Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages

Abstract Understanding long‐term changes in fish diversity and community assembly rules is crucial for freshwater conservation. Growing evidence indicates that studying functional and phylogenetic diversity beyond purely taxonomic considerations can provide different but complementary information on...

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Main Authors: Zhice Liang, Chuanbo Guo, Rodolphe Elie Gozlan, Young‐Seuk Park, Feng Wen, Chenyi Kuang, Yuxing Ma, Jiashou Liu, Donald A. Jackson
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4760
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author Zhice Liang
Chuanbo Guo
Rodolphe Elie Gozlan
Young‐Seuk Park
Feng Wen
Chenyi Kuang
Yuxing Ma
Jiashou Liu
Donald A. Jackson
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Chuanbo Guo
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Young‐Seuk Park
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Chenyi Kuang
Yuxing Ma
Jiashou Liu
Donald A. Jackson
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description Abstract Understanding long‐term changes in fish diversity and community assembly rules is crucial for freshwater conservation. Growing evidence indicates that studying functional and phylogenetic diversity beyond purely taxonomic considerations can provide different but complementary information on community assembly. Here, the taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic β‐diversity of fish communities, as well as the community assembly mechanisms, were explored in five impounded lakes of the China's South‐to‐North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) from the 1980s to the 2010s. We found that (1) there was an obvious trend of species homogenization in the five impounded lakes, but the long‐term transformations of different dimensional β‐diversity were divergent; (2) water quality and land use variables have greater impacts on multidimensional β‐diversity; and (3) community assembly process in taxonomic and functional dimensions were dominated by random process in both periods, while shifting from limiting similarity to habitat filtering in the phylogenetic dimension. These results highlight that functional and phylogenetic diversity are important additional ecological indices for assessing the patterns of fish diversity in lakes.
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spelling doaj.art-85fec6c6c5a2455ea7c74494b17ad4002024-03-21T02:06:54ZengWileyEcosphere2150-89252024-02-01152n/an/a10.1002/ecs2.4760Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblagesZhice Liang0Chuanbo Guo1Rodolphe Elie Gozlan2Young‐Seuk Park3Feng Wen4Chenyi Kuang5Yuxing Ma6Jiashou Liu7Donald A. Jackson8State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Hubei ChinaState Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Hubei ChinaISEM, CNRS, IRD, EPHE Université de Montpellier Montpellier FranceKyung Hee University Seoul Republic of KoreaState Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Hubei ChinaState Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Hubei ChinaState Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Hubei ChinaState Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Hubei ChinaDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario CanadaAbstract Understanding long‐term changes in fish diversity and community assembly rules is crucial for freshwater conservation. Growing evidence indicates that studying functional and phylogenetic diversity beyond purely taxonomic considerations can provide different but complementary information on community assembly. Here, the taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic β‐diversity of fish communities, as well as the community assembly mechanisms, were explored in five impounded lakes of the China's South‐to‐North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) from the 1980s to the 2010s. We found that (1) there was an obvious trend of species homogenization in the five impounded lakes, but the long‐term transformations of different dimensional β‐diversity were divergent; (2) water quality and land use variables have greater impacts on multidimensional β‐diversity; and (3) community assembly process in taxonomic and functional dimensions were dominated by random process in both periods, while shifting from limiting similarity to habitat filtering in the phylogenetic dimension. These results highlight that functional and phylogenetic diversity are important additional ecological indices for assessing the patterns of fish diversity in lakes.https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4760biodiversity conservationcommunity assemblyenvironment variablesmultidimensional β‐diversitytemporal shifts
spellingShingle Zhice Liang
Chuanbo Guo
Rodolphe Elie Gozlan
Young‐Seuk Park
Feng Wen
Chenyi Kuang
Yuxing Ma
Jiashou Liu
Donald A. Jackson
Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages
Ecosphere
biodiversity conservation
community assembly
environment variables
multidimensional β‐diversity
temporal shifts
title Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages
title_full Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages
title_fullStr Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages
title_full_unstemmed Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages
title_short Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages
title_sort temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages
topic biodiversity conservation
community assembly
environment variables
multidimensional β‐diversity
temporal shifts
url https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4760
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