Influences of climate and nutrient enrichment on the multiple trophic levels of Turkish shallow lakes

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2020-04-01

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Beklioğlu, Meryem
Levi, Eti E.
Erdogan, Seyda
Ozen, Arda
Filiz, Nur
Bezirci, Gizem
Cakiroglu, Ayse Idil
Tavsanoglu, U. Nihan
Gökçe, Didem
Demir, Nilsun
Ozulug, Mufit
Duran, Mustafa
Özkan, Korhan
Jeppesen, Erik

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Climate warming threatens the structure and function of shallow lakes, not least those in the Mediterranean climate. We used a space-for-time substitution approach to assess the response of trophic and community structures as well as the richness and evenness of multiple trophic levels to temperature, hydrological, and nutrient constraints. We selected 41 lakes covering wide climatic, hydrological, and nutrient gradients within a short distance for reducing the effect of biogeographical factors in the western Anatolian plateau of Turkey. Generalized linear model analyses revealed that temperature was overall the most important driving variable, followed by total nitrogen (TN) and salinity. The chlorophylla:total phosphorus ratio, the cyanobacteria:total phytoplankton biovolume ratio, the fish:zooplankton biomass ratio, the proportion of small fish, and fish richness increased with increasing temperature, whereas macrophyte plant volume inhabited (PVI, %), richness, and evenness decreased. Grazing pressure, macrophyte coverage, piscivore biomass, phytoplankton richness, and evenness decreased significantly with both increasing TN and temperature. Temperature and nutrients also separated the northern highland lakes from other lakes in a non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis. Additionally, salinity reduced richness and evenness of phytoplankton and zooplankton. Our results indicate major changes in lake structure and functioning with warming and eutrophication, and highlight the need for strict control of nutrients and water use.

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Drought, Elevation, Land use, Richness, Salinity, Small fish

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30078

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INLAND WATERS

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https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2020.1746599

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Graduate School of Marine Sciences, Article

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M. Beklioğlu et al., “Influences of climate and nutrient enrichment on the multiple trophic levels of Turkish shallow lakes,” INLAND WATERS, pp. 173–185, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30078.