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The Impact of Climate Change on Freshwater Plankton Communities
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The Impact of Climate Change on Freshwater Plankton Communities

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 8736

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Piotr Dawidowicz

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Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
Interests: ecology of freshwater animals; phytoplankton–zooplankton–fish; climate change and zooplankton communities
Prof. Dr. Joanna Pijanowska

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Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
Interests: freshwater ecology; stress ecology; animal welfare; nature protection

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Earth’s surface temperature has ascended circa 0.9 °C since the nineteenth century, a change driven to a great extent by expanded carbon dioxide and other human-generated emissions into the atmosphere. It is now widely accepted that global warming is occurring, yet its present effects on zooplankton are poorely described, and future influence not easy to predict.

Freshwater plankton plays a fundamental role in the energy flow in aquatic systems, generating primary production (phytoplankton) and transferring energy to higher trophic levels (zooplankton). Therefore, the already observed and expected climate driven changes in plankton communities will dramatically influence the functionning of aquatic ecosystems.

Climate can directly affect physiology, behavior, and phenology of aquatic organisms (metabolic rate, oxygen uptake, food demands, mobility, life cycles, diapause) or act indirectly, altering physical properties of freshwater habitats (thermal stratification, including steepness of metalimnetic gradients, annual mixing regime, temperature-dependent solubility of O2, CO2, and others). Under these changing conditions, the character of biotic interactions (both intra- and intrespecific) will be rearranged. These effects may be enhanced by accompanying invasions of tropical species to temperate biota and posssible extinctions of domestic species.

Encouraged are contributions related to these and other aspects of climate change effects on freshwater plankton, from individual, through population and community to ecosystem level.

Prof. Dr. Piotr Dawidowicz
Prof. Dr. Joanna Pijanowska
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Temperature
  • Climate change
  • Freshwaters
  • Phytoplankton
  • Zooplankton
  • Physiology
  • Behavior
  • Phenology
  • Species invasions
  • Species extinctions
  • Thermal stratification
  • Water mixing
  • Physical properties of water

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Confusing Invader: Acanthocyclops americanus (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) and Its Biological, Anthropogenic and Climate-Dependent Mechanisms of Rapid Distribution in Eurasia
by Victor R. Alekseev
Water 2021, 13(10), 1423; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13101423 - 20 May 2021
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Acanthocyclops americanus (Marsh, 1892), first described in Wisconsin (USA), was discovered shortly thereafter in Great Britain and then widely distributed in the Palearctic. Its current range includes Europe, North Africa, western and central Siberia with the largest number of findings along the migration [...] Read more.
Acanthocyclops americanus (Marsh, 1892), first described in Wisconsin (USA), was discovered shortly thereafter in Great Britain and then widely distributed in the Palearctic. Its current range includes Europe, North Africa, western and central Siberia with the largest number of findings along the migration tracks of aquatic birds. Until recently, the northern border was the 60th parallel, but in the last decade it has expanded further into the Arctic. The most rapid expansion of its range in Europe happened in the middle of the last century, which was partially hidden from scientists due to a taxonomic mistake caused by the merging of its name with the native Palearctic form Acanthocyclops robustus (Sars, 1863). This problem was solved only recently with the help of molecular genetic tools, allowing a return to the study of biological, anthropogenic and possible climate-dependent mechanisms of the successful rapid invasion of A. americanus into the Palearctic. This paper, along with a detailed description of the life cycle parameters, adaptive behavior of nauplii and population dynamics in Acanthocyclops americanus compared to those in two other native Acanthocyclops species (Acanthocyclops vernalis and A. robustus), provides a possible history of the biological invasion of A. americanus in the Palearctic. Special attention is paid to the climate-dependent mechanism of the expansion of its range into the north and far east of Asia. The introduction of the A.americanus into small lakes in Great Britain resulted in the dominance of this species in the summer plankton. In many high-trophic reservoirs in Belgium, France and Spain, as well as in newly built reservoirs in Europe, this species has become the only representative of crustacean zooplankton in the warm season. This has led to a significant transformation of the trophic webs of these reservoirs. The rapid dispersal of the invasive species, which was demonstrated by A. americanus in the last century, can make it difficult, and in some cases even impossible to study the historical reasons for the formation of the fauna of other invertebrates associated with such events including the movement of continents and the evolution of the Tethys Sea. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Climate Change on Freshwater Plankton Communities)
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Seasonal Response of Daphnia pulex to Cyanobacterial Extracts at Different Temperatures in Valle de Bravo Reservoir (Mexico)
by S. Nandini, Carlos Sánchez-Zamora and S. S. S. Sarma
Water 2021, 13(4), 526; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13040526 - 18 Feb 2021
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Valle de Bravo reservoir supplies drinking water to 40% of Mexico City. Here we present data on the population growth and life-table demography of the cladoceran Daphnia pulex, cultured at temperatures of 20 °C and 25 °C and with different concentrations of [...] Read more.
Valle de Bravo reservoir supplies drinking water to 40% of Mexico City. Here we present data on the population growth and life-table demography of the cladoceran Daphnia pulex, cultured at temperatures of 20 °C and 25 °C and with different concentrations of the crude extracts from blooms of Microcystis aeruginosa, collected in January, and Woronichinia naegeliana, collected in September. We hypothesized that Daphnia pulex would be more sensitive at the higher temperature and to toxins from W. naegeliana as these blooms have been shown to be more toxic to rotifers. We extracted the toxins and conducted acute toxicity tests at eight concentrations of microcystins at 20 °C. The LC50 was 26.8 µg/L and 11.5 µg/L, respectively, for Microcystis and Woronichinia samples. The chronic toxicity tests included population growth and life-table demography studies at 5 and 10% of the LC50 concentration, at 20 °C and 25 °C. Four replicates for each of the three treatments, which consisted of treatments with low and high cyanotoxin levels and a control without cyanotoxins, were set up. The population growth rate ranged from 0.18 to 0.42 d−1 on the extracts from M. aeruginosa (January) and from 0.2 to 0.31 on extracts from W. naegeliana. Daphnia, being better adapted to cooler temperatures, was more adversely affected at 25 °C than 20 °C. The adverse effect of cyanobacterial extracts was greater from Microcystis than Woronichinia blooms. The tolerance of Daphnia pulex to cyanotoxins depends on the bloom-forming species and the temperature. Full article
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Rotifers in Heated Konin Lakes—A Review of Long-Term Observations
by Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin, Andrzej Hutorowicz, Andrzej Kapusta, Konrad Stawecki, Jacek Tunowski and Bogusław Zdanowski
Water 2020, 12(6), 1660; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12061660 - 10 Jun 2020
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The Konin lakes, heated by power stations and invaded by alien organisms, are a natural laboratory in which we can study the impact of climate change on the native communities of aquatic organisms. The aim of our study was to assess the impact [...] Read more.
The Konin lakes, heated by power stations and invaded by alien organisms, are a natural laboratory in which we can study the impact of climate change on the native communities of aquatic organisms. The aim of our study was to assess the impact of water heating and the occupation of the littoral zone of the lake by invasive species Vallisneria spiralis on changes in the species structure of rotifer communities of plankton, epiphyton and psammon. The archival material was used from the years: 1970–1975, 1978 and 1983, and compared with the results of studies conducted in Licheń and Ślesin Lakes in the years 2010–2011 and 2017–2018. It has been shown that the heating of waters of the studied lakes, combined with the shortening of their retention time, as well as the invasions of alien species, have caused significant changes in the taxonomic and trophic structure of plankton rotifers. In inhabiting Vallisneria bed epiphytic rotifer communities, the share of alien species did not increase, but relatively high densities of uncommon sessile species still persist. Psammon communities in the lakes are dominated by monogonont species relatively common in this habitat in nonheated lakes, but they are nearly devoid of bdelloids, which are abundant in psammon of Masurian lakes. Full article
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