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Sediment stability is a critical component for the understanding of cohesive sediment dynamics. Traditionally, physico-chemical sediment conditions have been regarded as most important drivers of sediment stability. However, over the last decade, the stabilization of sediment by biological activity, particularly the influence of highly hydrated matrices of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) has been given increasing attention. However, most studies have focused on the sediment/water interface and, usually, of marine systems. The present study exploits current knowledge of EPS dynamics from marine systems and applies it to freshwater habitats, also considering a wide range of biological and physico-chemical variables. Natural sediments were taken from a freshwater site with high levels of heavy metal pollution (Lauffen reservoir, River Neckar, Germany). Vertical profiles from the flocculent surface layer to depth of 50 cm within the sediment were investigated, monthly, over the course of year. Tubificidae and Chironomidae larvae constituted the majority of the macrofauna. Despite the turbidity of the water column, a highly diverse and abundant microphytobenthic community of diatoms (11-82 microg g(-1) DW) was found at the sediment surface closely associated with high numbers of bacteria (10(9) cells g(-1) DW). The concentrations of all EPS moieties were remarkably high (0.1-0.5, 1.7-3.8, 0.9-5.2 mg g(-1) DW, for colloidal and bound carbohydrates and proteins, respectively) and levels were comparable to those determined in intertidal studies. The microalgal and bacterial biomass both showed strong correlations with the colloidal and bound EPS carbohydrate fractions. The data suggested that the present macrofauna as well as the metabolic activities of microalgae and bacteria interact with sedimentological factors to influence the properties of the sediment by binding fine-grained sediment, changing water content and enhancing the organic content through secretion products. The colloidal and bound EPS moieties showed strong correlation with the critical shear stress for erosion over sediment depth. It is suggested that the cohesive strength of the sediment was controlled by a high number of active adsorption sites and higher charge densities in fine grained sediments. The EPS network may significantly enhance this by embedding particles and permeating the void space but also in offering additional ionic binding sites and cross-linkages. 相似文献
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Seasonal phosphorus release from exposed,re-inundated littoral sediments of two Australian reservoirs 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
Water levels in many reservoirs typically fluctuate seasonally, but the effects of re-inundation of exposed sediments on nutrient dynamics in the water column are poorly known. This study concerns the seasonal differences in the potential of sediments from two Australian reservoirs, after having undergone different degrees of in situ desiccation, to release P under aerobic conditions. Differences were determined between biotic and abiotic P release, and results were also examined in relation to sediment chemistry. The two reservoirs, Carcoar Dam and Lake Rowlands, demonstrated different patterns of P release involving an interactive complex of P release mechanisms. Sediment chemistry at the reservoir margins was important because of the higher concentrations of N, P, Fe and Mn in Lake Rowlands. Physical and chemical processes influenced P uptake and release due to desiccation and oxidation of sediments and were of greater importance in Carcoar Dam. Abiotic P release from sterilised sediments was greater than from unsterilised sediments where both biotic and abiotic processes were apparent. Biotic P uptake and release were especially marked in Lake Rowlands where large macrophyte beds provided a rich source of organic matter. Little seasonal difference in P release was detected. The increased P release from dried sediments has ramifications for internal P loading into reservoirs and for the calculation of P budgets. For managers of reservoirs where large expanses of sediment are exposed during drying, it may be better to maintain high water levels, where possible, during the summer by modifying drawdown practices. 相似文献
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Nora Hamad Al‐Shaalan Imran Ali Zeid A. ALOthman Lamya Hamad Al‐Wahaibi Hadeel Alabdulmonem 《Chirality》2019,31(12):1060-1069
Kudzu (Pueraria thunbergiana) plant extract impregnated sediments were used for abiotic and biotic uptakes and biodegradation. The optimized conditions were 25 μg L?1 concentration, 7 days for abiotic uptake and 56 days for biotic uptake and biodegradation, dose 2 g L?1, 7 pH, and 35°C temperature. The amount removed of dufulin was 32.6% in abiotic conditions while these were 90% in the case of biotic uptake and biodegradation. Enantioselective biodegradation indicated that S‐(+)‐enantiomer degraded faster (90%) than R‐(?)‐enantiomer (87%). The data for abiotic and biotic uptakes and biodegradation followed well Langmuir, thermodynamics, and kinetics models. All these processes followed pseudo first‐order kinetics. It was observed that biodegradation was three times responsible for dufulin removal than simple sorption uptake (abiotic and biotic). The abiotic and biotic uptakes and biodegradation were quite fast and endothermic nature. The developed method may be used to remove the racemic and enantiomeric dufulin in water. 相似文献
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Spatio‐temporal variation of biotic factors underpins contemporary range dynamics of congeners
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Species’ ranges are complex often exhibiting multidirectional shifts over space and time. Despite the strong fingerprint of recent historical climate change on species’ distributions, biotic factors such as loss of vegetative habitat and the presence of potential competitors constitute important yet often overlooked drivers of range dynamics. Furthermore, short‐term changes in environmental conditions can influence the underlying processes of local extinction and local colonization that drive range shifts, yet are rarely considered at broad scales. We used dynamic state‐space occupancy models to test multiple hypotheses of the relative importance of major drivers of range shifts of Golden‐winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) and Blue‐winged Warblers (V. cyanoptera) between 1983 and 2012 across North America: warming temperatures; habitat changes; and occurrence of congeneric species, used here as proxy for biotic interactions. Dynamic occupancies for both species were most influenced by spatial relative to temporal variation in temperature and habitat. However, temporal variation in temperature anomalies and biotic interactions remained important. The two biotic factors considered, habitat change and biotic interactions, had the largest relative effect on estimated extinction rates followed by abiotic temperature anomalies. For the Golden‐winged Warbler, the predicted presence of the Blue‐winged Warbler, a hypothesized competitor, most influenced extinction probabilities, contributing to evidence supporting its role in site‐level species replacement. Given the overall importance of biotic factors on range‐wide dynamic occupancies, their consideration alongside abiotic factors should not be overlooked. Our results suggest that warming compounds the negative effect of habitat loss emphasizing species’ need for habitat to adapt to a changing climate. Notably, even closely related species exhibited individual responses to abiotic and biotic factors considered. 相似文献
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WRKY transcription factors in plant responses to stresses 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Jingjing Jiang Shenghui Ma Nenghui Ye Ming Jiang Jiashu Cao Jianhua Zhang 《植物学报(英文版)》2017,59(2):86-101
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Citrus is the most important tree fruit crop in the world. However, citrus production is affected by both biotic and abiotic stresses, including drought, extreme temperature, salinity, citrus canker, citrus tristeza virus, and Huanglongbing (or citrus greening), among others. These stresses can severely influence growth and development of both rootstocks and/or scions of citrus trees, thus reducing both fruit production and fruit quality. Modern advances in the tools of plant biotechnology and advances in genomics play important roles in understanding how citrus crops can cope with diseases and adverse environmental conditions. Within the last decades, much progress has been made in identifying and cloning of genes involved in resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses as well in genetic transformation of Citrus and its related genera, such as Poncirus trifoliata and Fortunella spp. In this review, we will provide information on advances and insights on genetic transformation protocols as well as availability of characterized genes involved in resistance to both abiotic and biotic stresses. This will be followed with a discussion on perspectives of future developments in this field. 相似文献
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Elodie C. Parain Dominique Gravel Rudolf P. Rohr Sarah M. Gray 《Ecology and evolution》2016,6(14):4885-4897
Understanding how trophic levels respond to changes in abiotic and biotic conditions is key for predicting how food webs will react to environmental perturbations. Different trophic levels may respond disproportionately to change, with lower levels more likely to react faster, as they typically consist of smaller‐bodied species with higher reproductive rates. This response could cause a mismatch between trophic levels, in which predators and prey will respond differently to changing abiotic or biotic conditions. This mismatch between trophic levels could result in altered top‐down and bottom‐up control and changes in interaction strength. To determine the possibility of a mismatch, we conducted a reciprocal‐transplant experiment involving Sarracenia purpurea food webs consisting of bacterial communities as prey and a subset of six morphologically similar protozoans as predators. We used a factorial design with four temperatures, four bacteria and protozoan biogeographic origins, replicated four times. This design allowed us to determine how predator and prey dynamics were altered by abiotic (temperature) conditions and biotic (predators paired with prey from either their local or non‐local biogeographic origin) conditions. We found that prey reached higher densities in warmer temperature regardless of their temperature of origin. Conversely, predators achieved higher densities in the temperature condition and with the prey from their origin. These results confirm that predators perform better in abiotic and biotic conditions of their origin while their prey do not. This mismatch between trophic levels may be especially significant under climate change, potentially disrupting ecosystem functioning by disproportionately affecting top‐down and bottom‐up control. 相似文献
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Benthic sediment influence on dissolved phosphorus concentrations in a headwater stream 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Phosphate interacts with inorganic sediment particles through sorption reactions in streams. Collectively, this phosphorus
(P) buffering mechanism can be an important determinant of soluble reactive P (SRP) concentrations. If sorption reactions
control SRP concentrations in a stream, then differences in sediment characteristics may cause spatial differences in SRP
concentrations. This prediction was tested by examining sediment-buffering characteristics and spatial variation in SRP among
reaches with distinct sediment composition (i.e., fine versus coarse particles) in two tributaries of Boulder Creek, a headwater
stream in central Wisconsin. SRP concentrations were significantly lower and algal available P and P sorption capacity were
significantly higher in the reach dominated by fine sediments. Although fine particles such as sand had the greatest P sorption
capacity, no retention could be attributed to biotic processes, whereas over 50% of P retention in coarse particles such as
gravel could be linked to biotic uptake. Equilibrium P concentration (EPC0) assays from different sediment fractions also indicate that biotic uptake is relatively unimportant in sand particles (EPClive 10 μg/L: EPCkilled 10 μg/L) but very important in gravel or larger particles (EPClive 10 μg/L: EPCkilled 80 μg/L). Thus, sediment influence on stream water P concentrations can shift predictably from abiotic sorption in reaches
with fine particles to biotic retention in areas dominated by coarse sediments. Consequently, changes in sediment composition
due to natural or anthropogenic disturbance have the potential to alter the type and strength of sediment-associated processes
determining ambient stream P concentrations. 相似文献
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Sally G. Hornor 《Geomicrobiology journal》2013,30(4):359-371
Microbially mediated leaching and solubilization of zinc ore concentrate by native aquatic microbial communities incubated under aerobic and oxygen‐limited conditions were examined in static microcosms consisting of stream sediment and water. Sterile controls provided information on abiotic sulfide oxidation and leaching of zinc, lead, cadmium, and copper. The flux of these heavy metals from the sediments to the water column was greatest under biotic oxygen‐limited conditions. When calculated as the percentage of total metal available in zinc concentrate‐amended microcosms, the order of metal solubilization under oxygen‐limited conditions was lead, copper, zinc, and cadmium. Under biotic aerobic conditions, the order of solubilization was zinc, lead, cadmium, and copper. This study indicates that aquatic heterotrophs are capable of leaching and solubilizing metallic sulfides under conditions of neutral to slightly acidic pH and are effective in releasing heavy metals to the water column under oxygen‐limited conditions. 相似文献
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藻类胞外聚合物(extracellular polymeric substances, EPS)是一种复杂的高分子聚合物,主要由多糖、蛋白质等物质组成。由于EPS具有独特的结构、大的比表面积及含有大量官能团等物理-化学特性,使其在污水处理及微藻生物质的絮凝回收等方面都有着非常重要的作用。本文系统介绍了EPS的组成及特性,重点论述了影响藻类EPS产生的生物因素及非生物因素,如光照、营养盐、pH及温度等,并对EPS在污水处理及生物絮凝方面的应用进行了总结。对藻类EPS产生机制及机理的深入研究有望为微藻提供更广阔的应用前景。 相似文献
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James D. M. Speed Ina snes Skjelbred Isabel C. Barrio Michael D. Martin Dominique Berteaux C. Guillermo Bueno Katie S. Christie Bruce C. Forbes Jennifer Forbey Daniel Fortin John‐Arvid Grytnes Katrine S. Hoset Nicolas Lecomte Bryndís Marteinsdttir Jesper Bruun Mosbacher shild
nvik Pedersen Virve Ravolainen Eileen C. Rees Anna Skarin Natalya Sokolova Andrew H. Thornhill Ingunn Tombre Eeva M. Soininen 《Ecography》2019,42(6):1152-1163
Communities are assembled from species that evolve or colonise a given geographic region, and persist in the face of abiotic conditions and interactions with other species. The evolutionary and colonisation histories of communities are characterised by phylogenetic diversity, while functional diversity is indicative of abiotic and biotic conditions. The relationship between functional and phylogenetic diversity infers whether species functional traits are divergent (differing between related species) or convergent (similar among distantly related species). Biotic interactions and abiotic conditions are known to influence macroecological patterns in species richness, but how functional and phylogenetic diversity of guilds vary with biotic factors, and the relative importance of biotic drivers in relation to geographic and abiotic drivers is unknown. In this study, we test whether geographic, abiotic or biotic factors drive biome‐scale spatial patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity and functional convergence in vertebrate herbivores across the Arctic tundra biome. We found that functional and phylogenetic diversity both peaked in the western North American Arctic, and that spatial patterns in both were best predicted by trophic interactions, namely vegetation productivity and predator diversity, as well as climatic severity. Our results show that both bottom–up and top–down trophic interactions, as well as winter temperatures, drive the functional and phylogenetic structure of Arctic vertebrate herbivore assemblages. This has implications for changing Arctic ecosystems; under future warming and northward movement of predators potential increases in phylogenetic and functional diversity in vertebrate herbivores may occur. Our study thus demonstrates that trophic interactions can determine large‐scale functional and phylogenetic diversity just as strongly as abiotic conditions. 相似文献
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Natural communities are highly complex and dynamic over time, with populations structured by numerous abiotic and biotic forces acting through direct and indirect pathways. Multispecies Autoregressive (MAR) modeling can be used to partition effects of variables that are interrelated and temporally autocorrelated in time series from natural systems. Here we address two main questions in applying MAR models to community time series. First, what is the effect of observation scale on interpretation of community dynamics? We used a 10‐year weekly planktonic time series from Lake Washington to construct multiple “biweekly” and “monthly” data sets, and compared resulting community interaction models. Direct abiotic effects and intraspecific autocorrelation were apparent using all data sets. Biotic interactions were more apparent using biweekly and monthly data, indicating that time lags longer than one week were necessary to detect numerical response to interspecific interactions. Second, we examined effects of dropping the winter months from our analyses to simulate the common practice of sampling only during the “growing season” in long‐term ecological studies. We found that biotic interactions remained similarly characterized in models using only non‐winter months, but that the importance of seasonal physical factors nearly disappeared in non‐winter models. Exclusion of winter data in sampling designs may therefore allow us to characterize biotic interactions, although it may not help us understand populations’ relationships to seasonal abiotic variables. The models supported many previous findings from experimental and qualitative investigations of Lake Washington community interactions, implying that MARs provided plausible characterizations of community dynamics, but some previously unconsidered relationships did emerge, such as the importance of cryptomonads and picoplankton for zooplankton growth. We conclude that explicit consideration of time lags in biotic response is necessary to understand relative importance of abiotic and biotic factors, and that sampling regime can therefore strongly influence our interpretations of community dynamics. 相似文献
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Lucas J. Stal 《Ecological Engineering》2010,36(2):236-245
The properties and behavior of intertidal marine sediments cannot be understood without taking their biology into account. Biological factors are important for the stability and erosion threshold of intertidal sediments as well as for sediment transport. In this paper I focus on intertidal sediments that are colonized and dominated by phototrophic microorganisms and their impact on the morphodynamics and sediment stabilization. The emphasis is on epipelic diatoms. These organisms exude copious amounts of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that may contribute to the stability of the sediment by gluing and binding. I review the factors that lead to the development of such microphytobenthic communities and the processes that lead to the exudation of EPS and its fate in intertidal mudflats. Epipelic diatoms exude EPS partly as the result of unbalanced growth. Extraction of EPS from cultures of epipelic diatoms yields two operational fractions. While one fraction contains largely neutral EPS, which may serve as a carbon- and energy reserve for the organism, the other is acidic and more recalcitrant to degradation. The latter EPS fraction is therefore predominant in the muddy sediment and may be responsible for increasing the erosion threshold. However, since extracted EPS alone is incapable of increasing the erosion threshold, diatoms are apparently actively involved in the structuring of the biofilm matrix. Therefore, sediment stabilization cannot be attributed simply to EPS alone. 相似文献
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Species occurrence in a site can be limited by both the abiotic environment and biotic interactions. These two factors operate in concert, but their relative importance is often unclear. By experimentally introducing seeds or plants into competition‐free gaps or into the intact vegetation, we can disentangle the biotic and abiotic effects on plant establishment. We established a seed‐sowing/transplant experiment in three different meadows. Species were introduced, as seeds and pregrown transplants, into competition‐free gaps and the intact vegetation. They included 12 resident plants from the locality and 18 species typical for different habitats. Last two years, gaps were overgrown with vegetation from surrounding plants and we observed the competitive exclusion of our focal plants. We compared plant survival with the expected occurrence in target locality (Beals index). Many of the species with habitat preferences different from our localities were able to successfully establish from seeds and grow in the focal habitat if competition was removed. They included species typical for much drier conditions. These species were thus not limited by the abiotic conditions, but by competition. Pregrown transplants were less sensitive to competition, when compared to seedlings germinated from seeds. Beals index significantly predicted both species success in gaps and the ability to withstand competition. Survival in a community is dependent on the adaptation to both the abiotic environment and biotic interactions. Statistically significant correlation coefficients of the ratio of seedling survival in vegetation and gaps with Beals index suggest the importance of biotic interactions as a determinant of plant community composition. To disentangle the importance of abiotic and biotic effect on plant establishment, it is important to distinguish between species pool as a set of species typically found in given community type (determined by Beals index) and a set of species for which the abiotic conditions are suitable. 相似文献
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《Geomicrobiology journal》2013,30(5):463-478
Intertidal sediments are important areas that separate the land from the sea and form natural coastal defenses. They are known as highly productive ecosystems, fueling the coastal food web. It is also conceived that microphytobenthos contribute to the stability of intertidal sediments by increasing the erosion threshold and that they are major players in coastal morphodynamics. Depending on the sedimentary composition of intertidal flats, different types of microphytobenthos colonize the sediment surface. Fine sand sediment is often colonized by cyanobacteria, prokaryotic algae, which form dense and rigid microbial mats. Mudflats on the other hand are characterized by the development of thin biofilms of epipelic diatoms. Both groups of phototrophic microorganisms excrete extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), but they do so in different ways and for different reasons. Two operationally defined fractions, water- and EDTA-extractable EPS, have been obtained from intertidal diatom biofilms and from cultures. They differ in composition and their production seems to be under different metabolic control. Water-extractable EPS are considered to be closely associated with the diatoms and are rich in neutral sugars, notably glucose. These EPS show a dynamic relationship with the microphytobenthic biomass. EDTA-extractable EPS are tightly bound to the sediment, probably through bridging by divalent ions. This material is rich in uronic acids and other acid sugars and is weakly related to chlorophyll. These EPS have been conceived to be a major factor in the structuring and diagenesis of coastal sediments and essential for increasing the sediment erosion threshold. However, this relationship is now questioned. 相似文献
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Simon Navel Florian Mermillod‐Blondin Bernard Montuelle Eric Chauvet Pierre Marmonier 《Oikos》2012,121(7):1134-1144
By modifying the physical environment, ecosystem engineers can have inordinately large effects on surrounding communities and ecosystem functioning. However, the significance of engineering in ecosystems greatly depends on the physical characteristics of the engineered habitats. Mechanisms underlying such context‐dependent impact of engineers remain poorly understood even though they are crucial to establish general predictions concerning the contribution of engineers to ecosystem structure and function. The present study aimed to decrypt such mechanisms by determining how the environmental context modulates the effects of ecosystem engineers (bioturbators) on microorganisms in river sediments. To test the effects of environmental context on the role of bioturbators in sediments, we used mesocosms and recreated two sedimentary contexts in the laboratory by adding a layer of either fine or coarse sand at the top of a gravel‐sand matrix. For each sediment context, we examined how the sediment reworking activity of a bioturbating tubificid worm (Tubifex tubifex) generated changes in the physical (sediment structure and permeability) and abiotic environments (hydraulic discharge, water chemistry) of microorganisms. Microbial characteristics (abundances, activities) and leaf litter decomposition – a major microbially‐mediated ecological process – were measured to evaluate the impact of bioturbation on biotic compartment. Our results showed that the permeability, the availability of oxygen and the activities of microorganisms were reduced in sediments covered with fine sand, in comparison with sediments covered with coarse sand. Tubifex tubifex significantly increased permeability (by about six‐fold), restored aerobic conditions and ultimately stimulated microbial communities (resulting in a 30% increase in leaf litter breakdown rate) in sediments covered with fine sand. In contrast T. tubifex had low effects in sediments topped by coarse sand, where O2 was already available for hyporheic microorganisms. Our study supports the idea that context dependency mainly modulates the effects of engineering by controlling the ability of engineers to create changes on abiotic (O2 in the present study) factors that are limiting for surrounding communities. 相似文献
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Trophic and non‐trophic interactions influence the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships under different abiotic conditions
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Plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning usually have been studied from a plant perspective. However, the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships may also depend on positive or negative interactions between plants and other biotic and abiotic factors, which remain poorly understood. Here we assessed whether plant–herbivore and/or plant–detritivore interactions modify the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship and the mechanisms underlying biodiversity effects, including complementarity and selection effects, biomass allocation, vertical distribution of roots, and plant survival using a microcosm experiment. We also evaluated to what extent trophic and non‐trophic interactions are affected by abiotic conditions by studying drought effects. Our results show that biotic and abiotic conditions influence the shape of the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship, varying from hump‐shaped to linear. For instance, total biomass increased linearly with plant richness in the presence of detritivores, but not in the absence of detritivores. Moreover, detritivore effects on belowground plant productivity were highly context dependent, varying in the presence of herbivores. Plant interactions with soil biota, especially with herbivores, influenced the mechanisms underlying diversity effects. Herbivores increased plant complementarity and modified biomass allocation and vertical distribution of roots. Furthermore, biotic–abiotic interactions influenced plant productivity differently across plant functional groups. Our findings emphasize the importance of complex biotic interactions underlying biodiversity effects, and that these biotic interactions may change with abiotic conditions. Despite minor changes in productivity in the short‐term, soil biota‐induced changes in plant–plant interactions and plant survival are likely to have significant long‐term consequences for ecosystem functioning. Considering the context‐dependency of multichannel interactions may contribute to reconciling differences among observed patterns in biodiversity studies. Further, abiotic conditions modified the effects of biotic interactions, suggesting that changes in environmental conditions may not only affect ecosystems directly, but also change the biotic composition of and dynamics within ecosystems. 相似文献
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Carl Van Colen Dominique Verbelen Koen Devos Laure Agten Joke Van Tomme Magda Vincx Steven Degraer 《Biodiversity and Conservation》2014,23(4):877-889
This study explores the relation between sediment composition and intertidal macrobenthos populations in the Zwin nature reserve (Belgium and The Netherlands), a tidal lagoon that is included in the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance and has been designated as Natura 2000 area, among others due to its function as wintering habitat for shorebirds that feed upon macrobenthic invertebrates. Species response models show highest biomass of these prey species in organically enriched cohesive sediments and a distinct decline in probability of occurrence for most species in coarse sediments. Further, the biomass of macrobenthos declined between 2003 and 2010 in the extensive low intertidal inlet channel concurrent with the coarsening of the sediment over time in this hydrodynamically stressed habitat. In contrast, macrobenthos biomass increased in a sheltered shallow intertidal habitat that acted as a catchment area for finer sediments, therefore facilitating the succession towards a higher elevated habitat with salt marsh vegetation establishment. Hence, spatio-temporal sediment dynamics decreased site quality for intertidal predators due to a reduction in feeding areas over time, and a change in physical sediment properties that alter the macrobenthos species occurrence and population biomass. This study thus illustrates that sediment transport dynamics may affect the functioning of coastal shallow soft-sediment habitats, like coastal lagoons. The presented macrobenthos species response models provide a tool to assist in management actions that enable the conservation of cohesive low intertidal habitats that provide a high food supply to shorebirds, fish and macrocrustaceans. 相似文献