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Contribution of artificial waterbodies to biodiversity: A glass half empty or half full?

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dc.contributor.authorZamora Marín, Jose Manuel
dc.contributor.authorIlg, Christiane
dc.contributor.authorDemierre, Eliane
dc.contributor.authorBonnet, Nelly
dc.contributor.authorWezel, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorRobin, Joël
dc.contributor.authorVallod, Dominique
dc.contributor.authorCalvo, José Francisco
dc.contributor.authorOliva Paterna, Francisco José
dc.contributor.authorOertli, Beat
dc.contributor.departmentZoología y Antropología Física
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-22T11:46:45Z
dc.date.available2024-01-22T11:46:45Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-24
dc.description©2020. The authors. This document is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by /4.0/ This document is the accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Science of the Total Environment. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141987
dc.description.abstractArtificial ponds are increasingly created for the services they provide to humans. While they have the potential to offer habitats for freshwater biodiversity, their contribution to regional diversity has hardly been quantified. In this study, we assess the relative contribution of five types of artificial ponds to regional biodiversity of five different regions, studying amphibians, water beetles and freshwater snails. This biodiversity is also compared with that observed in natural ponds from three of the investigated regions. Our results indicate that artificial ponds host, on average, about 50% of the regional pool of lentic species. When compared to natural ponds, the artificial ponds always supported a substantially lower alpha richness (54% of the natural pond richness). The invertebrate communities presented high values of beta diversity and were represented by a restricted set of widely distributed species, and by numerous rare species. There were discrepancies among the taxonomic groups: overall, amphibians benefited most from the presence of artificial ponds, since 65% of the regional lentic species pools for this group was found in artificial ponds, whereas 43% and 42% was observed in the case of beetles and snails, respectively. However, each invertebrate group was promptly the most benefited animal group in a single pond type. Therefore, artificial pond types were complementary among them in terms of contribution to regional diversity of the three animal groups. Based on these results, we forecast that future human-dominated landscapes in which most ponds are artificial will be particularly impoverished in terms of freshwater biodiversity, underlining the need to conserve existing natural ponds and to create new “near-natural” ponds. However, if properly designed and managed, artificial ponds could make a substantial contribution to support freshwater biodiversity at a regional scale. Furthermore, the number and diversity of artificial ponds must be high in each considered landscape.
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dc.identifier.citationScience of the Total Environment (2020)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141987
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/137512
dc.languageenges
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationThis work was funded indirectly by several projects and institutions: FAUNETANG (OFEV), MARVILLE (OFEV, Canton of Geneva), MARAJURA (Natural Park Jura VD), DOMBES (French Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, DIVA2 programme; Agence de l’Eau Rhone-Méditerranée-Corse; Rhone-Alpes Region). We are grateful to the Swiss Biological Records Centre (CSCF-KARCH, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) for providing the regional species lists. We are grateful for the invaluable contributions made by the Aquatic Ecology Group of the University of Murcia, especially by A. Millán, D. Sánchez-Fernández, A. García-Messeguer and P. Abellán, as well as V. Rosset, N. Ménetrey and D. Leclerc from the HEPIA institute. We also thank the Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology of the University of Murcia for the human and logistic support they provided. J.M.Z-M was supported by a PhD grant from the University of Murcia (reference R-605/2016) and from the HES-SO (International Relations).
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