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Multiple anthropogenic pressures and local environmental gradients in ponds governing the taxonomic and functional diversity of epiphytic macroinvertebrates

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Anthropogenic activities alter community composition, diversity and functioning of macroinvertebrate communities in freshwater ecosystems. Especially threatened are pond ecosystems, given their small size, low protection, and typically high connection to adjacent agricultural lands and urban areas. Most of the existing research, however, focuses on benthic macroinvertebrates while the evidence for epiphytic macroinvertebrates is strongly limited. Here we tested the effects of different anthropogenic activities on abundance, taxonomic and functional diversity, and composition of epiphytic macroinvertebrates in ponds along the gradients of local environmental factors. We found that all types of anthropogenic activities had negative impact on abundance, and on both taxonomic and functional diversity, and altered taxonomic and functional composition of epiphytic macroinvertebrates. Among the local environmental factors, macrophyte growth forms governed diversity and community composition, having positive effects on the taxonomic diversity, but allowing only a narrow spectrum of macroinvertebrate functional traits to persist on a single growth form of macrophytes. Fish predation was an important determinant of functional diversity of epiphytic macroinvertebrates. Our findings suggest that management strategies aimed to maintain high levels of biodiversity in ponds should be directed towards reducing the level of anthropogenic pressure, while ensuring the presence of distinct macrophyte growth forms in ponds.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Serbian Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation (Agreement number 451-03-47/2023-01/200124) and a bilateral cooperation scientific project between Serbia and Croatia “Trophic connections of freshwater ichthyofauna: fish diet in sustainable aquaculture” funded by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development and Croatian Ministry of Science and Education. We thank the students that helped in the field and laboratory work. We are especially grateful to Britta Tietjen and the Theoretical Ecology Group (Freie Universität Berlin) for discussions which improved this work, and to Dr. Dragana Jenačković Gocić from the Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Niš for helping in the identification of macrophyte species. We thank Sonja Dix (UK) for the final English corrections.

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Funding was provided by Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja and Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja.

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  1. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000, Niš, Serbia

    Olivera Stamenković, Milica Stojković Piperac & Djuradj Milošević

  2. Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 8a, 31000, Osijek, Croatia

    Dubravka Čerba & Barbara Vlaičević

  3. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Dušanka Cvijanović

  4. Theoretical Ecology, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 2/4, Gartenhaus, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Alica Gronau & Oksana Buzhdygan

  5. Department of Physical Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Research Institute, Nábrežie arm. gen. L. Svobodu 5, 812 49, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Dubravka Čerba

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OS, MSP, DM, DČ, and OYB designed the study and developed the analytical procedure. All authors contributed the data. DC provided the map of the study areas. OYB performed the statistical analyses. OS wrote the original draft. All authors contributed to the reviewing and editing of the manuscript and approved the final version.

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Stamenković, O., Stojković Piperac, M., Milošević, D. et al. Multiple anthropogenic pressures and local environmental gradients in ponds governing the taxonomic and functional diversity of epiphytic macroinvertebrates. Hydrobiologia 851, 45–65 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05311-6

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