Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Biodiversity and distributions of freshwater mollusks in relation to chemical and physical factors in the thermokarst lakes of the Gydan Peninsula, Russia

  • FRESHWATER MOLLUSCS
  • Published:
Hydrobiologia Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Knowledge of factors affecting the diversity of benthic invertebrates is very important for biodiversity conservation, for monitoring, restoring and maintaining aquatic ecosystems. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the diversity and distribution of freshwater mollusks related to environmental factors. Twelve species of freshwater mollusks were identified during a survey of 15 thermokarst lakes in the Gydan Peninsula, Russia. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was used to study the relationships between environmental variables and species abundance. The first CCA axis correlated with the content of macro-ions, mainly Mg2+, Na+, Cl−, substrate types, and plant remnants. Along the second CCA axis stations were ordered by depth and the presence of mosses. We found that the type of substrate, depth, abundance of mosses and hydrochemical parameters play an important role in the distribution of the mollusks in thermokarst lakes. These results expand our understanding of mollusks ecology in thermokarst lakes, and identify environmental stressors important for the performance of abiotic control.

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

  • Ashworth, A. C. & R. C. Preece, 2003. The first freshwater molluscs from Antarctica. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69: 89–92.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anisimov, O.A., D.G. Vaughan, T.V. Callaghan, C. Furgal, H. Marchant, T.D. Prowse, H. Vilhjálmsson & J.E. Walsh, 2007. Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic). In Parry, M.L. O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden & C.E. Hanson (eds), Climate Change 2007: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 653-685.

  • Beaty, S. R., K. Fortino & A. E. Hershey, 2006. Distribution and growth of benthic macroinvertebrates among different patch types of the littoral zones of two arctic lakes. Freshwater Biology 51: 2347–2361.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bespalaya, Y., 2015. Molluscan fauna of an Arctic lake is dominated by a cosmopolitan Pisidium species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 81: 294–298.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bespalaya, Y., I. Bolotov, O. Aksenova, A. Kondakov, V. Spitsyn, Y. Kogut & S. Sokolova, 2017. Two Pisidium species inhabit freshwater lakes of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago: the first molecular evidence. Polar Biology 40: 2119–2126.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bespalaya, Y., O. Aksenova & N. Zubriy, 2018. Molluscan fauna of the lower reaches of the Syoyakha River (Yamal Peninsula). Arctic Environmental Research 18: 76–81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bespalaya, Y., J. Joyner-Matos, I. Bolotov, O. Aksenova, M. Gofarov, S. Sokolova, A. Shevchenko, O. Travina, N. Zubry, A. Aksenov, A. Kosheleva & D. Ovchinnikov, 2019a. Reproductive ecology of Pisidium casertanum (Poli, 1791) (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) in Arctic lakes. Journal of Molluscan Studies 85: 11–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bespalaya, Yu. V., O. V. Aksenova, A. S. Aksenov, S. E. Sokolova, A. R. Shevchenko, O. V. Travina & A. V. Kropotin, 2019b. Reproductive features of Pisidium casertanum (Poli, 1791) (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) in relict lakes of Bolshezemelskaya Tundra. Arctic Environmental Research 19: 113–122.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bogatov, V. V. & L. A. Prozorova, 2017. Taxonomy and diversity of freshwater bivalves (Bivalvia) of China (on the basis of analysis catalog Heat Zhuang 2013). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 96(2): 153–171. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • Bódis, E., J. Nosek, N. Oertel, B. Tóth, E. Hornung & R. Sousa, 2011. Spatial distribution of bivalves in relation to environmental conditions (middle Danube catchment, Hungary). Community Ecology 12: 210–219.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bößneck, U., C. Clewing & C. Albrecht, 2016. Exploring high-mountain limnic faunas: discovery of a novel endemic bivalve species (Sphaeriidae: Pisidium) in the Nepal Himalayas. Invertebrate Systematics 30: 588–597.

    Google Scholar 

  • Burmakin, E., 1936. Food resources Gydanskogo Bay and the nearby water bodies. Trudi Nauchno-Issledovatelskogo Instituta Polyarnogo Zemledeliya Zhivotnovodstva I Promislovogo Khozyaistva. Series Promislovoe Khozyaustvo 15: 159–177. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • Clewing, C., U. Bössneck, P. V. Oheimb & C. Albrecht, 2013. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of a high mountain bivalve fauna: the Sphaeriidae of the Tibetan Plateau. Malacologia 56: 231–252.

    Google Scholar 

  • Coulson, S. J. & N. G. Midgley, 2012. The role of glacier mice in the invertebrate colonisation of glacial surfaces: the moss balls of the Falljökull, Iceland. Polar Biology 35: 1651.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dillon, R. T., 2000. The ecology of freshwater molluscs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dolgin, V. N., 2002. The latitudinal-zonal distribution of freshwater mollusks and ecological-biogeographical zonation of Northern Siberia, Vestnik Tomskogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta. Estestvennie i Tochnie Nauki 2(30): 40–46. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • Dolgin, V. & B. Johansen, 1973. Freshwater mollusks of the Gydan Peninsula. Biological Sciences 9: 16–19. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • Dolgin, V. N., 2001. Freshwater mollusks of the subarctic and arctic regions of Siberia: DSc (biology) dissertation. Tomsk, 2001. [in Russian]

  • Drozdov, V. N., 1967. Notes about the fauna of molluscs of the Ob Polar Region. Voprosi gigieni. Omsk, 42–45. [in Russian]

  • Gargomini, O., V. Prie, J.-M. Bichain, X. Cucherat & B. Fontaine, 2011. Liste de référence annotée des mollusques continentaux de France. MalaCo 11: 307–382.

    Google Scholar 

  • Guralnick, R. P., 2005. Combined molecular and morphological approaches to documenting regional biodiversity and ecological patterns in problematic taxa: a case study in the bivalve group Cyclocalyx (Sphaeriidae, Bivalvia) from western North America. Zoologica Scripta 3: 469–482.

    Google Scholar 

  • Glöer, P. & C. Meier-Brook, 2003. Süsswassermollusken. Ein Bestimmungschlüssel für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 13 Auflage. Deutscher Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtun, Hamburg

  • Graf, D. L., 2013. Patterns of freshwater bivalve global diversity and the state of phylogenetic studies on the Unionoidae, Sphaeriidae, and Cyrenidae. American Malacological Bulletin 31: 135–153.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gudovskikh, Yu V, T. L. Egoshina & L. S. Savintseva, 2016. The study of biota of the proposed protected area « Yuribeyskiy » (Gydanskiy Peninsula) Vestnik Udmurtskogo Universiteta. Biologiya Nauki o Zemle 26(1): 15–28. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • Hall, T. A., 1999. BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symp Ser 41: 95–98.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hammer, O., D.A.T. Harper & P.D. Ryan, 2001. PAST: paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica, 4: art. 4.

  • Heino, J., 2000. Lentic macroinvertebrate assemblage structure along gradients in spatial heterogeneity, habitat size and water chemistry. Hydrobiologia 418: 229–242.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heino, J., 2005. Functional biodiversity of macroinvertebrate assemblages along major ecological gradients of boreal headwater streams. Freshwater Biology 50: 1578–1587.

    Google Scholar 

  • Horsák, M. & M. Hájek, 2003. Composition and species richness of mollusc communities in relation to vegetation and water chemistry in the Western Carpathian spring fens: the poor-rich gradient. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69: 349–357.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kalyakin, V. N., F. A. Romanenko, A. V. Molochaev, E. V. Rogacheva & E. E. Syroechkovsky, 2000. Gydansky Nature Reserve. Reserves of Russia. Nature Reserves of Siberia. II. Logata, Moscow.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kling, G. W., 2009. Lakes of the Arctic. In Likens, G. E. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. Elsevier, Oxford: 577–588.

    Google Scholar 

  • Korniushin, A. V., 1996. Bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pisidioideain the Palaearctic region: fauna, systematics, phylogeny. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • Korniushin, A. V., 2001. Taxonomic revision of the genus Sphaerium sensu lato (Bivalvia Sphaeriidae) in the Palaearctic Region, with some notes on the North American species. Arch Molluskenkd 129: 77–122.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lee, T. & D. Ó. Foighil, 2003. Phylogenetic structure of the Sphaeriinae, a global clade of freshwater bivalve molluscs, inferred from nuclear (ITS-1) and mitochondrial (16S) ribosomal gene sequences. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 245–260.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lorencová, E. & M. Horsák, 2019. Environmental drivers of mollusc assemblage diversity in a system of lowland lentic habitats. Hydrobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-3940-9.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moore, J. S., 1978. Some factors influencing the diversity and species composition of benthic invertebrate communities in twenty Arctic and Subarctic Lakes. International Review of Hydrobiology 63: 757–771.

    Google Scholar 

  • Palumbi, S. R., 1996. Nucleic acids II: the polymerase chain reaction. In Hillis, D. M., C. Moritz & B. K. Mable (eds), Molecular systematics. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA: 205–247.

    Google Scholar 

  • Popov, P. A., 2011. Characteristics of ichthyofauna reservoirs of the Gdansky Peninsula. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Biology 3: 127–138.

    Google Scholar 

  • Raddum, G. G. & A. Fjellheim, 2002. Species composition of freshwater invertebrates in relation to chemical and physical factors in high mountains in southwestern Norway. Water Air and Soil Pollution. Focus 2: 311–328.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch & T. Maniatis, 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Samchyshyna, L., L. A. Hansson & K. Christoffersen, 2008. Patterns in the distribution of Arctic freshwater zooplankton related to glaciation history. Polar Biology 31: 1427–1435.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sisko, R. K., 1977. Yamalo-Gydanskaya oblast (physiographic characteristics). Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • Sousa, R., P. Morais, C. Antunes & L. Guilhermino, 2008. Factors affecting Pisidium amnicum (Müller, 1774; Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) distribution in the River Minho Estuary: consequences for its conservation. Estuaries and Coasts 31: 1198–1207.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sousa, R., M. Ilarri, A. T. Souza, C. Antunes & L. Guilhermino, 2011. Rapid decline of the greater European peaclam at the periphery of its distribution. International Journal of Limnology 47: 211–219.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stolbov, V. A., O. A. Aleshina, A. A. Prokin & D. A. Allayarov, 2017. The study of the hydrochemical composition, zooplankton and macrozoobenthos of some floodplain lakes of the typical tundra of the Gydan Peninsula. Water: Chemistry and Ecology 8: 11–18. [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  • ter Braak, C.J.F.& P. Šmilauer, 2002. CANOCO reference manual and CanoDraw for Windows user’s guide: software for canonical community ordination (version 4.5). Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, NY.

  • Vincent, W. F. & J. Laybourn-Parry, 2008. Polar Lakes and Rivers: Limnology of Arctic and Antarctic Aquatic Ecosystems. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vuori, K. M., H. Luotonen & P. Liljaniemi, 1999. Benthic macroinvertebrates and aquatic mosses in pristine streams of the Tolvajärvi region, Russian Karelia. Boreal Environment Research 4: 187–200.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Wrona, F. J., T. D. Prowse, J. Reist, R. Beamish, J. J. Gibson, J. Hobbie, E. Jeppesen, J. King, G. Koeck, A. Korhola, L. Lévesque, R. Macdonald, M. Power, V. Skvortsov & W. Vincent, 2005. Freshwater ecosystems and fisheries. In Symon, C., L. Arris & B. Heal (eds), Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, ACIA. Cambridge University Press, New York: 353–452.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wrona, F. J., J. D. Reist, P.-A. Amundsen, P. A. Chambers, K. Christoffersen, J. M. Culp, P. D. di Cenzo, L. Forsström, J. Hammar, R. K. Heikkinen, J. Heino, K. K. Kahilainen, H. Lehtonen, J. Lento, L. Lesack, M. Luoto, D. J. Marcogliese, P. Marsh, P. A. Moquin, T. Mustonen, M. Power, T. D. Prowse, M. Rautio, H. K. Swanson, M. Thompson, H. Toivonen, V. Vasiliev, R. Virkkala & S. Zavalko, 2013. Freshwater ecosystems. Chapter 13. In Meltofte, H. (ed.), Arctic Biodiversity Assessment: Status and trends in Arctic biodiversity. Narayana Press, Akureyri: 443–485.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors express their gratitude to two anonymous reviewers, whose detailed consideration of the manuscript has significantly improved the work. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation supported the study of biodiversity of freshwater bivalves (Project No. AAAA-A17-117033010132-2), the study of environmental parameters was supported by the program of Presidium Ural Branch of RAS (No. AAAA-A17-117122890059-1), Russian Science Foundation supported the molecular analyses of mollusks (No. 19-14-00066). The Russian Foundation for Basic Research supported the study of the distribution of freshwater mollusks depending on environmental factors (No. 20-04-00361) and the study of biodiversity of freshwater gastropods (No. 17-44-290016 r_a).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation, 163000

    Yulia V. Bespalaya, Olga V. Aksenova, Svetlana E. Sokolova, Alexander R. Shevchenko, Alena A. Tomilova & Natalia A. Zubrii

  2. Laboratory of Macroecology & Biogeography of Invertebrates, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb. 7-9, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, 199034

    Yulia V. Bespalaya & Olga V. Aksenova

Authors
  1. Yulia V. Bespalaya
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Olga V. Aksenova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Svetlana E. Sokolova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Alexander R. Shevchenko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Alena A. Tomilova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Natalia A. Zubrii
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Yulia V. Bespalaya.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Guest editors: Manuel P. M. Lopes-Lima, Nicoletta Riccardi, Maria Urbanska & Ronaldo G. Sousa / Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Molluscs

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary material 1 (DOCX 15 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Bespalaya, Y.V., Aksenova, O.V., Sokolova, S.E. et al. Biodiversity and distributions of freshwater mollusks in relation to chemical and physical factors in the thermokarst lakes of the Gydan Peninsula, Russia. Hydrobiologia 848, 3031–3044 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04227-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04227-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation