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THE RELATIONSHIP IN LAKE COMMUNITIES BETWEEN PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND SPECIES RICHNESS
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An understanding of the relationship between species richness and productivity is crucial to understanding biodiversity in lakes. We investigated the relationship between the primary productivity of lake ecosystems and the number of species for lacustrine phytoplankton, rotifers, cladocerans, copepods, macrophytes, and fish. Our study includes two parts: (1) a survey of 33 well‐studied lakes for which data on six major taxonomic groups were available; and (2) a comparison of the effects of short‐ and long‐term whole‐lake nutrient addition on primary productivity and planktonic species richness. In the survey, species richness of all six taxa showed a significant quadratic response to increased annual primary productivity (¹⁴C estimate, g C·m⁻²·yr⁻¹) when lake area is taken into account. However, the richness–productivity relationship for phytoplankton and fish was strongly dependent on lake area. The relationship for phytoplankton, rotifers, cladocerans, copepods, and macrophytes was significantly unimodal. Species richness generally peaked at levels of primary productivity in the range of 30–300 g C·m⁻²·yr⁻¹. For the average lake size, the highest biodiversity tended to occur in lakes with relatively low primary productivity, such as those found in the Northern Temperate Lakes Long‐Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in the upper Midwest (United States) and in the Experimental Lakes Area of Ontario (Canada). Based on short‐term (3 yr) and long‐term (21–24 yr) experiments, w…
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“Recent studies on species diversity and lake productivity suggest the relationship of species richness with trophic state is not linear, but rather quadratic with peak species richness at moderate levels of productivity and lower richness as productivity increases or decreases (e.g., Rosenzwieg and Abramsky 1993, Dodson et al. 2000, Mittelbach et al. 2001).”
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- Authors
- Dodson, S. I., Arnott, S. E., & Cottingham, K. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dodson, Stanley I.
- Venue
- Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-10
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2662-2679
- ISSN
- 0012-9658 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2123298206
- Cited by
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- FWCI
- 14.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Locations
- Ecology (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Keywords
- species richness–productivity relationship, primary productivity, lake biodiversity, phytoplankton, rotifers, Cladocera, copepods, aquatic plants, fish, lake area, unimodal response, zooplankton, experimental lakes, long-term ecological research
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