Global Change and the Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Impacts on Linkages between Above-Sediment and Sediment Biota

By P. Lake, M. Palmer, P. Biró, J. Cole, Alan P. Covich, C. Dahm, J. Gibert, W. Goedkoop, K. Martens, Jos T. A. Verhoeven. BioScience, 2000

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disturbances varying in strength, frequency, predictability, duration, and spatial scale. Such disturbances can deplete the biota, disrupt ecological processes, and redistribute resources (Giller 1996, Lake 2000). Generally, in both lakes and rivers, recovery from the effects of natural disturbance is relatively rapid, although there are exceptions, such as recovery from catastrophes on the scale of the Mount St. Helens eruption (Niemi et al. 1990, Giller 1996). Human activities are now a major force affecting the ecosystems of the earth (Vitousek et al. 1997, Sala et al. 2000). Human enterprises—agriculture, industry, recreation, and international commerce—are the source of disturbances affecting all ecosystems to varying spatial extents and to varying degrees. The disturbances arise from changes in land use, anthropogenic changes in global biogeochemistry, and biotic additions and losses (Vitousek et al. 1997). These three factors are the principal agents of global environmental change. Furthermore, they interact to give rise to the two large-scale phenomena of climate change and loss of biodiversity (Vitousek et al. 1997). Freshwater sediment biota are particularly vulnerable to global change because of direct impact on the sediments and on the water over these sediments, and because of the transmission of impacts from adjacent terrestrial ecosystems. Fresh waters are intimately connected to the terrestrial realm through groundwaters and surface waters. Movement of organic matter, nutrients, and sediment among the terrestrial realm, the water column, and aquatic sediments

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Habitat coupling in lake ecosystems (2002, background): “Recent papers have reviewed the importance of linkages between above-sediment and below-sediment processes for the maintenance of freshwater biodiversity (Lake et al. 2000, Palmer et al. 2000).”
Putting the Lake Back Together: Reintegrating Benthic Pathways into Lake Food Web Models (2002, background): “Furthermore, many human perturbations are likely to alter linkages between benthic and pelagic habitats, linkages that are currently only poorly understood ( Lake et al. 2000 ).”
Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity (2004, background): “The biodiversity of detritivores and decomposers is affected by both the quantity and type of detritus (Lake et al. 2000; Palmer et al. 2000).”
Taxonomic and biological trait differences of stream macroinvertebrate communities between mediterranean and temperate regions: implications for future climatic scenarios (2007, background): “In this context, few studies so far focus on the structural (Pounds et al., 1999; Sagarin et al., 1999) or the functional community level (Mulholland et al., 1997; Lake et al., 2000; Moline et al., 2004).”
Principles for linking fish habitat to fisheries management and conservation (2005, background): “Coupling among various lake habitats is critical for maintaining processes that control overall ecosystem structures and functions, fluxes of organisms and nutrients between the benthos and water column, and movements of fishes from nearshore to pelagic zones (Lake et al., 2000; Schindler & Scheuere”
Climate change and freshwater biodiversity: detected patterns, future trends and adaptations in northern regions (2009, background): “The declines in freshwater biodiversity have been associated with multiple anthropogenic drivers, with climate-induced changes in water temperature and hydrological regimes typically ranking amongst the most influential in global-scale analyses (Lake et al., 2000; Xenopoulos et al., 2005).”
Linkages between Aquatic Sediment Biota and Life Above Sediments as Potential Drivers of Biodiversity and Ecological Processes (2000, background): “…to water bodies in the United States, an 85% decrease in phytoplankton biomass and dramatic changes in algal and invertebrate December 2000 / Vol. 50 No. 12 • BioScience 1071 species composition were documented for the Hudson River (Caraco et al. 1997, Strayer et al. 1999, Lake et al. 2000).”
Understanding and predicting the combined effects of climate change and land‐use change on freshwater macroinvertebrates and fish (2014, background): “With climate warming, freshwater ecosystems will experience increases in water temperature; evaporation is likely to increase during dry seasons; and flood intensity and frequency are also expected to increase due to more frequent heavy rain events (Lake et al. 2000).”