DISPERSE, a trait database to assess the dispersal potential of European aquatic macroinvertebrates

Sarremejane, Romain; Cid, Núria; Stubbington, Rachel; Datry, Thibault; Alp, Maria; Cañedo‐Argüelles, Miguel; Cordero‐Rivera, Adolfo; Csabai, Zoltán; Gutiérrez‐Cánovas, Cayetano; Heino, Jani; Forcellini, Maxence; Millán, Andrés; Paillex, Amael; Pařil, Petr; Polášek, Marek; Figueroa, José Manuel Tierno de; Usseglio‐Polatera, Philippe; Zamora‐Muñoz, Carmen; Bonada, Núria

doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00732-7

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“…This group of organisms is widely used in water quality biomonitoring. Large scale routine surveys have provided huge datasets gathering information on their distribution, community composition and some of their traits (Tachet et al 2010, Schmidt‐Kloiber and Hering 2015, Sarremejane et al 2020). Based on the assumption that macroinvertebrate development follows predictions of GRH originally addressing growth rate, we specifically addressed the questions whether 1) the stoichiometry (N:P, C:P, C:N) of macroinvertebrates can be linked to their development‐related traits and 2) the community composition regarding development characteristics can be related to changes in environmental nutrient concentrations.…”

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Extending the growth rate hypothesis to species development: Can stoichiometric traits help to explain the composition of macroinvertebrate communities?

Beck

Mondy

Danger

et al. 2021

Oikos

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Ecological stoichiometry seeks to understand the ecological consequences of elemental imbalances between consumers and their resources. Therein, the well-accepted growth rate hypothesis (GRH) states that organisms exhibiting rapid growth have higher phosphorus (P) demand -and thus lower C:P and N:P ratios -than slow growing ones, due to a higher allocation to P-rich rRNA. However, GRH has rarely been extended to other biological traits than growth, especially at the community level. In this study, we investigated whether macroinvertebrate stoichiometric traits (e.g. C:P and N:P ratios) can be linked to their development traits, and whether these stoichiometric traits are related to macroinvertebrate community assemblage under different nutrient conditions. We allocated more than 400 European taxa to different groups, defined using available information about three development-related traits: 'life span', 'voltinism' and 'number of reproductive cycles per individual'. We sampled 18 invertebrate taxa in six streams exhibiting different levels of nutrient concentration and measured their stoichiometric traits. Further, we quantified invertebrate taxon abundances in these streams during an annual survey. Based on these data, we tested whether community composition regarding the developmental groups differs, depending on nutrient concentration. We found significant differences in the proportions of the developmental groups along a gradient of water N:P, in relation to their stoichiometric traits. Taxa with low C:P and N:P ratios were generally associated with faster development groups, and these taxa tended to occur at higher proportions in streams exhibiting low dissolved N:P ratios. In contrast, communities from P-poor, high dissolved N:P streams, were dominated by slowly developing taxa with high N:P ratios. Our results highlight that extending the GRH to species development rate might give some insights about the mechanisms by which nutrient concentrations in ecosystems influence consumers' community composition.

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Extending the growth rate hypothesis to species development: Can stoichiometric traits help to explain the composition of macroinvertebrate communities?

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Mondy

Danger

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“…To classify taxa according to their documented ability to tolerate drying via resistance and/or resilience mechanisms, we used nine traits (subdivided in 23 categories; Table S2) relating to life cycles, morphology, physiology and behaviour, sourced from Tachet et al (2010) and Sarremejane, Cid, et al (2020). We used a fuzzy‐coding approach to assign traits to taxa at the genus level, with affinities standardized as the percentage affinity for each category within a trait.…”

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Drought effects on invertebrate metapopulation dynamics and quasi‐extinction risk in an intermittent river network

Sarremejane

Stubbington

England

et al. 2021

Global Change Biology

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Ecological communities can remain stable in the face of disturbance if their constituent species have different resistance and resilience strategies. In turn, local stability scales up regionally if heterogeneous landscapes maintain spatial asynchrony across discrete populations—but not if large‐scale stressors synchronize environmental conditions and biological responses. Here, we hypothesized that droughts could drastically decrease the stability of invertebrate metapopulations both by filtering out poorly adapted species locally, and by synchronizing their dynamics across a river network. We tested this hypothesis via multivariate autoregressive state‐space (MARSS) models on spatially replicated, long‐term data describing aquatic invertebrate communities and hydrological conditions in a set of temperate, lowland streams subject to seasonal and supraseasonal drying events. This quantitative approach allowed us to assess the influence of local (flow magnitude) and network‐scale (hydrological connectivity) drivers on invertebrate long‐term trajectories, and to simulate near‐future responses to a range of drought scenarios. We found that fluctuations in species abundances were heterogeneous across communities and driven by a combination of hydrological and stochastic drivers. Among metapopulations, increasing extent of dry reaches reduced the abundance of functional groups with low resistance or resilience capacities (i.e. low ability to persist in situ or recolonize from elsewhere, respectively). Our simulations revealed that metapopulation quasi‐extinction risk for taxa vulnerable to drought increased exponentially as flowing habitats contracted within the river network, whereas the risk for taxa with resistance and resilience traits remained stable. Our results suggest that drought can be a synchronizing agent in riverscapes, potentially leading to regional quasi‐extinction of species with lower resistance and resilience abilities. Better recognition of drought‐driven synchronization may increase realism in species extinction forecasts as hydroclimatic extremes continue to intensify worldwide.

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“…The general purpose of our study was to test how dispersal ability modifies SOFD distribution in eight macroinvertebrate orders from 14 eutrophic lakes in southern Finland. Previous study has found that different aquatic insect orders differed in dispersal ability (Sarremejane et al 2020).…”

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Macroinvertebrate species occupancy frequency distribution patterns in eutrophic lakes

Suhonen

Paasivirta²,

Rantala

et al. 2021

Aquat Ecol

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Metacommunity models describe species occupancy frequency distribution (hereinafter ‘SOFD’). Our goal is to present how the differences in eight macroinvertebrate orders dispersal ability affect SOFD patterns. A total of 293 species from eight macroinvertebrate orders were observed in 14 eutrophic lakes in southern Finland. Species occupancy ranged from 1 to 14. About 30% (89 out of 293) of the species were found in only one lake, yielding a surprisingly high number of rare species. So, there were few widely distributed common species and numerous rare species with a restricted distribution. Combined data from eight macroinvertebrate orders supported the bimodal truncated SOFD pattern. Similarly, the low dispersal ability orders, watermites and mayflies, fitted the bimodal truncated SOFD pattern. However, bimodal symmetric SOFD pattern also fitted relatively well to the dragonflies and damselflies with high dispersal ability. It seems that differences in dispersal ability among different macroinvertebrate orders may partly explain observed differences. Moreover, our results supported slightly more a niche-based model rather than a metapopulation dynamics model in eutrophic lakes littoral macroinvertebrate metacommunities. Our results highlight that the dispersal ability is important trait for species conservation in patchily distributed habitat.

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DISPERSE, a trait database to assess the dispersal potential of European aquatic macroinvertebrates

Cited by 94 publications

References 58 publications

Extending the growth rate hypothesis to species development: Can stoichiometric traits help to explain the composition of macroinvertebrate communities?

Extending the growth rate hypothesis to species development: Can stoichiometric traits help to explain the composition of macroinvertebrate communities?

Drought effects on invertebrate metapopulation dynamics and quasi‐extinction risk in an intermittent river network

Macroinvertebrate species occupancy frequency distribution patterns in eutrophic lakes

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