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Does flooding mitigation measures affect cladoceran and copepod communities in floodplain water bodies?

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We investigated the relative importance of flood defenses and other environmental variables for the cladoceran and copepod communities in floodplain water bodies in Southeastern Norway. The water bodies covered gradients of size, distance to the river and water chemistry, and half of them were located behind flood defenses. The effects of environmental variables on the communities were analyzed using redundancy analysis. The set of environmental variables accounted for more of the explained variation in the cladoceran community than in the copepod community. Water quality was much more important than flooding-related variables for both communities. Although cladoceran species richness was slightly higher in water bodies outside flood defenses, total nitrogen, total organic carbon (TOC), and water body area were the most important factors for the cladocerans. Macrophyte coverage was the most important variable for both species richness and community structure of copepods. Although our results show that water quality and spatial/structural variables are more important than flood defenses in structuring the communities, the effect of TOC on the cladoceran community could likely be mediated through effects of flood defense on TOC. Prospects for a continued anthropogenic pressure on river floodplains raise concern for the future of these unique ecosystems.

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Acknowledgments

This study was partly financed by the strategic institute program project “Municipalities addressing climate change,” funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The study was also supported by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Erik Framstad, Odd Terje Sandlund, Adam Petrusek, and two anonymous reviewers provided valuable suggestions and comments on the manuscript.

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Jensen, T.C., Walseng, B. & Museth, J. Does flooding mitigation measures affect cladoceran and copepod communities in floodplain water bodies?. Hydrobiologia 798, 45–60 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2350-x

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