《Aquatic Ecological》杂志刊登“气候变化和淡水浮游动物：这是如何归结？”

作者：Csaba Vadadi-Fulop,Csaba Sipkay,Gergely Meszaros and Levente Hufnagel

关键词：全球变暖；水蚤；物候学；群落动态；生态模型

摘要：气候-浮游动物交界面的研究近来取了重大进展，吸引了包括生态学家在内的广泛公众的关注。然而，同海洋领域相比，还缺乏一个关于淡水领域最新研究成果的全面总结。本研究探讨了由气候变化引起的湖泊、河流的物理和生物属性、高阶生态功能的变化，并随之造成浮游植物的丰度、物候、分布、身体大小、群落结构、生活史参数以及其行为的变化。在生态学中，这些大尺度的气候指数被广泛认同，并为解释淡水浮游动物在群落和物种水平上的反应提供了框架。河流、湖泊的生态流特别适合于气候变化的研究，由于这一领域所固有的预测性，建模观点值得特别考虑。未来，生态学家应该扩展除他们的研究物种而不仅局限于水蚤，应该解决关于不同的内在和外在驱动力如何相互作用的问题，应该超越相关方法的研究向着机理解释的方向发展，最后，应该促进生物数据在时间和空间上的传输。

Climate change and freshwater zooplankton:what does it boil down to?

Author: Csaba Vadadi-Fulop,Csaba Sipkay,Gergely Meszaros and Levente Hufnagel

Journal: Aquatic Ecology

Key words: Global warming ; Daphnia ;Phenology ; Community;dynamics ;Ecological models

Abstract: Recently, major advances in the climate–zooplankton interface have been made some of which appeared to receive much attention in a broader audience of ecologists as well. In contrast to the marine realm, however, we still lack a more holistic summary of recent knowledge in freshwater. We discuss climate change-related variation in physical and biological attributes of lakes and running waters, high-order ecological functions, and subsequent alteration in zooplankton abundance, phenology, distribution, body size, community structure, life history parameters, and behavior by focusing on community level responses. The adequacy of large-scale climatic indices in ecology has received considerable support and provided a framework for the interpretation of community and species level responses in freshwater zooplankton. Modeling perspectives deserve particular consideration, since this promising stream of ecology is of particular applicability in climate change research owing to the inherently predictive nature of this field. In the future, ecologists should expand their research on species beyond daphnids, should address questions as to how different intrinsic and extrinsic drivers interact, should move beyond correlative approaches toward more mechanistic explanations, and last but not least, should facilitate transfer of biological data both across space and time.

原文链接：http://www.springerlink.com/content/fj521q261q82j817/