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Vroom R, Smolders A, Van de Riet BP, Lamers L, Güngör E, Krosse S, Verheggen-Kleinheerenbrink GM, Van der Wal NR, Kosten S. Azolla cultivation enables phosphate extraction from inundated former agricultural soils. Water Res 2024; 254:121411. [PMID: 38457945 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.121411] [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: 10/17/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
Abstract
To combat the global loss of wetlands and their essential functions, the restoration and creation of wetlands is imperative. However, wetland development is challenging when soils have been in prolonged agricultural use, often resulting in a substantial nutrient legacy, especially of phosphorous (P). Inundating these soils typically leads to P mobilization, resulting in poor water quality and low biodiversity recovery. As a potential novel means to overcome this challenge, we tested whether cultivation of the floating fern Azolla filiculoides could simultaneously extract and recycle P, and provide a commercial product. Azolla has high growth rates due to the nitrogen fixing capacity of its microbiome and is capable of luxury consumption of P. Azolla cultivation may also accelerate soil P mobilization and subsequent extraction by causing surface water anoxia and the release of iron-bound P. To test this approach, we cultivated Azolla on 15 P-rich former agricultural soils in an indoor mesocosm experiment. Soils were inundated and either left unvegetated or inoculated with A. filiculoides during two 8-week cultivation periods. Biomass was harvested at different intervals (weekly/monthly/bimonthly) to investigate the effect of harvesting frequency on oxygen (O2) and nutrient dynamics. We found that Azolla attained high growth rates only on soils with high mobilization of labile P, as plant cover did not reduce surface water O2 concentrations in the first phase after inundation. This concurred with low porewater iron to P ratios (<10) and high porewater P concentrations. A. filiculoides cultivation substantially reduced surface water nutrient concentrations and extracted P at rates up to 122 kg ha-1 yr-1. We conclude that rapid P extraction by A. filiculoides cultivation is possible on soils rich in labile P, offering new perspectives for wetland rehabilitation. Additional field trials are recommended to investigate long-term feasibility, seasonal variations, and the influence of potential grazers and pathogens.
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- Rje Vroom
- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; B-WARE Research Centre, Toernooiveld 1, Nijmegen 6525 ED, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; B-WARE Research Centre, Toernooiveld 1, Nijmegen 6525 ED, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; B-WARE Research Centre, Toernooiveld 1, Nijmegen 6525 ED, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Struik Q, Paranaíba JR, Glodowska M, Kosten S, Meulepas BMJW, Rios-Miguel AB, Jetten MSM, Lürling M, Waajen G, Nijman TPA, Veraart AJ. Fe(II)Cl2 amendment suppresses pond methane emissions by stimulating iron-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2024; 100:fiae061. [PMID: 38632040 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiae061] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Aquatic ecosystems are large contributors to global methane (CH4) emissions. Eutrophication significantly enhances CH4-production as it stimulates methanogenesis. Mitigation measures aimed at reducing eutrophication, such as the addition of metal salts to immobilize phosphate (PO43-), are now common practice. However, the effects of such remedies on methanogenic and methanotrophic communities-and therefore on CH4-cycling-remain largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that Fe(II)Cl2 addition, used as PO43- binder, differentially affected microbial CH4 cycling-processes in field experiments and batch incubations. In the field experiments, carried out in enclosures in a eutrophic pond, Fe(II)Cl2 application lowered in-situ CH4 emissions by lowering net CH4-production, while sediment aerobic CH4-oxidation rates-as found in batch incubations of sediment from the enclosures-did not differ from control. In Fe(II)Cl2-treated sediments, a decrease in net CH4-production rates could be attributed to the stimulation of iron-dependent anaerobic CH4-oxidation (Fe-AOM). In batch incubations, anaerobic CH4-oxidation and Fe(II)-production started immediately after CH4 addition, indicating Fe-AOM, likely enabled by favorable indigenous iron cycling conditions and the present methanotroph community in the pond sediment. 16S rRNA sequencing data confirmed the presence of anaerobic CH4-oxidizing archaea and both iron-reducing and iron-oxidizing bacteria in the tested sediments. Thus, besides combatting eutrophication, Fe(II)Cl2 application can mitigate CH4 emissions by reducing microbial net CH4-production and stimulating Fe-AOM.
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- Quinten Struik
- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology & Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Water Authority Brabantse Delta, 4836 AA, Breda, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Colina M, Meerhoff M, Cabrera-Lamanna L, Kosten S. Experimental warming promotes CO 2 uptake but hinders carbon incorporation toward higher trophic levels in cyanobacteria-dominated freshwater communities. Sci Total Environ 2024; 920:171029. [PMID: 38367721 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171029] [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: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/19/2024]
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Shallow freshwaters can exchange large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) with the atmosphere and also store significant quantities of carbon (C) in their sediments. Current warming and eutrophication pressures might alter the role of shallow freshwater ecosystems in the C cycle. Although eutrophication has been widely associated to an increase in total phytoplankton biomass and particularly of cyanobacteria, it is still poorly understood how warming may affect ecosystem metabolism under contrasting phytoplankton community composition. We studied the effects of experimental warming on CO2 fluxes and C allocation on two contrasting natural phytoplankton communities: chlorophytes-dominated versus cyanobacteria-dominated, both with a similar zooplankton community with a potentially high grazing capacity (i.e., standardized density of large-bodied cladocerans). The microcosms were subject to two different constant temperatures (control and +4 °C, i.e., 19.5 vs 23.5 °C) and we ensured no nutrient nor light limitation. CO2 uptake increased with warming in both communities, being the strongest in the cyanobacteria-dominated communities. However, only a comparatively minor share of the fixed C translated into increased phytoplankton (Chl-a), and particularly a negligible share translated into zooplankton biomass. Most C was either dissolved in the water (DIC) or sedimented, the latter being potentially available for mineralization into DIC and CO2, or methane (CH4) when anoxic conditions prevail. Our results suggest that C uptake increases with warming particularly when cyanobacteria dominate, however, due to the low efficiency in transfer through the trophic web the final fate of the fixed C may be substantially different in the long run.
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- Maite Colina
- Departamento de Ecología y Gestión Ambiental, Centro Universitario de la Región Este, Universidad de la República, Maldonado, Uruguay; Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Departamento de Ecología y Gestión Ambiental, Centro Universitario de la Región Este, Universidad de la República, Maldonado, Uruguay; Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Departamento de Ecología y Gestión Ambiental, Centro Universitario de la Región Este, Universidad de la República, Maldonado, Uruguay; Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Paranaíba JR, Struik Q, Erdociain M, van Dijk G, Smolders AJP, van der Knaap J, Veraart AJ, Kosten S. CO 2, CH 4, and N 2O emissions from dredged material exposed to drying and zeolite addition under field and laboratory conditions. Environ Pollut 2023; 337:122627. [PMID: 37769708 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122627] [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: 07/20/2023] [Revised: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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Dredging, the removal of sediment from water courses, is generally conducted to maintain their navigability and to improve water quality. Recent studies indicate that dredging can significantly reduce aquatic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These studies, however, do not consider the potential emission from the dredged material (sludge) in the depot. In addition, it is unknown if and how GHG emissions from sludge depots can be reduced. Here we present spatiotemporal variations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes, as well as environmental variables from a sludge depot located in the Netherlands. Measurements were conducted monthly from the time the depot was filled until the sludge was dry and the depot was abolished. We also experimentally assessed the GHG mitigation potential of 1) keeping the sludge permanently inundated, and 2) the addition of different amounts of zeolite to increase sludge nitrogen binding capacity to reduce N2O emissions. In the depot and in the laboratory, a decrease in moisture content coincided with increased CO2 and N2O emissions while CH4 emissions decreased. We observed that permanent inundation reduced emissions (∼4 times less CO2-eq than in drying sludge). Adding zeolite lowered N2O fluxes from permanently inundated sludge but did not reduce total GHG emissions. During the depot's operational period, average CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes were 5078, 27, and 5 mg m-2 d-1, respectively. GHG emissions from drying sludge occurred mainly in the form of CO2 (73% of the total CO2-eq emissions), with average GHG emission rates comparable to those reported for ditches and ponds. We estimate that approximately 14 tons of CO2-eq were emitted from the 0.011 km2 depot, which contained ∼20,000 m3 of sludge, during its entire operational period, and we argue that more studies are needed, considering different sludge origins, to expand our understanding of sludge depots.
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- José R Paranaíba
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; B-WARE Research Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; B-WARE Research Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Nijman TPA, Lemmens M, Lurling M, Kosten S, Welte C, Veraart AJ. Phosphorus control and dredging decrease methane emissions from shallow lakes. Sci Total Environ 2022; 847:157584. [PMID: 35882339 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157584] [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: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 07/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Freshwater ecosystems are an important source of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4), and their emissions are expected to increase due to eutrophication. Two commonly applied management techniques to reduce eutrophication are the addition of phosphate-binding lanthanum modified bentonite (LMB, trademark Phoslock©) and dredging, but their effect on CH4 emissions is still poorly understood. Here, this study researched how LMB and dredging affected CH4 emissions using a full-factorial mesocosm design monitored for 18 months. The effect was tested by measuring diffusive and ebullitive CH4 fluxes, plant community composition, methanogen and methanotroph activity and community composition, and a range of physicochemical water and sediment variables. LMB addition decreased total CH4 emissions, while dredging showed a trend towards decreasing CH4 emissions. Total CH4 emissions in all mesocosms were much higher in the summer of the second year, likely because of higher algal decomposition and organic matter availability. First, LMB addition lowered CH4 emissions by decreasing P-availability, which reduced coverage of the floating fern Azolla filiculoides, and thereby prevented anoxia and decreased surface water NH4+ concentrations, lowering CH4 production rates. Second, dredging decreased CH4 emissions in the first summer, possibly it removed the methanogenic community, and in the second year by preventing autumn and winter die-off of the rooted macrophyte Potamogeton cripsus. Finally, methanogen community composition was related to surface water NH4+ and O2, and porewater total phosphorus, while methanotroph community composition was related to organic matter content. To conclude, LMB addition and dredging not only improve water quality, but also decrease CH4 emissions, mitigating climate change.
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- Thomas P A Nijman
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology & Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Aben RCH, Velthuis M, Kazanjian G, Frenken T, Peeters ETHM, Van de Waal DB, Hilt S, de Senerpont Domis LN, Lamers LPM, Kosten S. Temperature response of aquatic greenhouse gas emissions differs between dominant plant types. Water Res 2022; 226:119251. [PMID: 36288666 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119251] [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: 03/18/2022] [Revised: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from small inland waters are disproportionately large. Climate warming is expected to favor dominance of algae and free-floating plants at the expense of submerged plants. Through different routes these functional plant types may have far-reaching impacts on freshwater GHG emissions in future warmer waters, which are yet unknown. We conducted a 1,000 L mesocosm experiment testing the effects of plant type and warming on GHG emissions from temperate inland waters dominated by either algae, free-floating or submerged plants in controls and warmed (+4 °C) treatments for one year each. Our results show that the effect of experimental warming on GHG fluxes differs between dominance of different functional plant types, mainly by modulating methane ebullition, an often-dominant GHG emission pathway. Specifically, we demonstrate that the response to experimental warming was strongest for free-floating and lowest for submerged plant-dominated systems. Importantly, our results suggest that anticipated shifts in plant type from submerged plants to a dominance of algae or free-floating plants with warming may increase total GHG emissions from shallow waters. This, together with a warming-induced emission response, represents a so far overlooked positive climate feedback. Management strategies aimed at favouring submerged plant dominance may thus substantially mitigate GHG emissions.
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- Ralf C H Aben
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, Nijmegen, GL 6500, the Netherlands; Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, Wageningen, PB 6708, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, Nijmegen, GL 6500, the Netherlands; Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, Wageningen, PB 6708, the Netherlands; Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, Berlin 12587, Germany
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- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, Berlin 12587, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, Wageningen, PB 6708, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, PB 6708, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, Wageningen, PB 6708, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, Berlin 12587, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, Wageningen, PB 6708, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, Nijmegen, GL 6500, the Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, Nijmegen, GL 6500, the Netherlands; Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, Wageningen, PB 6708, the Netherlands.
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Paranaíba JR, Aben R, Barros N, Quadra G, Linkhorst A, Amado AM, Brothers S, Catalán N, Condon J, Finlayson CM, Grossart HP, Howitt J, Oliveira Junior ES, Keller PS, Koschorreck M, Laas A, Leigh C, Marcé R, Mendonça R, Muniz CC, Obrador B, Onandia G, Raymundo D, Reverey F, Roland F, Rõõm EI, Sobek S, von Schiller D, Wang H, Kosten S. Cross-continental importance of CH 4 emissions from dry inland-waters. Sci Total Environ 2022; 814:151925. [PMID: 34838923 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151925] [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: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Despite substantial advances in quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from dry inland waters, existing estimates mainly consist of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, methane (CH4) may also be relevant due to its higher Global Warming Potential (GWP). We report CH4 emissions from dry inland water sediments to i) provide a cross-continental estimate of such emissions for different types of aquatic systems (i.e., lakes, ponds, reservoirs, and streams) and climate zones (i.e., tropical, continental, and temperate); and ii) determine the environmental factors that control these emissions. CH4 emissions from dry inland waters were consistently higher than emissions observed in adjacent uphill soils, across climate zones and in all aquatic systems except for streams. However, the CH4 contribution (normalized to CO2 equivalents; CO2-eq) to the total GHG emissions of dry inland waters was similar for all types of aquatic systems and varied from 10 to 21%. Although we discuss multiple controlling factors, dry inland water CH4 emissions were most strongly related to sediment organic matter content and moisture. Summing CO2 and CH4 emissions revealed a cross-continental average emission of 9.6 ± 17.4 g CO2-eq m-2 d-1 from dry inland waters. We argue that increasing droughts likely expand the worldwide surface area of atmosphere-exposed aquatic sediments, thereby increasing global dry inland water CH4 emissions. Hence, CH4 cannot be ignored if we want to fully understand the carbon (C) cycle of dry sediments.
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- José R Paranaíba
- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Environmental Radioactivity and Monitoring, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
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- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement (LSCE), CNRS-UMR 8212, France
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- Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, School of Agricultural & Wine Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
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- Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
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- Department Experimental Limnology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Neuglobsow, Germany; Institute of Biogeochemistry and Biology, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
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- Center of Ethnoecology, Limnology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of Ichthyology of the Pantanal North, University of the State of Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Brazil
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- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- Biosciences and Food Technology Discipline, School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain; Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Center of Ethnoecology, Limnology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of Ichthyology of the Pantanal North, University of the State of Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Brazil
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Water Research Institute (IdRA), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Platform Data Analysis and Simulation, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil
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- Research Platform Data Analysis and Simulation, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; Environmental Investment Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Water Research Institute (IdRA), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Kosten S, Almeida RM, Barbosa I, Mendonça R, Santos Muzitano I, Sobreira Oliveira-Junior E, Vroom RJE, Wang HJ, Barros N. Better assessments of greenhouse gas emissions from global fish ponds needed to adequately evaluate aquaculture footprint. Sci Total Environ 2020; 748:141247. [PMID: 32798864 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
While providing protein for a fast-growing human population, the ongoing boom in global aquaculture comes with environmental costs. Particularly, the intense greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reported for several aquaculture systems are a source of concern. Still, we argue that actual emissions could be multiple times higher than currently thought. Most studies supporting existing estimates solely rely on measurements of water-atmosphere diffusive fluxes of GHG, whereas methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions during drainage and refilling and CH4 bubbles emerging from sediments are largely ignored. Yet, abundant evidence for similar aquatic ecosystems suggests that these largely unaccounted emission pathways may be responsible for a large share of annual GHG emissions. Uncertainties from overlooking important emission pathways may have serious consequences, including incorrect advice on mitigation strategies and overly optimistic assessments of the GHG footprint of cultured freshwater fish. To ensure a low-carbon future for global aquaculture, we contend that GHG assessments in fish-farming ponds must extend beyond the focus on diffusive water-atmosphere fluxes and include all emission pathways and possible carbon burial in the sediment. In parallel, we call for a better understanding of the biological, microbiological and physical drivers of aquaculture emissions to effectively support mitigation strategies to minimize the footprint of this nutritionally valuable protein source.
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- Sarian Kosten
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- Department of Biology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora 36036-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora 36036-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora 36036-900, Brazil; Fundação Instituto de Pesca do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Laboratory of Ichthyology of the North Pantanal, University of the State of Mato Grosso, 78200-000 Cáceres, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China; State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Department of Biology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora 36036-900, Brazil
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van den Berg M, van den Elzen E, Ingwersen J, Kosten S, Lamers LPM, Streck T. Contribution of plant-induced pressurized flow to CH 4 emission from a Phragmites fen. Sci Rep 2020; 10:12304. [PMID: 32704156 PMCID: PMC7378545 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69034-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The widespread wetland species Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. has the ability to transport gases through its stems via a pressurized flow. This results in a high oxygen (O2) transport to the rhizosphere, suppressing methane (CH4) production and stimulating CH4 oxidation. Simultaneously CH4 is transported in the opposite direction to the atmosphere, bypassing the oxic surface layer. This raises the question how this plant-mediated gas transport in Phragmites affects the net CH4 emission. A field experiment was set-up in a Phragmites-dominated fen in Germany, to determine the contribution of all three gas transport pathways (plant-mediated, diffusive and ebullition) during the growth stage of Phragmites from intact vegetation (control), from clipped stems (CR) to exclude the pressurized flow, and from clipped and sealed stems (CSR) to exclude any plant-transport. Clipping resulted in a 60% reduced diffusive + plant-mediated flux (control: 517, CR: 217, CSR: 279 mg CH4 m-2 day-1). Simultaneously, ebullition strongly increased by a factor of 7-13 (control: 10, CR: 71, CSR: 126 mg CH4 m-2 day-1). This increase of ebullition did, however, not compensate for the exclusion of pressurized flow. Total CH4 emission from the control was 2.3 and 1.3 times higher than from CR and CSR respectively, demonstrating the significant role of pressurized gas transport in Phragmites-stands.
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- Merit van den Berg
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Biogeophysics, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Straße 27, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Biogeophysics, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Straße 27, 70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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García-Girón J, Heino J, Baastrup-Spohr L, Bove CP, Clayton J, de Winton M, Feldmann T, Fernández-Aláez M, Ecke F, Grillas P, Hoyer MV, Kolada A, Kosten S, Lukács BA, Mjelde M, Mormul RP, Rhazi L, Rhazi M, Sass L, Xu J, Alahuhta J. Global patterns and determinants of lake macrophyte taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity. Sci Total Environ 2020; 723:138021. [PMID: 32213415 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 10/22/2019] [Revised: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Documenting the patterns of biological diversity on Earth has always been a central challenge in macroecology and biogeography. However, for the diverse group of freshwater plants, such research program is still in its infancy. Here, we examined global variation in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity patterns of lake macrophytes using regional data from six continents. A data set of ca. 480 lake macrophyte community observations, together with climatic, geographical and environmental variables, was compiled across 16 regions worldwide. We (a) built the very first phylogeny comprising most freshwater plant lineages; (b) exploited a wide array of functional traits that are important to macrophyte autoecology or that relate to lake ecosystem functioning; (c) assessed if different large-scale beta diversity patterns show a clear latitudinal gradient from the equator to the poles using null models; and (d) employed evolutionary and regression models to first identify the degree to which the studied functional traits show a phylogenetic signal, and then to estimate community-environment relationships at multiple spatial scales. Our results supported the notion that ecological niches evolved independently of phylogeny in macrophyte lineages worldwide. We also showed that taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity followed the typical global trend with higher diversity in the tropics. In addition, we were able to confirm that species, multi-trait and lineage compositions were first and foremost structured by climatic conditions at relatively broad spatial scales. Perhaps more importantly, we showed that large-scale processes along latitudinal and elevational gradients have left a strong footprint in the current diversity patterns and community-environment relationships in lake macrophytes. Overall, our results stress the need for an integrative approach to macroecology, biogeography and conservation biology, combining multiple diversity facets at different spatial scales.
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- Jorge García-Girón
- Ecology Unit, University of León, Campus de Vegazana S/N, 24071 León, Spain.
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- Finnish Environment Institute, Freshwater Centre, P.O. Box 413, 90014 Oulu, Finland.
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- Freshwater Biological Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 4, 2100 København Ø, Denmark.
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- Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20940-040, Brazil
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited, P.O. Box 11115, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited, P.O. Box 11115, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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- Centre for Limnology, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 61117 Rannu, Tartumaa, Estonia.
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 7050, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), 901 83 Umeå, Sweden.
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- Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Le Sambuc, 13200 Arles, France.
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- Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Services, University of Florida, 7922 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, FL 32609, USA.
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- Department of Freshwater Protection, Institute of Environmental Protection-National Research Institute, Krucza 5/11D, 00-548 Warsaw, Poland.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Tisza River Research, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, DRI, Bem tér 18/C, Debrecen 4026, Hungary.
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Biology, Research Group in Limnology, Ichthyology and Aquaculture-Nupélia, State University of Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Bloco H90, CEP-87020-900 Mringá, PR, Brazil
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- Research Center of Plant and Microbial Biotechnologies, Biodiversity and Environment, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, 4 avenue Ibn Battouta, B.P. 1014 RP, Rabat, Morocco
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biology, Moulay Ismail University, PB 509, Boutalamine, Errachidia, Morocco
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- Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430070, China.
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- Finnish Environment Institute, Freshwater Centre, P.O. Box 413, 90014 Oulu, Finland; Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014 Oulu, Finland.
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Keller PS, Catalán N, von Schiller D, Grossart HP, Koschorreck M, Obrador B, Frassl MA, Karakaya N, Barros N, Howitt JA, Mendoza-Lera C, Pastor A, Flaim G, Aben R, Riis T, Arce MI, Onandia G, Paranaíba JR, Linkhorst A, Del Campo R, Amado AM, Cauvy-Fraunié S, Brothers S, Condon J, Mendonça RF, Reverey F, Rõõm EI, Datry T, Roland F, Laas A, Obertegger U, Park JH, Wang H, Kosten S, Gómez R, Feijoó C, Elosegi A, Sánchez-Montoya MM, Finlayson CM, Melita M, Oliveira Junior ES, Muniz CC, Gómez-Gener L, Leigh C, Zhang Q, Marcé R. Global CO 2 emissions from dry inland waters share common drivers across ecosystems. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2126. [PMID: 32358532 PMCID: PMC7195363 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15929-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
Many inland waters exhibit complete or partial desiccation, or have vanished due to global change, exposing sediments to the atmosphere. Yet, data on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from these sediments are too scarce to upscale emissions for global estimates or to understand their fundamental drivers. Here, we present the results of a global survey covering 196 dry inland waters across diverse ecosystem types and climate zones. We show that their CO2 emissions share fundamental drivers and constitute a substantial fraction of the carbon cycled by inland waters. CO2 emissions were consistent across ecosystem types and climate zones, with local characteristics explaining much of the variability. Accounting for such emissions increases global estimates of carbon emissions from inland waters by 6% (~0.12 Pg C y-1). Our results indicate that emissions from dry inland waters represent a significant and likely increasing component of the inland waters carbon cycle.
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- P S Keller
- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
- Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department Experimental Limnology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Neuglobsow, Germany
- Institute of Biology and Biochemistry, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany
- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
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- INRAE, UR RiverLy, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
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- INRAE, UR RiverLy, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Watershed Sciences and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University and New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- INRAE, UR RiverLy, Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
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- Biology Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Programa Biogeoquímica de Ecosistemas Dulceacuícolas (BED), Instituto de Ecología y Desarrollo Sustentable (INEDES, CONICET-UNLu), Luján, Argentina
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- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
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- Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
- IHE Delft, Institite for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands
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- Water Research Institute-National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Montelibretti (Rome), Italy
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Center of Etnoecology, Limnology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of Ichthyology of the Pantanal North, University of the State of Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Brazil
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- Center of Etnoecology, Limnology and Biodiversity, Laboratory of Ichthyology of the Pantanal North, University of the State of Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
- Institute for Future Environments and School of Mathematical Sciences, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Biosciences and Food Technology Discipline, School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology (NIGLAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
- Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
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Paranaíba JR, Quadra G, Josué IIP, Almeida RM, Mendonça R, Cardoso SJ, Silva J, Kosten S, Campos JM, Almeida J, Araújo RL, Roland F, Barros N. Sediment drying-rewetting cycles enhance greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient and trace element release, and promote water cytogenotoxicity. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0231082. [PMID: 32240261 PMCID: PMC7117769 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Increased periods of prolonged droughts followed by severe precipitation events are expected throughout South America due to climate change. Freshwater sediments are especially sensitive to these changing climate conditions. The increased oscillation of water levels in aquatic ecosystems causes enhanced cycles of sediment drying and rewetting. Here we experimentally evaluate the effects of induced drought followed by a rewetting event on the release of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus), and trace elements (iron, manganese, and zinc) from the sediment of a tropical reservoir in southeastern Brazil. Furthermore, we used bulb onions (Allium cepa) to assess the potential cytogenotoxicity of the water overlying sediments after rewetting. We found peaks in CO2 and CH4 emissions when sediments first transitioned from wet to dry, with fluxes declining as sediments dried out. CO2 emissions peaked again upon rewetting, whereas CH4 emissions remained unaltered. Our experiment also revealed average increases by up to a factor of ~5000 in the release rates of nutrients and trace elements in water overlying sediments after rewetting. These increased release rates of potentially toxic compounds likely explain the lower replication of Allium cepa cells (up to 22% reduction) exposed to water overlying sediments after rewetting. Our findings suggest that increased events of drought followed by rewetting may lead to a range of changes in freshwater ecosystems, including nutrient enrichment, increased toxicity following resuspension of contaminants, and higher emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
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- José R. Paranaíba
- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Limnologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Grupo Baccan de Química Analítica, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
- Departamento de Engenharia Metalúrgica e de Minas, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) Acqua, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Laboratório de Genética e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Grupo Baccan de Química Analítica, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Genética e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Aquática, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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Koschorreck M, Downing AS, Hejzlar J, Marcé R, Laas A, Arndt WG, Keller PS, Smolders AJP, van Dijk G, Kosten S. Hidden treasures: Human-made aquatic ecosystems harbour unexplored opportunities. Ambio 2020; 49:531-540. [PMID: 31140158 PMCID: PMC6965596 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-019-01199-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 08/30/2018] [Revised: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Artificial water bodies like ditches, fish ponds, weirs, reservoirs, fish ladders, and irrigation channels are usually constructed and managed to optimize their intended purposes. However, human-made aquatic systems also have unintended consequences on ecosystem services and biogeochemical cycles. Knowledge about their functioning and possible additional ecosystem services is poor, especially compared to natural ecosystems. A GIS analysis indicates that currently only ~ 10% of European surface waters are covered by the European Water Framework directive, and that a considerable fraction of the excluded systems are likely human-made aquatic systems. There is a clear mismatch between the high possible significance of human-made water bodies and their low representation in scientific research and policy. We propose a research agenda to build an inventory of human-made aquatic ecosystems, support and advance research to further our understanding of the role of these systems in local and global biogeochemical cycles as well as to identify other benefits for society. We stress the need for studies that aim to optimize management of human-made aquatic systems considering all their functions and to support programs designed to overcome barriers of the adoption of optimized management strategies.
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- Matthias Koschorreck
- Department Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Brückstrasse 3a, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7, 37003 Ceske Budejovice, Czechia
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Emili Grahit 101, 17003 Girona, Spain
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- Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5D, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
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- Eule GDI, Steinbrede 4, 48163 Münster, Germany
- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Heisenbergstraße 2, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Department Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Brückstrasse 3a, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany
- Eule GDI, Steinbrede 4, 48163 Münster, Germany
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- B-WARE Research Centre, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- B-WARE Research Centre, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Ávila MP, Oliveira-Junior ES, Reis MP, Hester ER, Diamantino C, Veraart AJ, Lamers LPM, Kosten S, Nascimento AMA. The Water Hyacinth Microbiome: Link Between Carbon Turnover and Nutrient Cycling. Microb Ecol 2019; 78:575-588. [PMID: 30706113 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01331-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Water hyacinth (WH), a large floating plant, plays an important role in the biogeochemistry and ecology of many freshwaters globally. Its biogeochemical impact on wetland functioning is strongly mediated by the microbiome associated with its roots. However, little is known about the structure and function of this WH rhizobiome and its relation to wetland ecosystem functioning. Here, we unveil the core and transient rhizobiomes of WH and their key biogeochemical functions in two of the world's largest wetlands: the Amazon and the Pantanal. WH hosts a highly diverse microbial community shaped by spatiotemporal changes. Proteobacteria lineages were most common, followed by Actinobacteria and Planctomycetes. Deltaproteobacteria and Sphingobacteriia predominated in the core microbiome, potentially associated with polysaccharide degradation and fermentation of plant-derived carbon. Conversely, a plethora of lineages were transient, including highly abundant Acinetobacter, Acidobacteria subgroup 6, and methanotrophs, thus assuring diverse taxonomic signatures in the two different wetlands. Our findings point out that methanogenesis is a key driver of, and proxy for, community structure, especially during seasonal plant decline. We provide ecologically relevant insights into the WH microbiome, which is a key element linking plant-associated carbon turnover with other biogeochemical fluxes in tropical wetlands.
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- Marcelo P Ávila
- Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil.
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Junger PC, Dantas FDCC, Nobre RLG, Kosten S, Venticinque EM, Araújo FDC, Sarmento H, Angelini R, Terra I, Gaudêncio A, They NH, Becker V, Cabral CR, Quesado L, Carneiro LS, Caliman A, Amado AM. Effects of seasonality, trophic state and landscape properties on CO 2 saturation in low-latitude lakes and reservoirs. Sci Total Environ 2019; 664:283-295. [PMID: 30743122 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2018] [Revised: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The role of tropical lakes and reservoirs in the global carbon cycle has received increasing attention in the past decade, but our understanding of its variability is still limited. The metabolism of tropical systems may differ profoundly from temperate systems due to the higher temperatures and wider variations in precipitation. Here, we investigated the spatial and temporal patterns of the variability in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) and its drivers in a set of 102 low-latitude lakes and reservoirs that encompass wide gradients of precipitation, productivity and landscape properties (lake area, perimeter-to-area ratio, catchment size, catchment area-to-lake area ratio, and types of catchment land use). We used multiple regressions and structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine the direct and indirect effects of the main in-lake variables and landscape properties on the water pCO2 variance. We found that these systems were mostly supersaturated with CO2 (92% spatially and 72% seasonally) regardless of their trophic status and landscape properties. The pCO2 values (9-40,020 μatm) were within the range found in tropical ecosystems, and higher (p < 0.005) than pCO2 values recorded from high-latitude ecosystems. Water volume had a negative effect on the trophic state (r = -0.63), which mediated a positive indirect effect on pCO2 (r = 0.4), representing an important negative feedback in the context of climate change-driven reduction in precipitation. Our results demonstrated that precipitation drives the pCO2 seasonal variability, with significantly higher pCO2 during the rainy season (F = 16.67; p < 0.001), due to two potential main mechanisms: (1) phytoplankton dilution and (2) increasing inputs of terrestrial CO2 from the catchment. We conclude that at low latitudes, precipitation is a major climatic driver of pCO2 variability by influencing volume variations and linking lentic ecosystems to their catchments.
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- Pedro Ciarlini Junger
- Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59014-002, Brazil; Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP 13565-905, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AF Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP 13565-905, Brazil
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- Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59078-970, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil
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- Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59014-002, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59078-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59014-002, Brazil; Centro de Estudos Costeiros, Limnológicos e Marinhos (CECLIMAR), Departamento Interdisciplinar, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, RS 96625-000, Brazil
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- Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59078-970, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59078-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59078-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59014-002, Brazil; Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG 36036-900, Brazil.
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Tiegs SD, Costello DM, Isken MW, Woodward G, McIntyre PB, Gessner MO, Chauvet E, Griffiths NA, Flecker AS, Acuña V, Albariño R, Allen DC, Alonso C, Andino P, Arango C, Aroviita J, Barbosa MVM, Barmuta LA, Baxter CV, Bell TDC, Bellinger B, Boyero L, Brown LE, Bruder A, Bruesewitz DA, Burdon FJ, Callisto M, Canhoto C, Capps KA, Castillo MM, Clapcott J, Colas F, Colón-Gaud C, Cornut J, Crespo-Pérez V, Cross WF, Culp JM, Danger M, Dangles O, de Eyto E, Derry AM, Villanueva VD, Douglas MM, Elosegi A, Encalada AC, Entrekin S, Espinosa R, Ethaiya D, Ferreira V, Ferriol C, Flanagan KM, Fleituch T, Follstad Shah JJ, Frainer Barbosa A, Friberg N, Frost PC, Garcia EA, García Lago L, García Soto PE, Ghate S, Giling DP, Gilmer A, Gonçalves JF, Gonzales RK, Graça MAS, Grace M, Grossart HP, Guérold F, Gulis V, Hepp LU, Higgins S, Hishi T, Huddart J, Hudson J, Imberger S, Iñiguez-Armijos C, Iwata T, Janetski DJ, Jennings E, Kirkwood AE, Koning AA, Kosten S, Kuehn KA, Laudon H, Leavitt PR, Lemes da Silva AL, Leroux SJ, LeRoy CJ, Lisi PJ, MacKenzie R, Marcarelli AM, Masese FO, McKie BG, Oliveira Medeiros A, Meissner K, Miliša M, Mishra S, Miyake Y, Moerke A, Mombrikotb S, Mooney R, Moulton T, Muotka T, Negishi JN, Neres-Lima V, Nieminen ML, Nimptsch J, Ondruch J, Paavola R, Pardo I, Patrick CJ, Peeters ETHM, Pozo J, Pringle C, Prussian A, Quenta E, Quesada A, Reid B, Richardson JS, Rigosi A, Rincón J, Rîşnoveanu G, Robinson CT, Rodríguez-Gallego L, Royer TV, Rusak JA, Santamans AC, Selmeczy GB, Simiyu G, Skuja A, Smykla J, Sridhar KR, Sponseller R, Stoler A, Swan CM, Szlag D, Teixeira-de Mello F, Tonkin JD, Uusheimo S, Veach AM, Vilbaste S, Vought LBM, Wang CP, Webster JR, Wilson PB, Woelfl S, Xenopoulos MA, Yates AG, Yoshimura C, Yule CM, Zhang YX, Zwart JA. Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones. Sci Adv 2019; 5:eaav0486. [PMID: 30662951 PMCID: PMC6326750 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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River ecosystems receive and process vast quantities of terrestrial organic carbon, the fate of which depends strongly on microbial activity. Variation in and controls of processing rates, however, are poorly characterized at the global scale. In response, we used a peer-sourced research network and a highly standardized carbon processing assay to conduct a global-scale field experiment in greater than 1000 river and riparian sites. We found that Earth's biomes have distinct carbon processing signatures. Slow processing is evident across latitudes, whereas rapid rates are restricted to lower latitudes. Both the mean rate and variability decline with latitude, suggesting temperature constraints toward the poles and greater roles for other environmental drivers (e.g., nutrient loading) toward the equator. These results and data set the stage for unprecedented "next-generation biomonitoring" by establishing baselines to help quantify environmental impacts to the functioning of ecosystems at a global scale.
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Alahuhta J, Lindholm M, Bove CP, Chappuis E, Clayton J, de Winton M, Feldmann T, Ecke F, Gacia E, Grillas P, Hoyer MV, Johnson LB, Kolada A, Kosten S, Lauridsen T, Lukács BA, Mjelde M, Mormul RP, Rhazi L, Rhazi M, Sass L, Søndergaard M, Xu J, Heino J. Global patterns in the metacommunity structuring of lake macrophytes: regional variations and driving factors. Oecologia 2018; 188:1167-1182. [PMID: 30374676 PMCID: PMC6244864 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4294-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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We studied community-environment relationships of lake macrophytes at two metacommunity scales using data from 16 regions across the world. More specifically, we examined (a) whether the lake macrophyte communities respond similar to key local environmental factors, major climate variables and lake spatial locations in each of the regions (i.e., within-region approach) and (b) how well can explained variability in the community-environment relationships across multiple lake macrophyte metacommunities be accounted for by elevation range, spatial extent, latitude, longitude, and age of the oldest lake within each metacommunity (i.e., across-region approach). In the within-region approach, we employed partial redundancy analyses together with variation partitioning to investigate the relative importance of local variables, climate variables, and spatial location on lake macrophytes among the study regions. In the across-region approach, we used adjusted R2 values of the variation partitioning to model the community-environment relationships across multiple metacommunities using linear regression and commonality analysis. We found that niche filtering related to local lake-level environmental conditions was the dominant force structuring macrophytes within metacommunities. However, our results also revealed that elevation range associated with climate (increasing temperature amplitude affecting macrophytes) and spatial location (likely due to dispersal limitation) was important for macrophytes based on the findings of the across-metacommunities analysis. These findings suggest that different determinants influence macrophyte metacommunities within different regions, thus showing context dependency. Moreover, our study emphasized that the use of a single metacommunity scale gives incomplete information on the environmental features explaining variation in macrophyte communities.
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- Janne Alahuhta
- Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
- Finnish Environment Institute, Freshwater Centre, P.O. Box 413, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, 20940‒040, Brazil
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- Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), C/accés a la Cala St. Francesc 14, 17300, Blanes, Spain
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited, P.O. Box 11115, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited, P.O. Box 11115, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Centre for Limnology, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 61117, Rannu, Tartumaa, Estonia
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 7050, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), 901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), C/accés a la Cala St. Francesc 14, 17300, Blanes, Spain
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- Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands, Le Sambuc, 13200, Arles, France
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- Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Services, University of Florida, 7922 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, FL, 32609, USA
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- Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota Duluth, 5013 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN, 55811, USA
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- Department of Freshwater Protection, Institute of Environmental Protection‒National Research Institute, Krucza 5/11D, 00-548, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejsøvej 25, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark
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- Department of Tisza River Research, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Bem tér 18/C, Debrecen, 4026, Hungary
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Gaustadalléen 21, 0349, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Research Group in Limnology, Ichthyology and Aquaculture-Nupélia, State University of Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Bloco H90, CEP-87020-900, Mringá, PR, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Botany, Mycology and Environment, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, 4 avenue Ibn Battouta, B.P. 1014 RP, Rabat, Morocco
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biology, Moulay Ismail University, PB 509, Boutalamine, Errachidia, Morocco
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- Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejsøvej 25, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Finnish Environment Institute, Biodiversity Centre, P.O. Box 413, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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Velthuis M, Kosten S, Aben R, Kazanjian G, Hilt S, Peeters ETHM, van Donk E, Bakker ES. Warming enhances sedimentation and decomposition of organic carbon in shallow macrophyte-dominated systems with zero net effect on carbon burial. Glob Chang Biol 2018; 24:5231-5242. [PMID: 30120802 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 05/10/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Temperatures have been rising throughout recent decades and are predicted to rise further in the coming century. Global warming affects carbon cycling in freshwater ecosystems, which both emit and bury substantial amounts of carbon on a global scale. Currently, most studies focus on the effect of warming on overall carbon emissions from freshwater ecosystems, while net effects on carbon budgets may strongly depend on burial in sediments. Here, we tested whether year-round warming increases the production, sedimentation, or decomposition of particulate organic carbon and eventually alters the carbon burial in a typical shallow freshwater system. We performed an indoor experiment in eight mesocosms dominated by the common submerged aquatic plant Myriophyllum spicatum testing two temperature treatments: a temperate seasonal temperature control and a warmed (+4°C) treatment (n = 4). During a full experimental year, the carbon stock in plant biomass, dissolved organic carbon in the water column, sedimented organic matter, and decomposition of plant detritus were measured. Our results showed that year-round warming nearly doubled the final carbon stock in plant biomass from 6.9 ± 1.1 g C in the control treatment to 12.8 ± 0.6 g C (mean ± SE), mainly due to a prolonged growing season in autumn. DOC concentrations did not differ between the treatments, but organic carbon sedimentation increased by 60% from 96 ± 9.6 to 152 ± 16 g C m-2 yaer-1 (mean ± SE) from control to warm treatments. Enhanced decomposition of plant detritus in the warm treatment, however, compensated for the increased sedimentation. As a result, net carbon burial was 40 ± 5.7 g C m-2 year-1 in both temperature treatments when fluxes were combined into a carbon budget model. These results indicate that warming can increase the turnover of organic carbon in shallow macrophyte-dominated systems, while not necessarily affecting net carbon burial on a system scale.
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- Mandy Velthuis
- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Ecology & Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Aben RCH, Barros N, van Donk E, Frenken T, Hilt S, Kazanjian G, Lamers LPM, Peeters ETHM, Roelofs JGM, de Senerpont Domis LN, Stephan S, Velthuis M, Van de Waal DB, Wik M, Thornton BF, Wilkinson J, DelSontro T, Kosten S. Cross continental increase in methane ebullition under climate change. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1682. [PMID: 29167452 PMCID: PMC5700168 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01535-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Methane (CH4) strongly contributes to observed global warming. As natural CH4 emissions mainly originate from wet ecosystems, it is important to unravel how climate change may affect these emissions. This is especially true for ebullition (bubble flux from sediments), a pathway that has long been underestimated but generally dominates emissions. Here we show a remarkably strong relationship between CH4 ebullition and temperature across a wide range of freshwater ecosystems on different continents using multi-seasonal CH4 ebullition data from the literature. As these temperature-ebullition relationships may have been affected by seasonal variation in organic matter availability, we also conducted a controlled year-round mesocosm experiment. Here 4 °C warming led to 51% higher total annual CH4 ebullition, while diffusion was not affected. Our combined findings suggest that global warming will strongly enhance freshwater CH4 emissions through a disproportional increase in ebullition (6-20% per 1 °C increase), contributing to global warming.
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- Ralf C H Aben
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, 36036-900, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.056, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, 12587, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Ecosystem Research, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, 12587, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- B-WARE Research Centre, P.O. Box 6558, 6503 GB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- B-WARE Research Centre, P.O. Box 6558, 6503 GB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Limnology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, OT Neuglobsow, 16775, Stechlin, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden
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- Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden
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- University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Fortstr. 7, 76829, Landau, Germany
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- Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Limnologie (GRIL), Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada, H3C 3P8, QC
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Hilt S, Brothers S, Jeppesen E, Veraart AJ, Kosten S. Translating Regime Shifts in Shallow Lakes into Changes in Ecosystem Functions and Services. Bioscience 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bix106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Velthuis M, de Senerpont Domis LN, Frenken T, Stephan S, Kazanjian G, Aben R, Hilt S, Kosten S, van Donk E, Van de Waal DB. Warming advances top-down control and reduces producer biomass in a freshwater plankton community. Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Mandy Velthuis
- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management; Wageningen University; P.O. Box 47 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
- Department of Experimental Limnology; Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries; Alte Fischerhütte 2 16775 Stechlin Germany
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- Department of Ecosystem Research; Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries; Müggelseedamm 301 12587 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology; Institute for Water and Wetland Research; Radboud University Nijmegen; P.O. Box 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem Research; Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries; Müggelseedamm 301 12587 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology; Institute for Water and Wetland Research; Radboud University Nijmegen; P.O. Box 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
- Department of Ecology and Biodiversity; University of Utrecht; P.O. Box 80.056 3508 TB Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Droevendaalsesteeg 10 6708 PB Wageningen The Netherlands
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Kosten S, Piñeiro M, de Goede E, de Klein J, Lamers LPM, Ettwig K. Fate of methane in aquatic systems dominated by free-floating plants. Water Res 2016; 104:200-207. [PMID: 27525583 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2016.07.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 04/10/2016] [Revised: 07/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/21/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Worldwide the area of free-floating plants is increasing, which can be expected to alter methane (CH4) emissions from aquatic systems in several ways. A large proportion of the CH4 produced may become oxidized below the plants due to the accumulation of CH4 as a result of a decrease in the diffusive water-atmosphere flux and the entrapment of part of the ebullitive CH4, in combination with suitable conditions for methane oxidizing (MOX) bacteria in the aerobic rhizosphere. We used a set of essays to test this hypothesis and to explore the effect of different densities for three widespread free-floating species: Azolla filiculoides, Salvinia natans, and Eichhornia crassipes. The gas exchange velocity, proportion of CH4 bubbles trapped by the plants, occurrence of radial oxygen loss from roots, and MOX rates on the roots were assessed. We subsequently used the outcome of these experiments to parameterize a simple model. With this model we estimated the proportion of the produced CH4 that is oxidized, for different plant species and different densities. We found that in a shallow (1 m) system up to 70% of the CH4 produced may become oxidized as a result of a strong decrease in gas exchange combined with high MOX activity of the rhizosphere microbiome. As floating plants also are likely to increase CH4 production by organic matter production, especially when their presence induces anaerobic conditions, the overall effect on CH4 emission will strongly depend on local conditions. This explains the contrasting effects of floating plants on CH4 emissions in literature as reviewed here. As the effect of floating plants on CH4 emissions, including the high MOX rates we show here, can be substantial, there is an urgent need to consider this impact when assessing greenhouse gas budgets.
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- Sarian Kosten
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, P.O. Box 47, 6700AA, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Almeida RM, Nóbrega GN, Junger PC, Figueiredo AV, Andrade AS, de Moura CGB, Tonetta D, Oliveira ES, Araújo F, Rust F, Piñeiro-Guerra JM, Mendonça JR, Medeiros LR, Pinheiro L, Miranda M, Costa MRA, Melo ML, Nobre RLG, Benevides T, Roland F, de Klein J, Barros NO, Mendonça R, Becker V, Huszar VLM, Kosten S. High Primary Production Contrasts with Intense Carbon Emission in a Eutrophic Tropical Reservoir. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:717. [PMID: 27242737 PMCID: PMC4870258 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [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: 08/07/2015] [Accepted: 04/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Recent studies from temperate lakes indicate that eutrophic systems tend to emit less carbon dioxide (CO2) and bury more organic carbon (OC) than oligotrophic ones, rendering them CO2 sinks in some cases. However, the scarcity of data from tropical systems is critical for a complete understanding of the interplay between eutrophication and aquatic carbon (C) fluxes in warm waters. We test the hypothesis that a warm eutrophic system is a source of both CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere, and that atmospheric emissions are larger than the burial of OC in sediments. This hypothesis was based on the following assumptions: (i) OC mineralization rates are high in warm water systems, so that water column CO2 production overrides the high C uptake by primary producers, and (ii) increasing trophic status creates favorable conditions for CH4 production. We measured water-air and sediment-water CO2 fluxes, CH4 diffusion, ebullition and oxidation, net ecosystem production (NEP) and sediment OC burial during the dry season in a eutrophic reservoir in the semiarid northeastern Brazil. The reservoir was stratified during daytime and mixed during nighttime. In spite of the high rates of primary production (4858 ± 934 mg C m-2 d-1), net heterotrophy was prevalent due to high ecosystem respiration (5209 ± 992 mg C m-2 d-1). Consequently, the reservoir was a source of atmospheric CO2 (518 ± 182 mg C m-2 d-1). In addition, the reservoir was a source of ebullitive (17 ± 10 mg C m-2 d-1) and diffusive CH4 (11 ± 6 mg C m-2 d-1). OC sedimentation was high (1162 mg C m-2 d-1), but our results suggest that the majority of it is mineralized to CO2 (722 ± 182 mg C m-2 d-1) rather than buried as OC (440 mg C m-2 d-1). Although temporally resolved data would render our findings more conclusive, our results suggest that despite being a primary production and OC burial hotspot, the tropical eutrophic system studied here was a stronger CO2 and CH4 source than a C sink, mainly because of high rates of OC mineralization in the water column and sediments.
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- Rafael M Almeida
- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Federal University of Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciência do Solo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, University of São Paulo Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Limnology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Limnology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Federal University of Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecología Teórica y Aplicada, Centro Universitario Regional Este and Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Laboratory of Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Limnology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Federal University of Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Microbial Processes and Biodiversity, Federal University of São Carlos São Carlos, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Limnology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Limnology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Federal University of Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Federal University of Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Federal University of Juiz de ForaJuiz de Fora, Brazil; Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala UniversityUppsala, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ficologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Frenken T, Velthuis M, de Senerpont Domis LN, Stephan S, Aben R, Kosten S, van Donk E, Van de Waal DB. Warming accelerates termination of a phytoplankton spring bloom by fungal parasites. Glob Chang Biol 2016; 22:299-309. [PMID: 26488235 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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: 06/02/2015] [Revised: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Climate change is expected to favour infectious diseases across ecosystems worldwide. In freshwater and marine environments, parasites play a crucial role in controlling plankton population dynamics. Infection of phytoplankton populations will cause a transfer of carbon and nutrients into parasites, which may change the type of food available for higher trophic levels. Some phytoplankton species are inedible to zooplankton, and the termination of their population by parasites may liberate otherwise unavailable carbon and nutrients. Phytoplankton spring blooms often consist of large diatoms inedible for zooplankton, but the zoospores of their fungal parasites may serve as a food source for this higher trophic level. Here, we investigated the impact of warming on the fungal infection of a natural phytoplankton spring bloom and followed the response of a zooplankton community. Experiments were performed in ca. 1000 L indoor mesocosms exposed to a controlled seasonal temperature cycle and a warm (+4 °C) treatment in the period from March to June 2014. The spring bloom was dominated by the diatom Synedra. At the peak of infection over 40% of the Synedra population was infected by a fungal parasite (i.e. a chytrid) in both treatments. Warming did not affect the onset of the Synedra bloom, but accelerated its termination. Peak population density of Synedra tended to be lower in the warm treatments. Furthermore, Synedra carbon: phosphorus stoichiometry increased during the bloom, particularly in the control treatments. This indicates enhanced phosphorus limitation in the control treatments, which may have constrained chytrid development. Timing of the rotifer Keratella advanced in the warm treatments and closely followed chytrid infections. The chytrids' zoospores may thus have served as an alternative food source to Keratella. Our study thus emphasizes the importance of incorporating not only nutrient limitation and grazing, but also parasitism in understanding the response of plankton communities towards global warming.
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- Thijs Frenken
- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Biology, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.056, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), P.O. Box 50, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Scheffer M, Barrett S, Carpenter SR, Folke C, Green AJ, Holmgren M, Hughes TP, Kosten S, van de Leemput IA, Nepstad DC, van Nes EH, Peeters ETHM, Walker B. Climate and conservation. Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems. Science 2015; 347:1317-9. [PMID: 25792318 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa3769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- M Scheffer
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands.
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- School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, SE104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, EBD-CSIC, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
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- Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute of Water and Wetland Research, 6525 AJ Nijmegen,Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Earth Innovation Institute, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Souffreau C, Van der Gucht K, van Gremberghe I, Kosten S, Lacerot G, Lobão LM, de Moraes Huszar VL, Roland F, Jeppesen E, Vyverman W, De Meester L. Environmental rather than spatial factors structure bacterioplankton communities in shallow lakes along a > 6000 km latitudinal gradient in South America. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:2336-51. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Revised: 10/24/2014] [Accepted: 10/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Caroline Souffreau
- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation; University of Leuven; Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology; Institute for Water and Wetland Research; Radboud University Nijmegen; Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group; Wageningen University; Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Functional Ecology of Aquatic Systems; CURE; Universidad de la República; Rocha Uruguay
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora; Juiz de Fora Brazil
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology; Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora; Juiz de Fora Brazil
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- Department of Bioscience and the Arctic Centre; Aarhus University; Silkeborg Denmark
- Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research; Beijing China
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- Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology; Ghent University; Gent Belgium
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation; University of Leuven; Leuven Belgium
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Mendonça R, Kosten S, Sobek S, Cole JJ, Bastos AC, Albuquerque AL, Cardoso SJ, Roland F. Carbon Sequestration in a Large Hydroelectric Reservoir: An Integrative Seismic Approach. Ecosystems 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-013-9735-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Brothers SM, Hilt S, Attermeyer K, Grossart HP, Kosten S, Lischke B, Mehner T, Meyer N, Scharnweber K, Köhler J. A regime shift from macrophyte to phytoplankton dominance enhances carbon burial in a shallow, eutrophic lake. Ecosphere 2013. [DOI: 10.1890/es13-00247.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Peeters ETHM, van Zuidam JP, van Zuidam BG, Van Nes EH, Kosten S, Heuts PGM, Roijackers RMM, Netten JJC, Scheffer M. Changing weather conditions and floating plants in temperate drainage ditches. J Appl Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Edwin T. H. M Peeters
- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group; Wageningen University; PO Box 47; 6700; AA Wageningen; The Netherlands
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- Ecology and Biodiversity Group; Utrecht University; PO Box 80·058; 3508; TB Utrecht; The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group; Wageningen University; PO Box 47; 6700; AA Wageningen; The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group; Wageningen University; PO Box 47; 6700; AA Wageningen; The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group; Wageningen University; PO Box 47; 6700; AA Wageningen; The Netherlands
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- Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden; PO Box 550; 3990; GJ Houten; The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group; Wageningen University; PO Box 47; 6700; AA Wageningen; The Netherlands
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- Nelen & Schuurmans Consultancy; PO Box 1219; 3500; BE Utrecht; The Netherlands
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group; Wageningen University; PO Box 47; 6700; AA Wageningen; The Netherlands
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Kosten S, Huszar VLM, Mazzeo N, Scheffer M, Sternberg LDSL, Jeppesen E. Lake and watershed characteristics rather than climate influence nutrient limitation in shallow lakes. Ecol Appl 2009; 19:1791-1804. [PMID: 19831070 DOI: 10.1890/08-0906.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Both nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) can limit primary production in shallow lakes, but it is still debated how the importance of N and P varies in time and space. We sampled 83 shallow lakes along a latitudinal gradient (5 degrees 55 degrees S) in South America and assessed the potential nutrient limitation using different methods including nutrient ratios in sediment, water, and seston, dissolved nutrient concentrations, and occurrence of N-fixing cyanobacteria. We found that local characteristics such as soil type and associated land use in the catchment, hydrology, and also the presence of abundant submerged macrophyte growth influenced N and P limitation. We found neither a consistent variation in nutrient limitation nor indications for a steady change in denitrification along the latitudinal gradient. Contrary to findings in other regions, we did not find a relationship between the occurrence of (N-fixing and non-N-fixing) cyanobacteria and the TN:TP ratio. We found N-fixing cyanobacteria (those with heterocysts) exclusively in lakes with dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) concentrations of < 100 microg/L, but notably they were also often absent in lakes with low DIN concentrations. We argue that local factors such as land use and hydrology have a stronger influence on which nutrient is limiting than climate. Furthermore, our data show that in a wide range of climates N limitation does not necessarily lead to cyanobacterial dominance.
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- Sarian Kosten
- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Kosten S, Lacerot G, Jeppesen E, da Motta Marques D, van Nes EH, Mazzeo N, Scheffer M. Effects of Submerged Vegetation on Water Clarity Across Climates. Ecosystems 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9277-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [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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Kosten S, Lacerot G. It Takes a Village. Science 2009; 324:1265. [DOI: 10.1126/science.324_1265b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Sarian Kosten
- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Wageningen 6708PG, Netherlands
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, CP 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
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Gilbert S, Affolter VK, Schmidt P, Kosten S, Kramme PM, Gross TL, Ihrke P, Moore PF. FC-14 Clonality studies of feline cutaneous lymphocytosis. Vet Dermatol 2004. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3164.2004.411_14.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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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