DO ZOOPLANKTON DIVERSITY-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS DERIVED FROM SPACE-FOR-TIME-SUBSTITUTION SURVEYS ACTUALLY REPRESENT ANY LAKES?

Space-For-Time-Substitution (SFTS) surveys are used to describe zooplankton community structure, assess lake health, and forecast lake responses to environmental change. SFTS surveys combine single-point sampling from many lakes to evaluate zooplankton community structure and dynamics (e.g., abundance, diversity) and their responses to ecogeographical gradients in key environmental drivers (e.g., temperature, salinity), instead of tracking such responses in individual lakes. However, the reliability and reproducibility of estimating temporal dynamics from models of SFTS survey data have yet to be tested against observed community dynamics within lakes distributed worldwide. We use a recently compiled global dataset (292 lakes, 38 countries, 6 continents) of lake zooplankton time series to estimate the relationship between zooplankton diversity and potential environmental drivers using simulated SFTS surveys. We then apply the results to lakes with long-term time series to compare relationships derived from SFTS surveys with the historical dynamics of individual lakes. We expect that zooplankton dynamics in lakes from less variable thermal regions (i.e., low and high latitudes) will not be well represented by temperature relationships derived from SFTS surveys. Testing biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships and their drivers requires adequate temporally and spatially resolved data. We provide a global perspective on the design of monitoring programs that include zooplankton and examine the reliability of zooplankton biodiversity patterns observed in SFTS surveys.

Primary Presenter: Jason Stockwell, University of Vermont (jason.stockwell@uvm.edu)

Authors:

Jason Stockwell, University of Vermont  (jason.stockwell@uvm.edu)

Celia Symons, University of California - Irvine  (csymons@uci.edu)

Stephanie Figary, University of Vermont  (stephanie.figary@uvm.edu)

Javier Alcocer, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  (jalcocerdurand@gmail.com)

María Belén Alfonso, Kyushu University  (mariabelenalfonso@gmail.com)

Orlane Anneville, Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (INRAE)  (orlane.anneville@inrae.fr)

Ana Antão-Geraldes, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança  (geraldes@ipb.pt)

Meryem Beklioğlu, Middle East Technical University  (meryem@metu.edu.tr)

Jessica Beyer, University of Oklahoma  (jessica.e.beyer@gmail.com)

Kätlin Blank, Estonian University of Life Sciences  (katlin.blank@emu.ee)

Rosalie Bruel, Office français de la biodiversité (OFB)  (rosaliebruel@gmail.com)

Sarah Burnet, University of Idaho; US Army Corps of Engineers  (shburnet@gmail.com)

Rossana Caroni, CNR Water Research Institute  (rossana.caroni@irsa.cnr.it)

Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada  (sudeep@unr.edu)

Kirsten Christoffersen, University of Copenhagen  (kchristoffersen@bio.ku.dk)

Alicia Cortés, University of California - Davis  (alicortes@ucdavis.edu)

Maria Cristina Crispim, Federal University of Paraíba  (ccrispim@hotmail.com)

Warren Currie, Fisheries and Oceans Canada  (warren.currie@dfo-mpo.gc.ca)

Elvira de Eyto, Marine Institute  (elvira.deeyto@marine.ie)

Curtis DeGasperi, King County Water and Land Resources Division  (Curtis.DeGasperi@kingcounty.gov)

Nadia Diovisalvi, Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (UNSAM-CONICET)  (nadiadiovisalvi@intech.gov.ar)

Renata Dondajewska-Pielka, Adam Mickiewicz University  (gawronek@amu.edu.pl)

Jonathan Doubek, Lake Superior State University  (jdoubek@lssu.edu)

Gaël Dur, Shizuoka University  (dur.gael@shizuoka.ac.jp)

Zeynep Ersoy, Universitat de Barcelona  (zzeynepersoy@gmail.com)

Rocío Fernández, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  (biol.fernandez@gmail.com)

María Soledad Fontanarrosa, Instituto Multidisciplinario sobre Ecosistemas y Desarrollo Sustentable (UNCPBA-CICPBA), CONICET  (solefontanarrosa@gmail.com)

Gideon Gal, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory  (gal@ocean.org.il)

Jorge García-Girón, Universidad de León; University of Oulu  (jogarg@unileon.es)

Kemal Ali Ger, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte  (aligerger@gmail.com)

Ryszard Goldyn, Adam Mickiewicz University  (ryszard.goldyn@amu.edu.pl)

Fen Guo, Guangdong University of Technology  (guofenstephanie@gmail.com)

K. David Hambright, University of Oklahoma  (dhambright@ou.edu)

Somia Hamil, Higher Normal School of Kouba  (dj.soumia@hotmail.fr)

Erik Jeppesen, Aarhus University  (ej@ecos.au.dk)

Martin J. Kainz, WasserCluster Lunz - Biologische Station  (Martin.Kainz@donau-uni.ac.at)

Katarzyna Kowalczewska-Madura, Adam Mickiewicz University  (madura@amu.edu.pl)

Natalia Kuczyńska-Kippen, Adam Mickiewicz University  (nkippen@amu.edu.pl)

Alo Laas, Estonian University of Life Sciences  (Alo.Laas@emu.ee)

Barbara Leoni, University of Milan-Bicocca  (barbara.leoni@unimib.it)

Mercedes López-Vázquez, Universidad de León  (mercedes.lopez@unileon.es)

Marina Manca, CNR Water Research Institute  (marina.manca@irsa.cnr.it)

Shin-Ichiro Matsuzaki, National Institute for Environmental Studies  (matsuzakiss@nies.go.jp)

Blake Matthews, Eawag  (Blake.Matthews@eawag.ch)

Ewa Merz, University of California – San Diego  (e2merz@ucsd.edu)

Jannicke Moe, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)  (jmo@niva.no)

Manuel Muñoz-Colmenares, University of Valencia  (munozbiol@gmail.com)

Jens Nejstgaard, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)  (nejstgaard@igb-berlin.de)

Ulrike Obertegger, Fondazione Edmund Mach  (ulrike.obertegger@fmach.it)

Luis Oseguera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  (loseguera.72@gmail.com)

Michael Paterson, International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Area  (mpaterson@iisd-ela.org)

Robert Piscia, CNR Water Research Institute  (roberta.piscia@irsa.cnr.it)

Florencia Rojas Molina, Instituto Nacional de Limnología (CONICET-UNL)  (florojasm@yahoo.com.ar)

Lars Rudstam, Cornell University  (rudstam@cornell.edu)

James Rusak, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks; Queen’s University  (jim.rusak@ontario.ca)

Olga Rusanovskaya, Irkutsk State University  (rusanovskaya-o.o@mail.ru)

Nico Salmaso, Fondazione Edmund Mach  (nico.salmaso@fmach.it)

Jouko Sarvala, University of Turku  (jouko.sarvala@utu.fi)

Jaromír Seďa, Institute of Hydrobiology  (seda@hbu.cas.cz)

Eugene Silow, Irkutsk State University  (eugenesilow@gmail.com)

Janne Soininen, University of Helsinki  (janne.soininen@helsinki.fi)

Barbara Tartarotti, University of Innsbruck  (barbara.tartarotti@uibk.ac.at)

Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Middle East Technical University; Çankırı Karatekin University  (unyazgan@gmail.com)

Stephen Thackeray, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology  (sjtr@ceh.ac.uk)

Maxim Timofeyev, Irkutsk State University  (m.a.timofeyev@gmail.com)

Horacio Zagarese, Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (UNSAM-CONICET)  (zagarese@intech.gov.ar)

Petr Znachor, Institute of Hydrobiology  (znachy@gmail.com)