Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Zooplankton temporal beta diversity along the longitudinal axis of a tropical reservoir

  • Research paper
  • Published:
Limnology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Different processes, including ecological drift, environmental changes, and biotic homogenization, can explain variation in temporal beta diversity. Here, we aimed to analyze the temporal beta diversity of zooplankton communities along the longitudinal axis of a reservoir using two analytical approaches. As for the first approach, we predicted that that beta diversity would be positively correlated with limnological variability. We used multiple samples-based metrics to estimate beta diversity among 62 sampling months at six sampling sites; after, we correlated these metrics with within-site temporal variability in limnological factors. As for the second approach, we predicted that between-months variation in community composition would be positively correlated with time lags and between-months environmental distances. Considering the multiple samples approach, we did not detect a significant relationship between temporal beta diversity and variability in limnological factors. Between-months beta diversity was unrelated to between-months differences in limnological and hydrological factors. Only temporal lags were significantly correlated with between-months beta diversity. Beta diversity and species richness were substantially highest at the lotic zone of the reservoir. Our results indicate that temporal beta diversity tends to be highly unpredictable and that most of the taxa contributing to the regional diversity of the reservoir disperse via its lotic region.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Almeida-Neto M, Guimarães P, Guimarães PRJ, Loyola RD, Ulrich W (2008) A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement. Oikos 117:1227–1239

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Anderson MJ (2006) Distance-based tests for homogeneity of multivariate dispersions. Biometrics 62:245–253

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Anderson MJ, Ellingsen KE, McArdle BH (2006) Multivariate dispersion as a measure of beta diversity. Ecol Lett 9:683–693

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Anderson MJ, Crist TO, Chase JM, Vellend M, Inouye BD, Freestone AL, Sanders NJ, Cornell HV, Comita LS, Davies KF, Harrison SP, Kraft NJB, Stegen JC, Swenson NG (2011) Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecol Lett 14:19–28

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Astorga A, Death R, Death F, Paavola R, Chakraborty M, Muotka T (2014) Habitat heterogeneity drives the geographical distribution of beta diversity: the case of New Zealand stream invertebrates. Ecol Evol 4:2693–2702

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Baselga A (2010) Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 19:134–143

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baselga A (2013) Multiple site dissimilarity quantifies compositional heterogeneity among several sites, while average pairwise dissimilarity may be misleading. Ecography 36:124–128

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baselga A, Orme CDL (2012) betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity. Methods Ecol Evol 3:808–812

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baselga A, Jiménez-Valverde A, Niccolini G (2007) A multiple-site similarity measure independent of richness. Biol Let 3:642–645

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bini LM, Landeiro VL, Padial AA, Siqueira T, Heino J (2014) Nutrient enrichment is related to two facets of beta diversity for stream invertebrates across the United States. Ecology 95:1569–1578

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bozelli RL, Thomaz SM, Padial AA, Lopes PM, Bini LM (2015) Floods decrease zooplankton beta diversity and environmental heterogeneity in an Amazonian floodplain system. Hydrobiologia 753:233–241

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Branco CWC, Kozlowsky-Suzuki B, Sousa-Filho IF, Guarino AWS, Rocha RJ (2009) Impact of climate on the vertical water column structure of Lajes Reservoir (Brazil): a tropical reservoir case. Lakes Reserv Res Manag 14:175–191

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Brown BL (2007) Habitat heterogeneity and disturbance influence patterns of community temporal variability in a small temperate stream. Hydrobiologia 586:93–106

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brown BL, Swan CM (2010) Dendritic network structure constrains metacommunity properties in riverine ecosystems. J Anim Ecol 79:571–580

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Brownstein G, Steel JB, Porter S, Gray A, Wilson C, Wilson PG, Wilson JB (2012) Chance in plant communities: a new approach to its measurement using the nugget from spatial autocorrelation. J Ecol 100:987–996

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chase JM, Kraft NJB, Smith KG, Vellend M, Inouye BD (2011) Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity. Ecosphere 2:1–11

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Collins SL, Micheli F, Hartt L (2000) A method to determine rates and patterns of variability in ecological communities. Oikos 91:285–293

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Bie T, De Meester L, Brendonck L, Martens K, Goddeeris B, Ercken D, Hampel H, Denys L, Vanhecke L, Van der Gucht K, Van Wichelen J, Vyverman W, Declerck SAJ (2012) Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms. Ecol Lett 15:740–747

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dornelas M, Gotelli NJ, McGill B, Shimaszu H, Moyes F, Sievers C, Magurran AE (2014) Assemblage time series reveal biodiversity change but not systematic loss. Science 344:296–299

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dray S, Legendre P, Blanchet G (2009) packfor: Forward selection with permutation (canoco p.46). R package versio n0.0-7/r58. http://R-Forge.R-project.org/projects/sedar/

  • Goslee SC, Urban DL (2007) The ecodist package for dissimilarity-based analysis of ecological data. J Stat Softw 22:1–19

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gotelli NJ, Colwell RK (2001) Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecol Lett 4:379–391

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gray DK, Arnott SE (2012) The role of dispersal levels, Allee effects and community resistance as zooplankton communities respond to environmental change. J Appl Ecol 49:1216–1224

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hatosy SM, Martiny JBH, Sachdeva R, Steele J, Fuhrman JA, Martiny AC (2013) Beta diversity of marine bacteria depends on temporal scale. Ecology 94:1898–1904

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Heino J, Grönroos M, Ilmonen J, Karhu T, Niva M, Paasivirta L (2013) Environmental heterogeneity and beta diversity of stream macroinvertebrate communities at intermediate spatial scales. Freshw Sci 32:142–154

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Heino J, Melo AS, Bini LM (2015a) Reconceptualising the beta diversity-environmental heterogeneity relationship in running water systems. Freshw Biol 60:223–235

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Heino J, Melo AS, Siqueira T, Soininen J, Valanko S, Bini LM (2015b) Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects. Freshw Biol 60:845–869

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hillebrand H, Soininen J, Snoeijs P (2010) Warming leads to higher species turnover in a coastal ecosystem. Glob Change Biol 16:1181–1193

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jones NT, Gilbert B (2018) Geographic signatures in species turnover: decoupling colonization and extinction across a latitudinal gradient. Oikos 127:507–517

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Korhonen JJ, Soininen J, Hillebrand H (2010) A quantitative analysis of temporal turnover in aquatic species assemblages across ecosystems. Ecology 91:508–517

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Larson CA, Passy SI (2013) Rates of species accumulation and taxonomic diversification during phototrophic biofilm development are controlled by both nutrient supply and current velocity. Appl Environ Microbiol 79:2054–2060

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Legendre P, Anderson MJ (1999) Distance-based Redundancy Analysis: testing multispecies responses in multifactorial ecological experiments. Ecol Monogr 69:1–24

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Legendre P, Fortin MJ (1989) Spatial pattern and ecological analysis. Vegetatio 80:107–138

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Legendre P, Legendre LF (2012) Numerical ecology. Elsevier, New York

  • Legendre P, Borcard D, Peres-Neto PR (2005) Analyzing beta diversity: partitioning the spatial variation of community composition data. Ecol Monogr 75:435–450

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Leibold MA, Holyoak M, Mouquet N, Amarasekare P, Chase JM, Hoopes MF, Holt RD, Shurin JB, Law R, Tilman D, Loreau M, Gonzalez A (2004) The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology. Ecol Lett 7:601–613

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lichstein JW (2007) Multiple regression on distance matrices: a multivariate spatial analysis tool. Plant Ecol 188:117–131

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lodi S, Velho LFM, Carvalho P, Bini LM (2014) Patterns of zooplankton population synchrony in a tropical reservoir. J Plankton Res 36:966–977

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lopes VG, Branco CWC, Kozlowsky-Suzuki B, Sousa-Filho IF, Souza LC, Bini LM (2017) Predicting temporal variation in zooplankton beta diversity is challenging. PLoS One 12:e0187499

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Marzolf GR (1990) Reservoirs as environments for zooplankton. In: Thornton K, Kimmel BL, Payne FE (eds) Reservoir limnology: ecological perspectives. Wiley, New York, pp 195–208

    Google Scholar 

  • McGill BJ, Dornelas M, Gotelli NJ, Magurran AE (2015) Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene. Trends Ecol Evol 30:104–113

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McKinney ML, Lockwood JL (1999) Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction. Trends Ecol Evol 14:450–453

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Oksanen J, Blanchet FG, Kindt R, Legendre P, Minchin PR, O’Hara RB, Simpson GL, Solymos P, Stevens MHH, Szoecs E, Wagner H (2017) vegan: Community Ecology Package. R package version 2.0-9

  • Olden JD, Poff NL (2003) Toward a mechanistic understanding and prediction of biotic homogenization. Am Nat 162:442–460

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Padial AA, Ceschin F, Declerck SAJ, De Meester L, Bonecker CC, Lansac-Tôha FA, Rodrigues L, Rodrigues LC, Train S, Velho LFM, Bini LM (2014) Dispersal ability determines the role of environmental, spatial and temporal drivers of metacommunity structure. PLoS One 9:e111227

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Pauly D (1995) Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries. Trends Ecol Evol 10:430

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Peres-Neto PR, Legendre P, Dray S, Borcard D (2006) Variation partitioning of species data matrices: estimation and comparison of fractions. Ecology 87:2614–2625

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Raup DM, Crick RE (1979) Measurement of faunal similarity in paleontology. J Paleontol 53:1213–1227

    Google Scholar 

  • R Core Team (2013) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org/

  • Santos JB, Silva LH, Branco CW, Huszar VL (2016) The roles of environmental conditions and geographical distances on the species turnover of the whole phytoplankton and zooplankton communities and their subsets in tropical reservoirs. Hydrobiologia 764:171–186

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Scheffer M (1990) Multiplicity of stable staes in freshwater systems. Hydrobiologia 200:475–486

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shimadzu H, Dornelas M, Magurran AE (2015) Measuring temporal turnover in ecological communities. Methods Ecol Evol 6:1384–1394

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Siqueira T, Roque F, Trivinho-Strixino S (2008) Phenological patterns of neotropical lotic chironomids: is emergence constrained by environmental factors? Austral Ecol 33:902–910

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smol JP et al (2005) Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of Arctic lakes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:4397–4402

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Soininen J, Heino J, Wang J (2018) A meta-analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 27:96–109

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Straile D, Jochimsen MC, Kümmerlin R (2013) The use of long-term monitoring data for studies of planktonic diversity: a cautionary tale from two Swiss lakes. Freshw Biol 58:1292–1301

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tisseuil C, Leprieur F, Grenouillet G, Vrac M, Lek S (2012) Projected impacts of climate change on spatio-temporal patterns of freshwater fish beta diversity: a deconstructing approach. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 21:1213–1222

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ulrich W, Almeida-Neto M (2012) On the meanings of nestedness: back to the basics. Ecography 35:865–871

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vellend M, Srivastava DS, Anderson KM, Brown CD, Jankowski JE, Kleynhans EJ, Kraft NJB, Letaw AD, Macdonald AAM, Maclean JE, Myers-Smith IH, Norris AR, Xue X (2014) Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities. Oikos 123:1420–1430

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zaccarelli N, Bolnick DI, Mancinelli G (2013) RInSp: an R package for the analysis of individual specialization in resource use. Methods Ecol Evol 4:1018–1023

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Light Energia S.A. for financial and logistic support in carrying out this study. We are also thankful to Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for the scholarship provided to Vanessa G. Lopes. Work by L. M. Bini have been continuously supported by CNPq Productivity Grants and is developed in the context of National Institutes for Science and Technology (INCT) in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, supported by MCTIC/CNPq (proc. 465610/2014-5) and FAPEG. Thanks to two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, GO, CEP 74690-900, Brazil

    Vanessa G. Lopes & Luis Mauricio Bini

  2. Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur 458, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 22290-240, Brazil

    Christina W. Castelo Branco

  3. Departamento de Ecologia e Recursos Marinhos, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur 458, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 22290-240, Brazil

    Betina Kozlowsky-Suzuki

Authors
  1. Vanessa G. Lopes
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Christina W. Castelo Branco
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Betina Kozlowsky-Suzuki
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Luis Mauricio Bini
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Vanessa G. Lopes.

Additional information

Handling Editor: Munemitsu Akasaka.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary material 1 (DOCX 478 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Lopes, V.G., Branco, C.W.C., Kozlowsky-Suzuki, B. et al. Zooplankton temporal beta diversity along the longitudinal axis of a tropical reservoir. Limnology 20, 121–130 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10201-018-0558-y

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10201-018-0558-y

Keywords

Search

Navigation