Taxonomic and functional aspects of diversity and composition of plankton communities in shallow lentic ecosystems along the human impact and environmental gradients

Stamenković, Olivera; Piperac, Milica Stojković; Čerba, Dubravka; Milošević, Djuradj; Ostojić, Аleksandar; Đorđević, Nevena B.; Simić, Snežana B.; Cvijanović, Dušanka; Buzhdygan, Oksana Y.

doi:10.1007/s00027-022-00893-0

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“…The number of trait-based rotifer studies has increased in recent years, and these studies indicate the explanatory power of traits to indicate environmental change. An important issue in trait-based research is the question of which traits to consider [19,56]. For rotifers, morphological attributes and feeding traits are generally used, while physiological and phenological traits are almost never assessed because those features are temperature dependent and critical information is missing for most species.…”

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“…Judgements on the utility of rotifer traits were mixed, and in the case of merging rotifer traits with other zooplankton taxa, a judgement was impossible. Of the remaining studies (n = 48), few studies criticized the performance of rotifer traits in discerning environmental differences [55][56][57].…”

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“…The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https:// www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/w15081459/s1, Table S1: List of the 66 inspected studies with their publication year, studied habitat, country of provenance, journal name, impact factor, quartile rank, provision of traits, and application of the guild ratio [20][21][22]24,34,37,38,44,[47][48][49][50][51][52][54][55][56][57]80,83,; Table S2: Trait assignment for the 138 genera of phylum Rotifera [31,32,59,60,64,77,; Table S3: Rotifer genera with their traits and their cluster number as assigned by hierarchical, divisive clustering.…”

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Trait-Based Research on Rotifera: The Holy Grail or Just Messy?

Obertegger

Wallace

2023

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In recent years, trait-based research on plankton has gained interest because of its potential to uncover general roles in ecology. While trait categories for phytoplankton and crustaceans have been posited, rotifer trait assessment has lagged behind. Here, we reviewed the literature to assess traits key to their life histories and provided a data matrix for the 138 valid genera of phylum Rotifera. We considered seven traits: habitat type, trophi type, presence of lorica and foot, predation defense attributes, corona type, and feeding traits. While most traits were morphological attributes and supposedly easy to assess, we were faced with several challenges regarding trait assignment. Feeding traits were especially difficult to assess for many genera because relevant information was missing. Our assembled trait matrix provides a foundation that will initiate additional research on rotifer functional diversity, diminish the misclassification of rotifer genera into trait categories, and facilitate studies across trophic levels.

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Different responses of taxonomic and functional diversity to environmental changes: case study of fish communities in the Zhoushan fishing ground, China

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Wang,

et al. 2023

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The resilience and responses of sh communities to environmental stressors have been evidenced to associated with the community structure of sh such as sh biodiversity. What remains unknown, however, is that whether different components of biodiversity responds to environmental changes consistently or differently. Traditional researches about biodiversity and its environmental drivers were mostly based on taxonomic level, and often ignored functional traits of shes. In this study, we investigated the seasonal patterns of sh biodiversity and their environmental drivers. Biodiversity indices were measured by species abundance and functional traits data, respectively and named taxonomic diversity (TD) and functional diversity (FD), respectively. Our results showed signi cant difference of sh biodiversity indices at least between two seasons with exception for functional evenness (FEve). Compared with TD, FD showed more changeable along season. Both TD and FD were signi cantly related to several environmental variables at least in one season, and the response of them to environmental changes were different. In addition, environmental variables played important roles in shaped sh community structure in the study area with eight environmental variables (i.e., salinity, temperature, nitrite, DP, IN, TN, silicate, and PO 4 3-) signi cantly related to taxonomic structure and three variables (i.e., AN, TD, and COD) signi cantly related to functional structure. These ndings provide evidence that trait-based approach is necessary when assess the responses of sh communities to environmental changes.

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