How Does the Landscape Affect Metacommunity Structure? A Quantitative Review for Lentic Environments

Almeida‐Gomes, Mauricio; Valente‐Neto, Francisco; Pacheco, Eduardo Oliveira; Ganci, Carolina Cunha; Leibold, Mathew A.; Melo, Adriano S.; Provete, Diogo B.

doi:10.1007/s40823-020-00049-6

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“…Lakes are good model systems to study metacommunity ecology, as they are environmentally highly heterogeneous and biologically diverse (Cottenie et al ., 2003; Soininen et al ., 2011; Heino et al ., 2017; Almeida‐Gomes et al ., 2020). They represent targets for moving organisms, surrounded by uninhabitable terrestrial habitats for many aquatic species.…”

Section: Lakes As Waterscapes Underlying the Movement Of Organisms Anmentioning

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Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

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The Anthropocene presents formidable threats to freshwater ecosystems. Lakes are especially vulnerable and important at the same time. They cover only a small area worldwide but harbour high levels of biodiversity and contribute disproportionately to ecosystem services. Lakes differ with respect to their general type (e.g. land‐locked, drainage, floodplain and large lakes) and position in the landscape (e.g. highland versus lowland lakes), which contribute to the dynamics of these systems. Lakes should be generally viewed as ‘meta‐systems’, whereby biodiversity is strongly affected by species dispersal, and ecosystem dynamics are contributed by the flow of matter and substances among locations in a broader waterscape context. Lake connectivity in the waterscape and position in the landscape determine the degree to which a lake is prone to invasion by non‐native species and accumulation of harmful substances. Highly connected lakes low in the landscape accumulate nutrients and pollutants originating from ecosystems higher in the landscape. The monitoring and restoration of lake biodiversity and ecosystem services should consider the fact that a high degree of dynamism is present at local, regional and global scales. However, local and regional monitoring may be plagued by the unpredictability of ecological phenomena, hindering adaptive management of lakes. Although monitoring data are increasingly becoming available to study responses of lakes to global change, we still lack suitable integration of models for entire waterscapes. Research across disciplinary boundaries is needed to address the challenges that lakes face in the Anthropocene because they may play an increasingly important role in harbouring unique aquatic biota as well as providing ecosystem goods and services in the future.

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Section: Lakes As Waterscapes Underlying the Movement Of Organisms Anmentioning

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Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

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“…Nevertheless, even though there are clear conceptual connections between them, the link between metacommunity and landscape ecology remains poorly resolved (Almeida-Gomes et al, 2020). To a large degree, this is because metacommunity ecology has focused more on species attributes and how they contribute to community assembly than to site attributes.…”

Section: Metacommunity Structure In Microorganisms: Toward Landscape mentioning

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A Landscape of Opportunities for Microbial Ecology Research

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Microbes encompass tremendous biodiversity, provide support to all living forms, including humans, and play an important role in many ecosystem services. The rules that govern microorganism community assembly are increasingly revealed due to key advances in molecular and analytical methods but their understanding remain a key challenge in microbial ecology. The existence of biogeographic patterns within microbial communities has been established and explained in relation to landscape-scale processes, including selection, drift, dispersal and mutation. The effect of habitat patchiness on microorganisms’ assembly rules remains though incompletely understood. Here, we review how landscape ecology principles can be adapted to explore new perspectives on the mechanisms that determine microbial community structure. To provide a general overview, we characterize microbial landscapes, the spatial and temporal scales of the mechanisms that drive microbial assembly and the feedback between microorganisms and landscape structure. We provide evidence for the effects of landscape heterogeneity, landscape fragmentation and landscape dynamics on microbial community structure, and show that predictions made for macro-organisms at least partly also apply to microorganisms. We explain why emerging metacommunity approaches in microbial ecology should include explicit characterization of landscape structure in their development and interpretation. We also explain how biotic interactions, such as competition, prey-predator or mutualist relations may influence the microbial landscape and may be involved in the above-mentioned feedback process. However, we argue that the application of landscape ecology to the microbial world cannot simply involve transposing existing theoretical frameworks. This is due to the particularity of these organisms, in terms of size, generation time, and for some of them, tight interaction with hosts. These characteristics imply dealing with unusual and dependent space and time scales of effect. Evolutionary processes have also a strong importance in microorganisms’ response to their landscapes. Lastly, microorganisms’ activity and distribution induce feedback effects on the landscape that have to be taken into account. The transposition of the landscape ecology framework to microorganisms provides many challenging research directions for microbial ecology.

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“…According to metacommunity theory (Leibold et al, 2004), the structure of local communities results from the interplay between local factors (e.g., environmental filtering, species interactions) and regional factors (e.g., dispersal rates, landscape configuration). The relative importance of these factors is highly dependent on the organisms' biological traits, landscape connectivity, and the spatial and temporal scales considered (Heino et al, 2015;Tonkin et al, 2018;Viana and Chase, 2019;Almeida-Gomes et al, 2020;Cañedo-Argüelles et al, 2020;Lansac-Tôha et al, 2021). However, the differences in metacommunity assembly mechanisms found among studies are far from being fully understood.…”

Section: Spatio-temporal Dynamics Of Metacommunities -Implications Fomentioning

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Editorial: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Metacommunities - Implications for Conservation and Management

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How Does the Landscape Affect Metacommunity Structure? A Quantitative Review for Lentic Environments

Cited by 16 publications

References 60 publications

Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single‐lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services

A Landscape of Opportunities for Microbial Ecology Research

Editorial: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Metacommunities - Implications for Conservation and Management

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