Wetland hydroperiod predicts community structure, but not the magnitude of cross-community congruence.

Journal

Scientific reports

ISSN: 2045-2322

Titre abrégé: Sci Rep

Pays: England

ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 01 2021

Historique:

received: 27 01 2020

accepted: 11 12 2020

entrez: 12 1 2021

pubmed: 13 1 2021

medline: 13 1 2021

Statut: epublish

Résumé

A major focus in community ecology is understanding how biological interactions and environmental conditions shape horizontal communities. However, few studies have explored whether cross-community interactions are consistent or non-stationary across environmental gradients. Using the relative abundance of birds, aquatic macroinvertebrates and plants, we examined how cross-community congruence varied between short and long-hydroperiod prairie pothole wetlands in southern Alberta. These wetlands are structured by their hydroperiod: the length of time that ponded water is present in the wetland. We compared the strength of cross-community congruence and the strength of congruence between each horizontal community and wetland hydroperiod in wetlands that typically contain ponded water throughout the year to wetlands that dry up every summer. The strength of cross-community relationships was similar between more permanent and more ephemeral wetland classes, suggesting that biological interactions have a near equivalent role in shaping community composition, regardless of hydroperiod. However, because cross-community congruence, measured as the Procrustes pseudo-R value, was, on average, 77% ± SE 12% greater than that between each horizontal community and measures of wetland hydroperiod, we concluded that community structure is not shaped by hydroperiod alone. We attribute the observed cross-community congruence to (1) plants and aquatic macroinvertebrates influence birds through habitat and food provisioning, and (2) birds influence plants and aquatic macroinvertebrates by dispersing their propagules.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80027-4 PMID: 33432086 PMC: PMC7801406

pubmed: 33432086

doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-80027-4

pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-80027-4

pmc: PMC7801406

doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

Pagination

429

Références

Vellend, M. The Theory of Ecological Communities (MPB-57). The Theory of Ecological Communities (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883790 .

Kraft, N. J. B. et al. Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor. Funct. Ecol. 29, 592–599 (2015).

doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12345

Pearson, D. E., Ortega, Y. K., Eren, Ö. & Hierro, J. L. Community assembly theory as a framework for biological invasions. Trends Ecol. Evol. 33, 313–325 (2018).

pubmed: 29605085 doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.03.002

Cadotte, M. W. & Tucker, C. M. Should environmental filtering be abandoned?. Trends Ecol. Evol. 32, 429–437 (2017).

pubmed: 28363350 doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.03.004

Duan, M. et al. Disentangling effects of abiotic factors and biotic interactions on cross-taxon congruence in species turnover patterns of plants, moths and beetles. Sci. Rep. 6, 23511 (2016).

pubmed: 27032533 pmcid: 4817036 doi: 10.1038/srep23511

Uboni, C. et al. Exploring cross-taxon congruence between carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and vascular plants in sites invaded by Ailanthus altissima versus non-invaded sites: The explicative power of biotic and abiotic factors. Ecol. Indic. 103, 145–155 (2019).

doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.03.052

Robertson, M. & Avilés, L. Rain, predators and vegetation lushness may structure web-building spider communities along precipitation gradients. Ecol. Entomol. 44, 217–226 (2019).

doi: 10.1111/een.12699

Vleminckx, J. et al. Coordinated community structure among trees, fungi and invertebrate groups in Amazonian rainforests. Sci. Rep. 9, 11337 (2019).

pubmed: 31383883 pmcid: 6683196 doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47595-6

Maestre, F. T. et al. Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 365, 2057–2070 (2010).

doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0016

He, Q., Bertness, M. D. & Altieri, A. H. Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress. Ecol. Lett. 16, 695–706 (2013).

pubmed: 23363430 doi: 10.1111/ele.12080

Scherrer, D. et al. Disentangling the processes driving plant assemblages in mountain grasslands across spatial scales and environmental gradients. J. Ecol. 107, 265–278 (2019).

doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13037

Wellborn, G. A., Skelly, D. K. & Werner, E. E. Mechanisms creating community structure across a freshwater habitat gradient. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 27, 337–363 (1996).

doi: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.27.1.337

Chamberlain, D. E., Cannon, A. R. & Toms, M. P. Associations of garden birds with gradients in garden habitat and local habitat. Ecography 27, 589–600 (2004).

doi: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03984.x

Pennings, S. C. & Silliman, B. R. Linking biogeography and community ecology: Latitudinal variation in plant–herbivore interaction strength. Ecology 86, 2310–2319 (2005).

doi: 10.1890/04-1022

Chamberlain, S. A., Bronstein, J. L. & Rudgers, J. A. How context dependent are species interactions?. Ecol. Lett. 17, 881–890 (2014).

pubmed: 24735225 doi: 10.1111/ele.12279

Kissling, W. D. et al. Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents. J. Biogeogr. 39, 2163–2178 (2012).

doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02663.x

Rudolf, V. H. W. The role of seasonal timing and phenological shifts for species coexistence. Ecol. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13277 (2019).

doi: 10.1111/ele.13277 pubmed: 31125170

Thompson, J. N. Variation in interspecific interactions. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 19, 65–87 (1988).

doi: 10.1146/annurev.es.19.110188.000433

Bar-Massada, A. & Belmaker, J. Non-stationarity in the co-occurrence patterns of species across environmental gradients. J. Ecol. 105, 391–399 (2017).

doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12713

Hengeveld, R. Biogeographical ecology. J. Biogeogr. 21, 341–351 (1994).

doi: 10.2307/2845752

Osborne, P. E., Foody, G. M. & Suárez-Seoane, S. Non-stationarity and local approaches to modelling the distributions of wildlife. Divers. Distrib. 13, 313–323 (2007).

doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00344.x

Clark, N. J., Wells, K. & Lindberg, O. Unravelling changing interspecific interactions across environmental gradients using Markov random fields. Ecology 99, 1277–1283 (2018).

pubmed: 29768661 doi: 10.1002/ecy.2221

Bryant, J. P., Chapin, F. S. & Klein, D. R. Carbon/nutrient balance of boreal plants in relation to vertebrate herbivory. Oikos 40, 357 (1981).

doi: 10.2307/3544308

Post, D. M., Palkovacs, E. P., Schielke, E. G. & Dodson, S. I. Intraspecific variation in a predator affects community structure and cascading trophic interactions. Ecology 89, 2019–2032 (2008).

pubmed: 18705387 doi: 10.1890/07-1216.1

Agrawal, A. A., Lau, J. A. & Hambäck, P. A. Community heterogeneity and the evolution of interactions between plants and insect herbivores. Q. Rev. Biol. 81, 349–376 (2006).

pubmed: 17240728 doi: 10.1086/511529

Lisboa, F. J. G. et al. Much beyond Mantel: Bringing procrustes association metric to the plant and soil ecologist’s toolbox. PLoS ONE 9, e101238 (2014).

pubmed: 24971901 pmcid: 4074130 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101238

Kraft, A. J., Robinson, D. T., Evans, I. S. & Rooney, R. C. Concordance in wetland physicochemical conditions, vegetation, and surrounding land cover is robust to data extraction approach. PLoS ONE 14, e0216343 (2019).

pubmed: 31150421 pmcid: 6544339 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216343

Toranza, C. & Arim, M. Cross-taxon congruence and environmental conditions. BMC Ecol. 10, 18 (2010).

pubmed: 20637092 pmcid: 2914051 doi: 10.1186/1472-6785-10-18

Rooney, R. C. & Bayley, S. E. Community congruence of plants, invertebrates and birds in natural and constructed shallow open-water wetlands: Do we need to monitor multiple assemblages?. Ecol. Indic. 20, 42–50 (2012).

doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.029

Larsen, S., Mancini, L., Pace, G., Scalici, M. & Tancioni, L. Weak concordance between fish and macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean streams. PLoS ONE 7, e51115 (2012).

pubmed: 23251432 pmcid: 3519485 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051115

Heino, J., Paavola, R., Virtanen, R. & Muotka, T. Searching for biodiversity indicators in running waters: Do bryophytes, macroinvertebrates, and fish show congruent diversity patterns?. Biodivers. Conserv. 14, 415–428 (2005).

doi: 10.1007/s10531-004-6064-z

Corte, G. N. et al. Cross-taxon congruence in benthic communities: Searching for surrogates in marine sediments. Ecol. Indic. 78, 173–182 (2017).

doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.03.031

Cracraft, J. & Prum, R. O. Pattern and processes of diversification: Speciation and historical congruence in some Neotropical birds. Evolution 42, 603–620 (1988).

pubmed: 28563998 doi: 10.2307/2409043

Moritz, C. et al. Biogeographical concordance and efficiency of taxon indicators for establishing conservation priority in a tropical rainforest biota. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B. 268, 1875–1881 (2001).

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1713

Rooney, R. C. & Azeria, E. T. The strength of cross-taxon congruence in species composition varies with the size of regional species pools and the intensity of human disturbance. J. Biogeogr. 42, 439–451 (2014).

doi: 10.1111/jbi.12400

Daniel, J., Gleason, J. E., Cottenie, K. & Rooney, R. C. Stochastic and deterministic processes drive wetland community assembly across a gradient of environmental filtering. Oikos 128, 1158–1169 (2019).

doi: 10.1111/oik.05987

Gleason, J. E. & Rooney, R. C. Pond permanence is a key determinant of aquatic macroinvertebrate community structure in wetlands. Freshw. Biol. 63, 264–277 (2018).

doi: 10.1111/fwb.13057

Clark, J. S., Campbell, J. H., Grizzle, H., Acosta-Martìnez, V. & Zak, J. C. Soil microbial community response to drought and precipitation variability in the chihuahuan desert. Microb. Ecol. 57, 248–260 (2009).

pubmed: 19067031 doi: 10.1007/s00248-008-9475-7

Brock, M. A., Nielsen, D. L., Shiel, R. J., Green, J. D. & Langley, J. D. Drought and aquatic community resilience: The role of eggs and seeds in sediments of temporary wetlands. Freshw. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01083.x (2003).

doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01083.x

Stewart, R. E. & Kantrud, H. A. Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes in the Glaciated Prairie Region. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife Resource Publication 92, vol. 554 (1971).

Euliss, N. H. et al. The wetland continuum: A conceptual framework for interpreting biological studies. Wetlands 24, 448–458 (2004).

doi: 10.1672/0277-5212(2004)024[0448:TWCACF]2.0.CO;2

Wright, H. E. J. Quaternary history of Minnesota. In Geology of Minnesota: A Centennial (eds Sims, P. K. & Morey, G.) 515–546 (Minnesota Geological Survey University of Minnesota, Minnesota, 1972).

Sauchyn, D. J., Barrow, E. M., Hopkinson, R. F. & Leavitt, P. R. Aridity on the Canadian plains. Géogr. Phys. Quat. 56, 247–259 (2004).

Downing, D. J. & Pettapiece, W. W. Natural Regions and Subregions of Alberta. https://www.albertaparks.ca/media/2942026/nrsrcomplete_may_06.pdf (2006).

Government of Alberta. Alberta Merged Wetland Inventory. (2014).

Anderson, D. L. & Rooney, R. C. Differences exist in bird communities using restored and natural wetlands in the Parkland region, Alberta, Canada. Restor. Ecol. 27, 1495–1507 (2019).

doi: 10.1111/rec.13015

Meyer, M. D., Davis, C. A. & Bidwell, J. R. Assessment of two methods for sampling invertebrates in shallow vegetated wetlands. Wetlands 33, 1063–1073 (2013).

doi: 10.1007/s13157-013-0462-5

Gleason, J. E. & Rooney, R. C. Aquatic macroinvertebrates are poor indicators of agricultural activity in northern prairie pothole wetlands. Ecol. Indic. 81, 333–339 (2017).

doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.06.013

Clifford, H. F. Aquatic Invertebrates of Alberta (University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 1991).

Merrit, R. W., Cummins, K. W. & Berg, M. B. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America (Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, 2008).

Environment Canada. CABIN Laboratory Methods: Processing, Taxonomy, and Quality Control of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Samples. 36 (2014).

Bolding, M. T., Kraft, A. J., Robinson, D. T. & Rooney, R. C. Improvements in multi-metric index development using a whole-index approach. Ecol. Indic. 113, 106191 (2020).

doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106191

Meyers, N. Use of Water Isotope Tracers to Characterize the Hydrology of Prairie Wetlands in Alberta (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, 2018).

Peres-Neto, P. R. & Jackson, D. A. How well do multivariate data sets match? The advantages of a procrustean superimposition approach over the Mantel test. Oecologia 129, 169–178 (2001).

pubmed: 28547594 doi: 10.1007/s004420100720

Nekola, J. C. & White, P. S. The distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology. J. Biogeogr. 26, 867–878 (1999).

doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00305.x

Dijksterhuis, G. B. & Gower, J. C. The interpretation of generalized procrustes analysis and allied methods. Food Qual. Prefer. https://doi.org/10.1016/0950-3293(91)90027-C (1991).

doi: 10.1016/0950-3293(91)90027-C

Oksanen, J. et al. vegan: Community Ecology Package. R Package Version 2.4–2 (2017).

Broadbooks, W. J. & Elmore, P. B. A Monte Carlo study of the sampling distribution of the congruence coefficient. Educ. Psychol. Meas. 47, 1–11 (1987).

doi: 10.1177/0013164487471001

Fife, D. fifer: A Biostatisticians Toolbox for Various Activities, Including Plotting, Data Cleanup, and Data Analysis. R package version 1.1. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fifer . (2017).

Levine, J. M. Indirect facilitation: Evidence and predictions from a riparian community. Ecology 80, 1762 (1999).

doi: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1762:IFEAPF]2.0.CO;2

Maestre, F. T., Valladares, F. & Reynolds, J. F. Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments. J. Ecol. 93, 748–757 (2005).

doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01017.x

Lewis, J. S. et al. Biotic and abiotic factors predicting the global distribution and population density of an invasive large mammal. Sci. Rep. 7, 44152 (2017).

pubmed: 28276519 pmcid: 5343451 doi: 10.1038/srep44152

Klanderud, K., Vandvik, V. & Goldberg, D. The importance of biotic vs. abiotic drivers of local plant community composition along regional bioclimatic gradients. PLoS ONE 10, e0130205 (2015).

pubmed: 26091266 pmcid: 4474800 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130205

Lários, M. C. et al. Evidence of cross-taxon congruence in Neotropical wetlands: Importance of environmental and spatial factors. Glob. Ecol. Conserv. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2017.09.003 (2017).

doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2017.09.003

Casanova, M. T. & Brock, M. A. How do depth, duration and frequency of flooding influence the establishment of wetland plant communities?. Plant Ecol. 147, 237–250 (2000).

doi: 10.1023/A:1009875226637

Murkin, H. R., Murkin, E. J. & Ball, J. P. Avian habitat selection and prairie wetland dynamics: A 10-year experiment. Ecol. Appl. 7, 1144–1159 (1997).

doi: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[1144:AHSAPW]2.0.CO;2

Naugle, D. E., Johnson, R. R., Estey, M. E. & Higgins, K. F. A landscape approach to conserving wetland bird habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region of eastern South Dakota. Wetlands 20, 588–604 (2001).

doi: 10.1672/0277-5212(2000)020[0588:ALATCW]2.0.CO;2

Mabidi, A., Bird, M. S. & Perissinotto, R. Distribution and diversity of aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in a semi-arid region earmarked for shale gas exploration (Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa). PLoS ONE 12, e0178559 (2017).

pubmed: 28575059 pmcid: 5456075 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178559

Panov, V. E. & Caceres, C. Role of diapause in dispersal of aquatic invertebrates. in Diapause in Aquatic Invertebrates Theory and Human Use 187–195 (Springer, New York, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5680-2_12 .

Faist, A. M., Ferrenberg, S. & Collinge, S. K. Banking on the past: Seed banks as a reservoir for rare and native species in restored vernal pools. AoB Plants 5, 1–10 (2013).

doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plt043

Reynolds, C. & Cumming, G. S. Seed traits and bird species influence the dispersal parameters of wetland plants. Freshw. Biol. 61, 1157–1170 (2016).

doi: 10.1111/fwb.12776

Klaassen, M. & Nolet, B. A. The role of herbivorous water birds in aquatic systems through interactions with aquatic macrophytes, with special reference to the Bewick’s Swan: Fennel Pondweed system. Hydrobiologia 584, 205–213 (2007).

doi: 10.1007/s10750-007-0598-5

Kleyheeg, E. et al. Movement patterns of a keystone waterbird species are highly predictable from landscape configuration. Mov. Ecol. 5, 2 (2017).

pubmed: 28174661 pmcid: 5289051 doi: 10.1186/s40462-016-0092-7

DeVlaming, V. & Proctor, V. W. Dispersal of aquatic organisms: viability of seeds recovered from the droppings of captive Killdeer and Mallard Ducks. Am. J. Bot. 55, 20 (2006).

doi: 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1968.tb06939.x

Ma, M., Ma, Z. & Du, G. Effects of water level on three wetlands soil seed banks on the Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE 9, e101458 (2014).

pubmed: 24984070 pmcid: 4077783 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101458

Poiani, K. A. & Johnson, W. C. Effect of hydroperiod on seed-bank composition in semipermanent prairie wetlands. Can. J. Bot. 67, 856–864 (1989).

doi: 10.1139/b89-115

Johnson, W. C. et al. Vulnerability of Northern Prairie wetlands to climate change. Bioscience 55, 863 (2005).

doi: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0863:VONPWT]2.0.CO;2

Voldseth, R. A., Johnson, W. C., Gilmanov, T., Guntenspergen, G. R. & Millett, B. V. Model estimation of land-use effects on water levels of northern Prairie wetlands. Ecol. Appl. 17, 527–540 (2007).

pubmed: 17489257 doi: 10.1890/05-1195