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Drapeau Picard A, Mazerolle MJ, Larrivée M, Rochefort L. Impact of pool design on spider and dytiscid recolonization patterns in a restored fen. Restor Ecol 2021; 29. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Santos JSD, Dodonov P, Oshima JEF, Martello F, Santos de Jesus A, Eduardo Ferreira M, Silva-neto CM, Ribeiro MC, Collevatti RG. Landscape ecology in the Anthropocene: an overview for integrating agroecosystems and biodiversity conservation. Perspect Ecol Conserv 2021; 19:21-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2020.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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- Katharina Strobl
- Chair of Restoration Ecology Technical University of Munich Emil‐Ramann‐Str. 6 85354 Freising Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Landscape, Zoology & Animal Ecology University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan‐Triesdorf Weihenstephaner Berg 5 85354 Freising Germany
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- Chair of Restoration Ecology Technical University of Munich Emil‐Ramann‐Str. 6 85354 Freising Germany
- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) PO Box 115, 1431 Ås Norway
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Stauffer-Olsen NJ, Carter JL, Fend SV. Spatial and Temporal Variability in Benthic Invertebrate Assemblages in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Northwest Science 2017. [DOI: 10.3955/046.091.0306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Natalie J. Stauffer-Olsen
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 137 Mulford Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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- US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road MS 496, Menlo Park, California 94025
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- US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road MS 496, Menlo Park, California 94025
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Orru M, Ots K, Orru H. Re-vegetation processes in cutaway peat production fields in Estonia in relation to peat quality and water regime. Environ Monit Assess 2016; 188:655. [PMID: 27826820 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5669-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Eighty-one cutaway peat production fields with a total area of about 9000 ha exist and were studied in Estonia in 2005-2015. Only a very small number of the fields (seven) have been restored-either afforested or used for growing berries. The re-vegetation of Estonian cutaway peat production fields is mainly the result of natural processes, which are generally very slow due to an unfavourable water regime or a too thin remaining peat layer. The fields are mostly covered by cotton grass and birches. Often sparse vegetation covers 15-20% of a peat field, but some fields have turned into heaths or grasslands with plant coverage up to 60%. However, due to changes in environmental (mainly hydrological) conditions and peat characteristics (mainly peat type), these areas can also be new niches for several species. A number of moss species new to or rare in Estonia, e.g. Pohlia elongata, Ephemerum serratum, Campylopus introflexus and Bryum oblongum, were recorded.
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- Mall Orru
- Department of Mining, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086, Tallinn, Estonia.
- Geological Survey of Estonia, Kadaka tee 82, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia.
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- Department of Silviculture, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, SE-901 87, Umea, Sweden
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Brown LE, Ramchunder SJ, Beadle JM, Holden J. Macroinvertebrate community assembly in pools created during peatland restoration. Sci Total Environ 2016; 569-570:361-372. [PMID: 27348701 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2016] [Revised: 06/10/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Many degraded ecosystems are subject to restoration attempts, providing new opportunities to unravel the processes of ecological community assembly. Restoration of previously drained northern peatlands, primarily to promote peat and carbon accumulation, has created hundreds of thousands of new open water pools. We assessed the potential benefits of this wetland restoration for aquatic biodiversity, and how communities reassemble, by comparing pool ecosystems in regions of the UK Pennines on intact (never drained) versus restored (blocked drainage-ditches) peatland. We also evaluated the conceptual idea that comparing reference ecosystems in terms of their compositional similarity to null assemblages (and thus the relative importance of stochastic versus deterministic assembly) can guide evaluations of restoration success better than analyses of community composition or diversity. Community composition data highlighted some differences in the macroinvertebrate composition of restored pools compared to undisturbed peatland pools, which could be used to suggest that alternative end-points to restoration were influenced by stochastic processes. However, widely used diversity metrics indicated no differences between undisturbed and restored pools. Novel evaluations of restoration using null models confirmed the similarity of deterministic assembly processes from the national species pool across all pools. Stochastic elements were important drivers of between-pool differences at the regional-scale but the scale of these effects was also similar across most of the pools studied. The amalgamation of assembly theory into ecosystem restoration monitoring allows us to conclude with more certainty that restoration has been successful from an ecological perspective in these systems. Evaluation of these UK findings compared to those from peatlands across Europe and North America further suggests that restoring peatland pools delivers significant benefits for aquatic fauna by providing extensive new habitat that is largely equivalent to natural pools. More generally, we suggest that assembly theory could provide new benchmarks for planning and evaluating ecological restoration success.
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- Lee E Brown
- water@leeds, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- water@leeds, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- water@leeds, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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Desjonquères C, Rybak F, Depraetere M, Gasc A, Le Viol I, Pavoine S, Sueur J. First description of underwater acoustic diversity in three temperate ponds. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1393. [PMID: 26587351 PMCID: PMC4647551 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 10/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The past decade has produced an increased ecological interest in sonic environments, or soundscapes. However, despite this rise in interest and technological improvements that allow for long-term acoustic surveys in various environments, some habitats' soundscapes remain to be explored. Ponds, and more generally freshwater habitats, are one of these acoustically unexplored environments. Here we undertook the first long term acoustic monitoring of three temperate ponds in France. By aural and visual inspection of a selection of recordings, we identified 48 different sound types, and according to the rarefaction curves we calculated, more sound types are likely present in one of the three ponds. The richness of sound types varied significantly across ponds. Surprisingly, there was no pond-to-pond daily consistency of sound type richness variation; each pond had its own daily patterns of activity. We also explored the possibility of using six acoustic diversity indices to conduct rapid biodiversity assessments in temperate ponds. We found that all indices were sensitive to the background noise as estimated through correlations with the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, we determined that the AR index could be a good candidate to measure acoustic diversities using partial correlations with the SNR as a control variable. Yet, research is still required to automatically compute the SNR in order to apply this index on a large data set of recordings. The results showed that these three temperate ponds host a high level of acoustic diversity in which the soundscapes were variable not only between but also within the ponds. The sources producing this diversity of sounds and the drivers of difference in daily song type richness variation both require further investigation. Such research would yield insights into the biodiversity and ecology of temperate ponds.
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- Camille Desjonquères
- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France ; Université Paris-Sud, Neuroscience Paris-Saclay Institute , UMR 9197, Orsay , France
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- Université Paris-Sud, Neuroscience Paris-Saclay Institute , UMR 9197, Orsay , France
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France
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- Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO UMR7204), Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC , Paris , France
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- Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO UMR7204), Museum national d'Histoire naturelle , Paris , France ; Mathematical Ecology Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford , Oxford , United Kingdom
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , Sorbonne Universités, Rue Buffon, Paris , France
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van Goethem TMWJ, Huijbregts MAJ, Wamelink GWW, Schipper AM. How to assess species richness along single environmental gradients? Implications of potential versus realized species distributions. Environ Pollut 2015; 200:120-5. [PMID: 25705854 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 02/15/2015] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Quantifying relationships between species richness and single environmental factors is challenging as species richness typically depends on multiple environmental factors. Recently, various methods have been proposed to tackle this challenge. Using a dataset comprising field observations of grassland vegetation and measured pH values, we compared three methods for deriving species richness response curves. One of the methods estimates species richness close to the maximum species richness observed at the sites, whereas the other two provide estimates of the potential species richness along the environmental gradient. Our response curves suggest that potential species richness of grasslands is slightly more sensitive to acidification than realized plant species richness. However, differences in corresponding environmental quality standards (EQS) for acidification were small compared to intrinsic spatial differences in natural soil pH, indicating that natural background values are more important to consider in the derivation of EQS for pH than methodological differences between the three approaches.
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- Thomas M W J van Goethem
- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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van Kleef HH, van Duinen GJA, Verberk WC, Leuven RS, van der Velde G, Esselink H. Moorland pools as refugia for endangered species characteristic of raised bog gradients. J Nat Conserv 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2012.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hamerlík L, Jacobsen D, Brodersen KP. Low species richness of non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Neotropical artificial urban water bodies. Urban Ecosyst 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s11252-011-0163-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Verberk W, Leuven R, van Duinen G, Esselink H. Loss of environmental heterogeneity and aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity following large-scale restoration management. Basic Appl Ecol 2010; 11:440-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2010.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Verberk WCEP, van der Velde G, Esselink H. Explaining abundance-occupancy relationships in specialists and generalists: a case study on aquatic macroinvertebrates in standing waters. J Anim Ecol 2010; 79:589-601. [PMID: 20202007 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01660.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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1. A positive interspecific abundance-occupancy relationship is one of the most robust patterns in macroecology. Yet, the mechanisms driving this pattern are poorly understood. Here, we use biological traits of freshwater macroinvertebrates to gain a mechanistic understanding and disentangle the various explanations. We ask whether mechanisms underlying the abundance-occupancy relationship differ between species, and whether information on individual species can be used to explain their contribution to the interspecific relationship. 2. We test the hypothesis that the importance of metapopulation dynamics or niche differences in explaining the relationship differs between species, varying in relation to their habitat breadth. In addition, we analyse how a species' biological traits shape its habitat breadth and its abundance and occupancy. 3. The abundance and occupancy of the 234 different aquatic macroinvertebrate species were strongly and positively related. Marked differences were found between habitat specialists and habitat generalists in the goodness-of-fit of abundance-occupancy relationships. The occupancy-frequency distribution was bimodal for habitat generalists, allowing 'satellite species' to be distinguished from 'core species'. 4. Habitat generalists appeared to be more widespread but less abundant than habitat specialists, suggesting that the jack-of-all-trades may be master-of-none. Species traits (trophic position and other life-history traits) explained a significant part of the variation around the general relationship. Among habitat specialists, more species showed synchronized life cycles, a low dispersal capacity or clustered oviposition, being better adapted to predictable habitats. Among habitat generalists, more species had long-lived adults, spreading reproductive effort in time and space, and were strong dispersers, being better adapted to unpredictable habitats. 5. Interspecific abundance-occupancy relationships can be best understood by examining the contribution of individual species. For habitat specialists, the interplay between niche differences (diet and habitat use) and the underlying spatial distribution of environmental conditions result in competitive displacement and differences in species' success. For habitat generalists, differences in colonization and extinction rates between species are more important. Therefore, both metapopulation dynamics and niche differences can operate simultaneously but apply to different species, thus constituting different endpoints of the same continuum.
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- Wilco C E P Verberk
- Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heijendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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