1. The ecological role of permanent ponds in Europe: a review of dietary linkages to terrestrial ecosystems via emerging insects
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Lena Fehlinger, Benjamin Misteli, Daniel Morant, Noël Juvigny-Khenafou, David Cunillera-Montcusí, Fernando Chaguaceda, Olivera Stamenković, Julie Fahy, Vojtěch Kolář, Dariusz Halabowski, Liam N. Nash, Ellinor Jakobsson, Veronica Nava, Pietro Tirozzi, Pablo Urrutia Cordero, Julien Mocq, Alba Camacho Santamans, Jose Manuel Zamora-Marín, Pierre Marle, Teofana Chonova, Luca Bonacina, Margaux Mathieu-Resuge, Ena Suarez, Stephen E. Osakpolor, Pablo Timoner, Vesela Evtimova, Darmina Nita, Bruno M. Carreira, Kálmán Tapolczai, Joana Martelo, Rémi Gerber, Valentin Dinu, Jorge Henriques, Géza B. Selmeczy, Biljana Rimcheska, Fehlinger, L, Misteli, B, Morant, D, Juvigny-Khenafou, N, Cunillera-Montcusí, D, Chaguaceda, F, Stamenković, O, Fahy, J, Kolář, V, Halabowski, D, Nash, L, Jakobsson, E, Nava, V, Tirozzi, P, Cordero, P, Mocq, J, Santamans, A, Zamora, J, Marle, P, Chonova, T, Bonacina, L, Mathieu-Resuge, M, Suarez, E, Osakpolor, S, Timoner, P, Evtimova, V, Nita, D, Carreira, B, Tapolczai, K, Martelo, J, Gerber, R, Dinu, V, Henriques, J, Selmeczy, G, Rimcheska, B, Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa, Danube University Krems, Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes] (ECOBIO), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut Ecologie et Environnement (INEE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), RiverLy - Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes (RiverLy), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Équipe 1 - Biodiversité et Adaptation dans les Hydrosystèmes (BAH), Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés (LEHNA), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques et Ecosystèmes Limniques (CARRTEL), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), and The EUROPONDS project was awarded as '3rd fresh project' (2020 - 2022) by the European Federation of Freshwater Sciences (EFFS), European Fresh and Young Researchers (EFYR), and representatives of the Fresh Blood for Fresh Water (FBFW). The funding is provided by the contributing EFFS societies: Association Française de Limnologie (AFL), Association of Austrian SIL Members (SIL Austria), Associazione Italiana di Oceanologia e Limnologia (AIOL), Asociación Ibérica de Limnología/Associação Ibérica de Limnologia (AIL), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie e.V. (DGL), Freshwater Biological Association (FBA), Hrvatsko Udruženje Slatkovodnih Ekologa (HUSEK), Magyar Hidrológiai Társaság (MHT), Polskie Towarzystwo Hydrobiologiczne (PTH), Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Hydrologie und Limnologie/Société Suisse d'Hydrologie et de Limnologie/Società Svizzera di Idrologia e Limnologia (SSHL).
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dietary subsidies ,dietary subsidie ,Ietary subsidies ,Emergence of insects ,Aquatic Science ,small waterbodie ,emergence of insects ,aquatic insect ,Small water bodies ,pondscape ,Aquatic insects ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,aquatic insects ,emergence of insect ,Water Science and Technology ,small water bodies ,biodiversity - Abstract
International audience; Permanent ponds are valuable freshwater systems and biodiversity hotspots. They provide diverse ecosystem services (ES), including water quality improvement and supply, food provisioning and biodiversity support. This is despite being under significant pressure from multiple anthropogenic stressors and the impacts of ongoing global change. However, ponds are largely overlooked in management plans and legislation, and ecological research has focused on large freshwater ecosystems, such as rivers or lakes. Protection of ponds is often insufficient or indirectly provided via associated habitats such as wetlands. This phenomenon is likely exacerbated due to lacking a full-scale understanding of the importance of ponds. In this review, we provided a detailed overview of permanent ponds across Europe, including their usages and the biodiversity they support. By discussing the concepts of pondscape and metacommunity theory, we highlighted the importance of connectivity among and between ponds and identified fluxes of emerging insects as another ES of ponds. Those insects are rich in essential nutrients such as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which are delivered through them to the terrestrial environment, however the extent and impact of this ES remains largely unexplored. Several potential stressors, especially related to ongoing global change, which influence pond diversity and integrity were discussed. To conclude this review, we provided our insights on future pond management. Adaptive measures, taking into account the pond system per se within the pondscape, were found to be the most promising to mitigate the loss of natural ponds and restore and conserve natural small water bodies as refuges and diversity hotspots in increasingly urbanized landscapes.
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- 2022
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