon River. BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 2017; 98:27-32. [PMID: 27888328 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-016-1986-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this study, we evaluated the capacity of the Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) to predict copper toxicity in white-waters of the Solimões-Amazon River. LC50 tests using the species Otocinclus vittatus (Regan, 1904) were performed with Solimões-Amazon river water (100%) at 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80% dilutions. A sevenfold decrease in both dissolved and total Cu toxicity was observed in the experiment conducted with 100% when compared to 20% white-water, indicating that physicochemical characteristics of white-water attenuate Cu toxicity. There was agreement between the observed LC50 and the LC50 predicted by the BLM after the adjustment of critical accumulation concentration (LA50) for O. vittatus. BLM modeling indicated that dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and pH were the most important water parameters influencing Cu toxicity, followed by Ca2+. Our results highlight the first evidence that the BLM presents potential to predict Cu toxicity to aquatic organisms in the white-water of the Solimões-Amazon River.
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- Giorgi Dal Pont
- Laboratório de Estudos em Estresse Animal, Departamento de Fisiologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, ZIP 81531-970, Brazil.
- Laboratório de Ecofisiologia e Evolução Molecular, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, ZIP 69060-001, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Ecofisiologia e Evolução Molecular, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, ZIP 69060-001, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos em Estresse Animal, Departamento de Fisiologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, ZIP 81531-970, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecofisiologia e Evolução Molecular, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, ZIP 69060-001, Brazil
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Lessmann J, Guayasamin JM, Casner KL, Flecker AS, Funk WC, Ghalambor CK, Gill BA, Jácome-Negrete I, Kondratieff BC, Poff LN, Schreckinger J, Thomas SA, Toral-Contreras E, Zamudio KR, Encalada AC. Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon basin: implications for conservation efforts. NEOTROPICAL BIODIVERSITY 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2016.1222189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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- Janeth Lessmann
- Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (LEA-USFQ). Pámpite y Diego de Robles, Cumbayá, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y el Cambio Climático – BioCamb, Ingeniería en Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos, Facultad de Ciencias de Medio Ambiente, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Chile
- Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Casilla, USA
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- Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (LEA-USFQ). Pámpite y Diego de Robles, Cumbayá, Ecuador
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- Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (LEA-USFQ). Pámpite y Diego de Robles, Cumbayá, Ecuador
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- School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y el Cambio Climático – BioCamb, Ingeniería en Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos, Facultad de Ciencias de Medio Ambiente, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (LEA-USFQ). Pámpite y Diego de Robles, Cumbayá, Ecuador
- IMAR / MARE, Department of Life Sciences, Calçada Martím de Freitas, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Vidal LO, Abril G, Artigas LF, Melo ML, Bernardes MC, Lobão LM, Reis MC, Moreira-Turcq P, Benedetti M, Tornisielo VL, Roland F. Hydrological pulse regulating the bacterial heterotrophic metabolism between Amazonian mainstems and floodplain lakes. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1054. [PMID: 26483776 PMCID: PMC4588699 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We evaluated in situ rates of bacterial carbon processing in Amazonian floodplain lakes and mainstems, during both high water (HW) and low water (LW) phases (p < 0.05). Our results showed that bacterial production (BP) was lower and more variable than bacterial respiration, determined as total respiration. Bacterial carbon demand was mostly accounted by BR and presented the same pattern that BR in both water phases. Bacterial growth efficiency (BGE) showed a wide range (0.2–23%) and low mean value of 3 and 6%, (in HW and LW, respectively) suggesting that dissolved organic carbon was mostly allocated to catabolic metabolism. However, BGE was regulated by BP in LW phase. Consequently, changes in BGE showed the same pattern that BP. In addition, the hydrological pulse effects on mainstems and floodplains lakes connectivity were found for BP and BGE in LW. Multiple correlation analyses revealed that indexes of organic matter (OM) quality (chlorophyll-a, N stable isotopes and C/N ratios) were the strongest seasonal drivers of bacterial carbon metabolism. Our work indicated that: (i) the bacterial metabolism was mostly driven by respiration in Amazonian aquatic ecosystems resulting in low BGE in either high or LW phase; (ii) the hydrological pulse regulated the bacterial heterotrophic metabolism between Amazonian mainstems and floodplain lakes mostly driven by OM quality.
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- Luciana O Vidal
- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques, Université Bordeaux 1 Bordeaux, France ; Departamento de Geoquímica, Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratoire d'Océanologie et Géosciences, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale Wimereux, France
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- Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos São Carlos, Brazil
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- Departamento de Geoquímica, Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos São Carlos, Brazil
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse Lima, Peru
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- Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot Paris, France
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- Laboratório de Ecotoxicologia, Centro de Energia Nuclear e Agricultura, São Paulo Universidade Federal de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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Maestre FT, Escolar C, Bardgett RD, Dungait JAJ, Gozalo B, Ochoa V. Warming reduces the cover and diversity of biocrust-forming mosses and lichens, and increases the physiological stress of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid Pinus halepensis plantation. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:865. [PMID: 26379642 PMCID: PMC4548238 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2015] [Accepted: 08/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Soil communities dominated by lichens and mosses (biocrusts) play key roles in maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning in drylands worldwide. However, few studies have explicitly evaluated how climate change-induced impacts on biocrusts affect associated soil microbial communities. We report results from a field experiment conducted in a semiarid Pinus halepensis plantation, where we setup an experiment with two factors: cover of biocrusts (low [<15%] versus high [>50%]), and warming (control versus a ∼2°C temperature increase). Warming reduced the richness and cover (∼45%) of high biocrust cover areas 53 months after the onset of the experiment. This treatment did not change the ratios between the major microbial groups, as measured by phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Warming increased the physiological stress of the Gram negative bacterial community, as indicated by the cy17:0/16:1ω7 ratio. This response was modulated by the initial biocrust cover, as the increase in this ratio with warming was higher in areas with low cover. Our findings suggest that biocrusts can slow down the negative effects of warming on the physiological status of the Gram negative bacterial community. However, as warming will likely reduce the cover and diversity of biocrusts, these positive effects will be reduced under climate change.
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- Fernando T Maestre
- Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles, Spain
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- Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles, Spain
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- Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems Department, Rothamsted Research, North Wyke Okehampton, UK
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- Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles, Spain
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- Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Móstoles, Spain
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Fischer AM, Ryan JP, Levesque C, Welschmeyer N. Characterizing estuarine plume discharge into the coastal ocean using fatty acid biomarkers and pigment analysis. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2014; 99:106-116. [PMID: 24838080 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2013] [Revised: 04/04/2014] [Accepted: 04/13/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The transformation of estuaries by human activities continues to alter the biogeochemical balance of the coastal ocean. The disruption of this balance can negatively impact the provision of goods and services, including fisheries, commerce and transportation, recreation and esthetic enjoyment. Here we examine a link, between the Elkhorn Slough and the coastal ocean in Monterey Bay, California (USA) using a novel application of fatty acid and pigment analysis. Fatty acid analysis of filtered water samples showed biologically distinct water types between the Elkhorn Slough plume and the receiving waters of the coastal ocean. A remarkable feature of the biological content of the plume entering the coastal ocean was the abundance of bacteria-specific fatty acids, which correlated well with concentrations of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM). Pigment analysis showed that plume waters contained higher concentrations of diatoms and cryptophytes, while the coastal ocean waters showed higher relative concentrations of dinoflagellates. Bacteria and cryptophytes can provide a source of labile, energy-rich organic matter that may be locally important as a source of food for pelagic and benthic communities. Surface and depth surveys of the plume show that the biogeochemical constituents of the slough waters are injected into the coastal waters and become entrained in the northward flowing, nearshore current of Monterey Bay. Transport of these materials to the northern portion of the bay can fuel a bloom incubator, which exists in this region. This study shows that fatty acid markers can reveal the biogeochemical interactions between estuaries and the coastal ocean and highlights how man-made changes have the potential to influence coastal ecological change.
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- Andrew M Fischer
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA; National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability, University of Tasmania, Australian Maritime College, Launceston, TAS 7250, Australia.
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA.
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA; John Abbot College, 21 275 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec H9X 3L9, Canada.
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- Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA.
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Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands. Nature 2013; 505:395-8. [DOI: 10.1038/nature12797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2013] [Accepted: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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