Temporal dynamics of invertebrate community assembly in Lake Victoria since the late Pleistocene based on chitinous remains

被引：3

作者：

King, Leighton ^{[1
,2
,12
]}

Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin ^{[3
,4
]}

Cuenca-Cambronero, Maria ^{[1
,5
]}

Wienhues, Giulia ^{[6
,7
]}

Ngoepe, Nare ^{[1
,2
]}

Muschick, Moritz ^{[1
,2
]}

Temoltzin-Loranca, Yunuen ^{[6
,7
,8
]}

Vogel, Hendrik ^{[7
,9
]}

Grosjean, Martin ^{[6
,7
]}

Tinner, Willy ^{[7
,8
]}

Cohen, Andrew ^{[10
]}

Kishe, Mary ^{[11
]}

Heiri, Oliver ^{[3
]}

Seehausen, Ole ^{[1
,2
]}

Matthews, Blake ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Swiss Fed Inst Aquat Sci & Technol, Dept Fish Ecol & Evolut, EAWAG, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland

[2] Univ Bern, Inst Ecol & Evolut, Aquat Ecol & Evolut, Bern, Switzerland

[3] Univ Basel, Dept Environm Sci, Geoecol, Basel, Switzerland

[4] Nelson Mandela African Inst Sci & Technol, Ctr Water Infrastructure & Sustainable Energy WISE, Tengeru, Arusha, Tanzania

[5] Cent Univ Catalonia, Univ Vic, Aquat Ecol Grp, Vic, Catalonia, Spain

[6] Univ Bern, Inst Geog, Bern, Switzerland

[7] Univ Bern, Oeschger Ctr Climate Change Res, Bern, Switzerland

[8] Univ Bern, Inst Plant Sci, Bern, Switzerland

[9] Univ Bern, Inst Geol Sci, Bern, Switzerland

[10] Univ Arizona, Dept Geosci, Tucson, AZ USA

[11] Tanzania Fisheries Res Inst, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

[12] Swiss Fed Inst Aquat Sci & Technol, EAWAG, Dept Fish Ecol & Evolut, CH-6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland

来源：

FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | 2024年 / 69卷 / 05期

关键词：

Chaoborus; chironomids; Cladocera; East Africa; palaeolimnology; AIR-TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION GEOCHEMICAL RECORD; AFRICAN HUMID PERIOD; EAST-AFRICA; SPECIES TURNOVER; NILE PERCH; SUBFOSSIL CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERAN SUBFOSSILS; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; NORTHERN-HEMISPHERE;

D O I：

10.1111/fwb.14237

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

1. Preserved assemblages of invertebrate remains in lacustrine sediment reveal temporal variations of community composition and environmental conditions. However, records for large tropical lakes are scarce. Lake Victoria, the largest tropical lake, has a dynamic history of changes in water level, biogeochemistry and fish community composition over the past similar to 17,000 cal yr BP. 2. In order to quantify changes in the invertebrate assemblage of Lake Victoria from the late Pleistocene throughout the Holocene, we examined chitinous remains of Cladocera and larval dipterans (Chironomidae and Chaoboridae) from a sediment core (37 m water depth) dated from similar to 13,700 cal yr BP to present. 3. We identified four major phases in the invertebrate assemblage throughout this period of lake history. Firstly, Chironomidae and Chaoboridae appeared at low abundances during the earliest stages of lake inundation in the late Pleistocene, at a time when Cladocera were notably absent. Secondly, chaoborids and chironomids increased in abundance during the mid-Holocene, which coincided with high diatom production toward the end of the Holocene African Humid Period. Thirdly, starting similar to 4,700 cal yr BP, Alona, a predominantly littoral cladoceran genus, consistently appeared in the invertebrate assemblage alongside changes in mixing regimes and persisted throughout the late Holocene to the present. Fourthly, the arrival of both Chydorus and Bosmina longirostris marked the establishment of an abundant cladoceran assemblage at similar to 1,350 cal yr BP. The assemblage then gradually shifted toward the increasing dominance of B. longirostris, a planktonic cladoceran. 4. Several of the observed changes in the invertebrate assemblage occurred concurrently with changes in climatic conditions in East Africa and diatom productivity that have been previously recorded in Lake Victoria. This multi-millennial record of sedimentary invertebrate assemblages in Lake Victoria elucidates some of the temporal development of these communities throughout most of the dynamic modern history of the ecosystem.

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页码：660 / 678

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