Profundal benthic invertebrate communities in boreal lakes vary with climate fluctuation

Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Hydrologie - Tập 77 - Trang 261-269 - 2014
Jussi Jyväsjärvi1, Heikki Hämäläinen2
1Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
2Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

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Despite increasing evidence that climate change affects aquatic ecosystems, influences on lake benthic communities are still poorly known. We studied the effects of short-term climatic fluctuation on profundal benthic invertebrates using at least six annual samples (over 6–17 years) from 38 Finnish lake basins. Faunal abundance, species diversity and species composition were related to annual winter and summer North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) indices as measures of climatic fluctuation. Algal productivity, hypolimnetic oxygen concentration and water temperature weakly increased during the positive NAO periods. Profundal macroinvertebrate abundance and species diversity declined with increasing NAO in summer, but not winter. The main gradient of species compositional overturn (DCA axis 1) was negatively associated with lake productivity and varied independent of NAO, whereas the secondary gradient (DCA axis 2) correlated positively with hypolimnetic temperature and winter NAO. The responses of species diversity and abundance to climatic fluctuation were not related to any measured lake-specific environmental characteristics, but the response of species composition (DCA axis 1) to NAO showed a consistent negative association with lake depth and trophic status, so that size and even direction of compositional response to NAO was related to these two lake characteristics. Our study suggests that local profundal benthic macroinvertebrate communities can respond rapidly to short-term, large-scale climate fluctuation and hence that future global warming can be expected to modify these sensitive communities considerably.

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