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The role of cladocerans in tracking long-term change in shallow lake trophic status

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Shallow lakes have been affected by a variety of human activities profoundly altering their ecological structure and function. Cladocerans have been used to track change resulting from a variety of drivers at a number of time scales. Aquatic macrophytes are well recognised as reflecting the ecological condition of a lake. Here, we compare the plant macrofossils with the sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages from 20 dated sediment cores. Co-correspondence analysis was used to determine the degree of commonality of change in community composition of the two biological groups through time. This analysis revealed very high levels of agreement in the nature and timing of change at all the sites examined with very high correlation coefficients between the axis 1 scores for macrofossils and cladocerans. Furthermore, at all sites a high proportion of the variance (min 20%, max 54%) in the macrofossil data was explained by the change in the cladoceran assemblage. Sub-fossil macrofossil and cladoceran assemblages, from at least from 1700 AD onwards, were examined in more detail at three sites: Ormesby Great Broad, Felbrigg Lake and Lake Søbygaard. There was very good accord in the main shifts of the cladoceran and macrofossil assemblages at all three sites. This may reflect the long-term shift in the principal focus of primary production from the benthic to the pelagic habitat. We suggest that the combination of their central position in the food-web and the presence of both pelagic and benthic taxa make cladocerans a strong candidate as the single best indicator of (palaeo) ecological condition related to changing trophic status and alteration in food-web structure in shallow lakes.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Karina Jensen for cladoceran identification for the Danish sites. We are thankful to many members of the ECRC and NERI for invaluable assistance in the field, in particular ‘big’ Ben Goldsmith, Daniel Hoare, Hannah Gray & James Shilland. We owe thanks to Neil Rose and Handong Yang for sediment core dating of UK and Northern Ireland sites. The various projects that make up this article were supported by The Broads Authority, The Environment and Heritage Service of Northern Ireland, Essex and Suffolk Water and The Countryside Council for Wales. We are grateful to the Catherine Duigan, Tristan Hatton-Ellis and Tony Waterman for their help. The project was supported by the EU-WISER and REFRESH projects, ‘CLEAR’ (a Villum Kann Rasmussen Centre of Excellence Project) and the Research Council for Nature and Universe (272-08-0406). TD’s contribution was supported by the Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship no. 255180 (PRECISE).

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    Thomas A. Davidson, Erik Jeppesen, Bent V. Odgaard & Susanne L. Amsinck

  2. Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, Pearson Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Thomas A. Davidson, Helen Bennion, Gina H. Clarke, Carl D. Sayer, David Morley, Ruth Rawcliffe, Jorge Salgado & Gavin L. Simpson

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Davidson, T.A., Bennion, H., Jeppesen, E. et al. The role of cladocerans in tracking long-term change in shallow lake trophic status. Hydrobiologia 676, 299–315 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0851-9

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