Macroinvertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning across the eutrophication gradients of the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River lakes (China).

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity, which strengthens ecosystem stability, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services, is threatened by anthropogenic perturbation and climate change worldwide. However, despite the study of the role of biodiversity in multiple facets of freshwater ecosystems, the linkages between macroinvertebrates diversity and ecosystem functioning have not yet been well-assessed in eutrophication gradients of lowland river-floodplain systems. In this study, we have examined the relationship between macroinvertebrates diversity (species diversity, functional diversity, phylogenetic diversity) and macroinvertebrates biomass across the three typically featured eutrophication gradients: "MACROPHYTE," "TRANSITION," and "PHYTOPLANKTON," of floodplain lakes in the middle and low

SUBMITTER: Cai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9846310 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature