Publication details
Unravelling large-scale patterns and drivers of biodiversity in dry rivers
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Citation | FOULQUIER, Arnaud, Thibault DATRY, Roland CORTI, Daniel VON SCHILLER, Klement TOCKNER, Rachel STUBBINGTON, Mark O. GESSNER, Frédéric BOYER, Marc OHLMANN, Wilfried THUILLER, Delphine RIOUX, Christian MIQUEL, Ricardo ALBARIÑO, Daniel C. ALLEN, Florian ALTERMATT, Maria Isabel ARCE, Shai ARNON, Damien BANAS, Andy BANEGAS-MEDINA, Erin BELLER, Melanie L. BLANCHETTE, Joanna BLESSING, Iola Gonçalves BOËCHAT, Kate BOERSMA, Michael BOGAN, Núria BONADA, Nick BOND, Katherine BRINTRUP, Andreas BRUDER, Ryan BURROWS, Tommaso CANCELLARIO, Cristina CANHOTO, Stephanie CARLSON, Núria CID, Julien CORNUT, Michael DANGER, Bianca DE FREITAS TERRA, Anna Maria DE GIROLAMO, Rubén DEL CAMPO, Verónica DÍAZ VILLANUEVA, Fiona DYER, Arturo ELOSEGI, Catherine FEBRIA, Figueroa Jara RICARDO, Brian FOUR, Sarig GAFNY, Rosa GÓMEZ, Lluís GÓMEZ-GENER, Simone GUARESCHI, Björn GÜCKER, Jason HWAN, J. Iwan JONES, Patrick S. KUBHEKA, Alex LAINI, Simone Daniela LANGHANS, Bertrand LAUNAY, Guillaume LE GOFF, Catherine LEIGH, Chelsea LITTLE, Stefan LORENZ, Jonathan MARSHALL, Eduardo J. MARTIN SANZ, Angus MCINTOSH, Clara MENDOZA-LERA, Elisabeth I. MEYER, Marko MILIŠA, Musa C. MLAMBO, Manuela MORAIS, Nabor MOYA, Peter NEGUS, Dev NIYOGI, Iluminada PAGÁN, Athina PAPATHEODOULOU, Giuseppe PAPPAGALLO, Isabel PARDO, Petr PAŘIL, Steffen U PAULS, Marek POLÁŠEK, Pablo RODRÍGUEZ-LOZANO, Robert J. ROLLS, Maria Mar SÁNCHEZ-MONTOYA, Ana SAVIĆ, Oleksandra SHUMILOVA, Kandikere R. SRIDHAR, Alisha STEWARD, Amina TALEB, Avi UZAN, Yefrin VALLADARES, Ross VANDER VORSTE, Nathan J. WALTHAM, Dominik H. ZAK and Annamaria ZOPPINI. Unravelling large-scale patterns and drivers of biodiversity in dry rivers. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. ENGLAND: NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2024, vol. 15, No 1, p. "7233", 15 pp. ISSN 2041-1723. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50873-1. |
| web | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50873-1 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50873-1 |
| Keywords | Animals; Archaea; Bacteria; Biodiversity; DNA Barcoding; Taxonomic; Fungi; Geologic Sediments; Invertebrates; Plants; Rivers |
| Description | More than half of the world’s rivers dry up periodically, but our understanding of the biological communities in dry riverbeds remains limited. Specifically, the roles of dispersal, environmental filtering and biotic interactions in driving biodiversity in dry rivers are poorly understood. Here, we conduct a large-scale coordinated survey of patterns and drivers of biodiversity in dry riverbeds. We focus on eight major taxa, including microorganisms, invertebrates and plants: Algae, Archaea, Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, Arthropods, Nematodes and Streptophyta. We use environmental DNA metabarcoding to assess biodiversity in dry sediments collected over a 1-year period from 84 non-perennial rivers across 19 countries on four continents. Both direct factors, such as nutrient and carbon availability, and indirect factors such as climate influence the local biodiversity of most taxa. Limited resource availability and prolonged dry phases favor oligotrophic microbial taxa. Co-variation among taxa, particularly Bacteria, Fungi, Algae and Protozoa, explain more spatial variation in community composition than dispersal or environmental gradients. This finding suggests that biotic interactions or unmeasured ecological and evolutionary factors may strongly influence communities during dry phases, altering biodiversity responses to global changes. |
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