Salinisation effects on benthic invertebrate assemblages in shallow lakes in arid and semiarid climate zones.

ABSTRACT: Shallow lakes, including those located at the border between Europe and Asia (Kazakhstan), have become very prone to increasing salinity because of climate change. Most of the study area is in one of the fastest-warming parts of the globe. Our research, conducted in four lakes varying in water salinity level and located in western Kazakhstan in the steppe, semi-desert, and desert zones, can be used to predict biodiversity as indicators of the natural potential of ecosystems. This was achieved by assessing the associations of invertebrate communities with environmental conditions based on data collected during nine seasonal measurement campaigns (in May, July, and September of 2019, 2020, and 2021). The multidimensional scaling (nMDS) of biotic and abiotic data enabled us to identify lakes

SUBMITTER: Sarmanov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11666594 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature