Catchment properties and the photosynthetic trait composition of freshwater plant communities

Author:

Iversen L. L.12ORCID,Winkel A.1ORCID,Baastrup-Spohr L.1ORCID,Hinke A. B.1ORCID,Alahuhta J.34ORCID,Baattrup-Pedersen A.5ORCID,Birk S.6ORCID,Brodersen P.1ORCID,Chambers P. A.7ORCID,Ecke F.8ORCID,Feldmann T.9,Gebler D.10ORCID,Heino J.4,Jespersen T. S.11ORCID,Moe S. J.12ORCID,Riis T.5ORCID,Sass L.13ORCID,Vestergaard O.14,Maberly S. C.15ORCID,Sand-Jensen K.1ORCID,Pedersen O.116ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

3. Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.

4. Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland.

5. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

6. Aquatic Ecology, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.

7. Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

8. Department of Wildlife, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

9. Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.

10. Department of Ecology and Environment, Poznán University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland.

11. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

12. Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway.

13. Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA

14. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.

15. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK.

16. School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.

Abstract

Change in plants as bicarbonate rises Freshwater plants can be broadly divided into two major categories according to their photosynthetic traits: Some use carbon dioxide as their carbon source, whereas others use bicarbonate. Iversen et al. found that the relative concentrations of these two inorganic carbon forms in water determine the functional composition of plant communities across freshwater ecosystems (see the Perspective by Marcé and Obrador). They created global maps revealing that community composition is structured by catchment geology and not climate (in contrast to the terrestrial realm, where the trait composition is structured by temperature and rainfall). Anthropogenic influences from land-use change are causing large-scale increases in bicarbonate concentrations in freshwater catchments and are thus leading to wholesale changes in the composition of their aquatic plant communities. Science , this issue p. 878 ; see also p. 805

Funder

Carlsbergfondet

Independent Research Fund Denmark

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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