Tracking long-term shifts in non-native freshwater macroinvertebrates across three European countries

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167402" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167402</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tracking long-term shifts in non-native freshwater macroinvertebrates across three European countries

Original language description

Non-native species introductions have been acknowledged as one of the main drivers of freshwater biodiversity decline worldwide, compromising provided ecosystem services and functioning. Despite growing introduction numbers of non-native species, their impacts in conjunction with anthropogenic stressors remain poorly docu-mented. To fill this gap, we studied temporal changes in alpha (local scale) and gamma (regional scale), as well as beta (ratio between gamma and alpha) diversity of non-native freshwater macroinvertebrate species in three European countries (the Netherlands, England and Hungary) using long-term time series data of up to 17 years (2003-2019). We further calculated four ecological and four biological trait metrics to identify changes in trait occurrences over time. We found that alpha and gamma diversities of non-native species were increasing across all countries whereas beta diversity remained stable. We did not identify any significant changes in any trait metric over time, while the predictors tested (land use, climatic predictors, site-specific factor) were similar across countries (e.g., site characteristics or climatic predictors on non-native species trends). Additionally, we projected trends of alpha, beta, and gamma diversity and trait metrics until 2040, which indicated that non-native species will decline across all countries to lower levels except in England for gamma diversity and the Netherlands for alpha diversity where an increase was observed. Thus, our findings indicate shifts in non-native freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity at both local and regional scales in response to the various growing anthropogenic pressures. Our findings underscore the continuous dynamics of non-native species distribution, with the diversity of individual communities and overall landscapes witnessing changes. However, the differentiation in species composition between communities remains unaltered. This could have profound implications for conservation strategies and ecological management in the face of continuously changing biodiversity patterns.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Science of the Total Environment

ISSN

0048-9697

e-ISSN

1879-1026

Volume of the periodical

906

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001087170500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85172926778