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Structural and functional development of twelve newly established floodplain pond mesocosms

Ecosystems are complex structures with interacting abiotic and biotic processes evolving with ongoing succession. However, limited knowledge exists on the very initial phase of ecosystem development and colonization. Here, we report results of a comprehensive ecosystem development monitoring for twe...

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Autores principales: Stehle, Sebastian, Manfrin, Alessandro, Feckler, Alexander, Graf, Tobias, Joschko, Tanja J., Jupke, Jonathan, Noss, Christian, Rösch, Verena, Schirmel, Jens, Schmidt, Thomas, Zubrod, Jochen P., Schulz, Ralf
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35309751
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8674
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author Stehle, Sebastian
Manfrin, Alessandro
Feckler, Alexander
Graf, Tobias
Joschko, Tanja J.
Jupke, Jonathan
Noss, Christian
Rösch, Verena
Schirmel, Jens
Schmidt, Thomas
Zubrod, Jochen P.
Schulz, Ralf
author_facet Stehle, Sebastian
Manfrin, Alessandro
Feckler, Alexander
Graf, Tobias
Joschko, Tanja J.
Jupke, Jonathan
Noss, Christian
Rösch, Verena
Schirmel, Jens
Schmidt, Thomas
Zubrod, Jochen P.
Schulz, Ralf
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description Ecosystems are complex structures with interacting abiotic and biotic processes evolving with ongoing succession. However, limited knowledge exists on the very initial phase of ecosystem development and colonization. Here, we report results of a comprehensive ecosystem development monitoring for twelve floodplain pond mesocosms (FPM; 23.5 m × 7.5 m × 1.5 m each) located in south‐western Germany. In total, 20 abiotic and biotic parameters, including structural and functional variables, were monitored for 21 months after establishment of the FPMs. The results showed evolving ecosystem development and primary succession in all FPMs, with fluctuating abiotic conditions over time. Principal component analyses and redundancy analyses revealed season and succession time (i.e., time since ecosystem establishment) to be significant drivers of changes in environmental conditions. Initial colonization of both aquatic (i.e., water bodies) and terrestrial (i.e., riparian land areas) parts of the pond ecosystems occurred within the first month, with subsequent season‐specific increases in richness and abundance for aquatic and terrestrial taxa over the entire study period. Abiotic environmental conditions and aquatic and terrestrial communities showed increasing interpond variations over time, that is, increasing heterogeneity among the FPMs due to natural environmental divergence. However, both functional variables assessed (i.e., aquatic and terrestrial litter decomposition) showed opposite patterns as litter decomposition rates slightly decreased over time and interpond differences converged with successional ecosystem developments. Overall, our results provide rare insights into the abiotic and biotic conditions and processes during the initial stages of freshwater ecosystem formation, as well as into structural and functional developments of the aquatic and terrestrial environment of newly established pond ecosystems.
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spelling pubmed-89026622022-03-17 Structural and functional development of twelve newly established floodplain pond mesocosms Stehle, Sebastian Manfrin, Alessandro Feckler, Alexander Graf, Tobias Joschko, Tanja J. Jupke, Jonathan Noss, Christian Rösch, Verena Schirmel, Jens Schmidt, Thomas Zubrod, Jochen P. Schulz, Ralf Ecol Evol Research Articles Ecosystems are complex structures with interacting abiotic and biotic processes evolving with ongoing succession. However, limited knowledge exists on the very initial phase of ecosystem development and colonization. Here, we report results of a comprehensive ecosystem development monitoring for twelve floodplain pond mesocosms (FPM; 23.5 m × 7.5 m × 1.5 m each) located in south‐western Germany. In total, 20 abiotic and biotic parameters, including structural and functional variables, were monitored for 21 months after establishment of the FPMs. The results showed evolving ecosystem development and primary succession in all FPMs, with fluctuating abiotic conditions over time. Principal component analyses and redundancy analyses revealed season and succession time (i.e., time since ecosystem establishment) to be significant drivers of changes in environmental conditions. Initial colonization of both aquatic (i.e., water bodies) and terrestrial (i.e., riparian land areas) parts of the pond ecosystems occurred within the first month, with subsequent season‐specific increases in richness and abundance for aquatic and terrestrial taxa over the entire study period. Abiotic environmental conditions and aquatic and terrestrial communities showed increasing interpond variations over time, that is, increasing heterogeneity among the FPMs due to natural environmental divergence. However, both functional variables assessed (i.e., aquatic and terrestrial litter decomposition) showed opposite patterns as litter decomposition rates slightly decreased over time and interpond differences converged with successional ecosystem developments. Overall, our results provide rare insights into the abiotic and biotic conditions and processes during the initial stages of freshwater ecosystem formation, as well as into structural and functional developments of the aquatic and terrestrial environment of newly established pond ecosystems. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8902662/ /pubmed/35309751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8674 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Schirmel, Jens
Schmidt, Thomas
Zubrod, Jochen P.
Schulz, Ralf
Structural and functional development of twelve newly established floodplain pond mesocosms
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title_short Structural and functional development of twelve newly established floodplain pond mesocosms
title_sort structural and functional development of twelve newly established floodplain pond mesocosms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35309751
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8674
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