BIBLIOS

Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
The ecological role of permanent ponds in Europe: a review of dietary linkages to terrestrial ecosystems via emerging insects

Participants in the publication
Lena Fehlinger (Author)
Benjamin Misteli (Author)
Daniel Morant (Author)
Noël Juvigny-Khenafou (Author)
David Cunillera-Montcusí (Author)
Fernando Chaguaceda (Author)
Olivera Stamenković (Author)
Julie Fahy (Author)
Vojtěch Kolář (Author)
Dariusz Halabowski (Author)
Liam N. Nash (Author)
Ellinor Jakobsson (Author)
Veronica Nava (Author)
Pietro Tirozzi (Author)
Pablo Urrutia Cordero (Author)
Julien Mocq (Author)
Alba Camacho Santamans (Author)
Jose Manuel Zamora (Author)
Pierre Marle (Author)
Teofana Chonova (Author)
Luca Bonacina (Author)
Margaux Mathieu-Resuge (Author)
Ena Suarez (Author)
Stephen E. Osakpolor (Author)
Pablo Timoner (Author)
Vesela Evtimova (Author)
Darmina Nita (Author)
Bruno M. Carreira (Author)
Dep. Biologia Animal
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Kálmán Tapolczai (Author)
Joana Martelo (Author)
Rémi Gerber (Author)
Valentin Dinu (Author)
Jorge Henriques (Author)
Géza B. Selmeczy (Author)
Biljana Rimcheska (Author)

Summary
Permanent ponds are valuable freshwater systems and biodiversity hotspots. They provide diverse ecosystem services (ES), including water quality improvement and supply, food provisioning and biodiversity support. This is despite being under significant pressure from multiple anthropogenic stressors and the impacts of ongoing global change. However, ponds are largely overlooked in management plans and legislation, and ecological research has focused on large freshwater ecosystems, such as rivers or lakes. Protection of ponds is often insufficient or indirectly provided via associated habitats such as wetlands. This phenomenon is likely exacerbated due to lacking a full-scale understanding of the importance of ponds. In this review, we provided a detailed overview of permanent ponds across Europe, including their usages and the biodiversity they support. By discussing the concepts of pondscape and metacommunity theory, we highlighted the importance of connectivity among and between ponds and identified fluxes of emerging insects as another ES of ponds. Those insects are rich in essential nutrients such as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which are delivered through them to the terrestrial environment, however the extent and impact of this ES remains largely unexplored. Several potential stressors, especially related to ongoing global change, which influence pond diversity and integrity were discussed. To conclude this review, we provided our insights on future pond management. Adaptive measures, taking into account the pond system per se within the pondscape, were found to be the most promising to mitigate the loss of natural ponds and restore and conserve natural small water bodies as refuges and diversity hotspots in increasingly urbanized landscapes.


Where published
Inland Waters

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 2044-2041

Publisher
Informa UK Limited


Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2022.2111180
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2022.2111180

Rankings
SCIMAGO Q1 (2021) - 0.74 - Aquatic Science

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