Taxonomic distinctness indices for discriminating patterns in freshwater rotifer assemblages

Στάμου, Γεώργιος; Polyzou, Chrysoula; Karagianni, Aikaterini; Michaloudi, Evangelia

doi:10.1007/s10750-016-2894-4

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“…In addition to studies targeting individual species or groups of species, other approaches presented here address issues of community ecology and correlates of biological diversity (Lokko et al, 2017;Meyer et al, 2017;Stamou et al, 2017).…”

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Preface: evolving rotifers, evolving science

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Preface: evolving rotifers, evolving science

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“…However, zooplankton is an important component of the pelagic food web, since it contributes to many ecosystem functions such as the transfer of primary production biomass to higher organisms [6], and the increase of water clarity through grazing of the available phytoplankton biomass [7,8]. Moreover, zooplankton communities, due to their quick response to changes resulting from trophic cascades either through bottom-up or top-down control [6], have been used in trophic state assessments [9][10][11], in aquatic ecotoxicology [12][13][14], and in providing information about water quality [15,16] and for discriminating anthropogenically disturbed lakes [17]. Thus, the knowledge of this part of the food web is essential for understanding the function and the structure of lake ecosystems and should be used in monitoring programs [5].…”

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Grazing Potential—A Functional Plankton Food Web Metric for Ecological Water Quality Assessment in Mediterranean Lakes

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Grazing potential (GP, in % day−1) was estimated for the plankton communities of 13 Greek lakes covering the trophic spectrum, in order to examine its sensitiveness in discriminating different classes of ecological water quality. Lakes with high GP values exhibited high zooplankton biomass dominated by large cladocerans or/and calanoids while lakes with low GP values had increased phytoplankton biomass and/or domination of small-bodied zooplankton indicating intensive fish predation. GP successfully distinguished among ecological water quality classes (estimated using the phytoplankton water quality index PhyCoI) indicating its potential use as a metric for ecological water quality assessment. As a next step, PhyCoI index was modified to include GP as a metric in order to enhance the phytoplankton-based ecological status classification of lakes incorporating zooplankton as a supporting factor. The PhyCoIGP successfully assessed the ecological water quality in accordance with PhyCoI classification whereas it was significantly correlated with the eutrophication proxy TSISD based on Secchi Depth. Thus, we propose to use the modified phytoplankton index PhyCoIGP for monitoring the ecological water quality of lakes.

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