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Invertebrate beta diversity in permanent and temporary lentic water bodies: a meta-analytic assessment

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Water bodies vary widely in terms of environmental stability, and most of this variation is due to water permanence. Permanent systems are expected to have a more stable community since the organisms will not be subjected to the severe disturbances caused by droughts. Temporary habitats are stressed by frequent dry phases, which reset the system and trigger succession processes that can drive changes in species composition. Previous studies have found higher beta diversity among permanent than among temporary water bodies, whereas others have found the opposite. We conducted a meta-analysis to compare the beta diversity of aquatic invertebrates in permanent and temporary water bodies and assess whether there is a predominant relationship between beta diversity and water permanence. Our results revealed that the beta diversity of invertebrates did not differ between permanent and temporary habitats. Primary studies showed both patterns: some of them presented higher beta diversity in permanent than in temporary water bodies, whereas others presented the opposite, resulting in a net effect of no difference. The lack of a clear pattern may result from the interaction with multiple factors, including hydrological specificities of the study areas, scales, and dispersal abilities of the organisms investigated, as well as environmental and anthropogenic factors.

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AFQ thanks the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior- Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001 and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Mato Grosso – (FAPEMAT) (procs. 88887.190907/2018) for providing a student fellowship. ASM and LMB received research fellowships from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq procs. 307587/2017-7 and 308974/2020-4, respectively). This work was also developed in the context of the National Institutes for Science and Technology (INCT) in Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity Conservation, supported by MCTIC/CNPq (proc. 465610/2014-5) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás (FAPEG).

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Faustino de Queiroz, A.C., Anton-Pardo, M., Bini, L.M. et al. Invertebrate beta diversity in permanent and temporary lentic water bodies: a meta-analytic assessment. Hydrobiologia 849, 1273–1285 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04788-3

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