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Biogeochemical water type influences community composition, species richness, and biomass in megadiverse Amazonian fish assemblages.


ABSTRACT: Amazonian waters are classified into three biogeochemical categories by dissolved nutrient content, sediment type, transparency, and acidity-all important predictors of autochthonous and allochthonous primary production (PP): (1) nutrient-poor, low-sediment, high-transparency, humic-stained, acidic blackwaters; (2) nutrient-poor, low-sediment, high-transparency, neutral clearwaters; (3) nutrient-rich, low-transparency, alluvial sediment-laden, neutral whitewaters. The classification, first proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1853, is well supported but its effects on fish are poorly understood. To investigate how Amazonian fish community composition and species richness are influenced by water type, we conducted quantitative year-round sampling of floodplain lake and river-margin habitats at a locality where all three water types co-occur. We sampled 22,398 fish from 310 species. Community composition was influenced more by water type than habitat. Whitewater communities were distinct from those of blackwaters and clearwaters, with community structure correlated strongly to conductivity and turbidity. Mean per-sampling event species richness and biomass were significantly higher in nutrient-rich whitewater floodplain lakes than in oligotrophic blackwater and clearwater river-floodplain systems and light-limited whitewater rivers. Our study provides novel insights into the influences of biogeochemical water type and ecosystem productivity on Earth's most diverse aquatic vertebrate fauna and highlights the importance of including multiple water types in conservation planning.

SUBMITTER: Bogota-Gregory JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Biogeochemical water type influences community composition, species richness, and biomass in megadiverse Amazonian fish assemblages.

Bogotá-Gregory Juan David JD   Lima Flávio C T FCT   Correa Sandra B SB   Silva-Oliveira Cárlison C   Jenkins David G DG   Ribeiro Frank R FR   Lovejoy Nathan R NR   Reis Roberto E RE   Crampton William G R WGR  

Scientific reports 20200918 1


Amazonian waters are classified into three biogeochemical categories by dissolved nutrient content, sediment type, transparency, and acidity-all important predictors of autochthonous and allochthonous primary production (PP): (1) nutrient-poor, low-sediment, high-transparency, humic-stained, acidic blackwaters; (2) nutrient-poor, low-sediment, high-transparency, neutral clearwaters; (3) nutrient-rich, low-transparency, alluvial sediment-laden, neutral whitewaters. The classification, first propo  ...[more]

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