Perspectives for an integrated understanding of tropical and temperate high-mountain lakes
Accepted: 21 October 2015
HTML: 8341
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.
Authors
High mountain lakes are extreme freshwater ecosystems and excellent sentinels of current global change. They are likely among the most comparable ecosystems across the world. The largest contrast occurs between lakes in temperate and tropical areas. The main difference arises from the seasonal patterns of heat exchange and the external loadings (carbon, phosphorus, metals). The consequence is a water column structure based on temperature, in temperate lakes, and oxygen, in tropical lakes. This essential difference implies that, in tropical lakes, one can expect a more sustained productivity throughout the year; a higher nutrient internal loading based on the mineralization of external organic matter; higher nitrification-denitrification potential related to the oxyclines; and a higher metal mobilization due to the permanently reduced bottom layer. Quantifying and linking these and other biogeochemical pathways to particular groups of organisms is in the current agenda of high-mountain limnology. The intrinsic difficulties of the taxonomic study of many of the organisms inhabiting these systems can be now overcome with the use of molecular techniques. These techniques will not only provide a much less ambiguous taxonomic knowledge of the microscopic world, but also will unveil new biogeochemical pathways that are difficult to measure chemically and will solve biogeographical puzzles of the distribution of some macroscopic organism, tracing the relationship with other areas. Daily variability and vertical gradients in the tropics are the main factors of phytoplankton species turnover in tropical lakes; whereas seasonality is the main driver in temperate communities. The study of phytoplankton in high-mountain lakes only makes sense in an integrated view of the microscopic ecosystem. A large part of the plankton biomass is in heterotrophic, and mixotrophic organisms and prokaryotes compete for dissolved resources with eukaryotic autotrophs. In fact, high-mountain lake systems are excellent model ecosystems for applying an investigation linking airshed to sediments functional views. Additionally, the study of the mountain lakes districts as functional metacommunity units may reveal key differences in the distribution of organisms of limited (slow) dispersal. We propose that limnological studies at tropical and temperate high mountain lakes should adhere to a common general paradigm. In which biogeochemical processes are framed by the airshed-to-sediment continuum concept and the biogeographical processes in the functional lake district concept. The solid understanding of the fundamental limnological processes will facilitate stronger contributions to the assessment of the impacts of the on-going global change in remote areas.
Supporting Agencies
Ministerio de Economía y Competividad, Generalitat de Catalunya.How to Cite
-
Prafulla K. Sahoo, José T.F. Guimarães, Pedro W.M. Souza-filho, Reinaldo Luiz Bozelli, Luciana Rabelo de Araujo, Rafaella de Souza Menezes, Paloma Marinho Lopes, Marcio S.da Silva, Tarcísio M. Rodrigues, Marlene F.da Costa, Roberto Dall'AgnolAnnales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology : 2017
-
Xavier Benito, Annika Vilmi, Melina Luethje, Maria Laura Carrevedo, Marja Lindholm, Sherilyn C. FritzFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution : 2020
-
Javier Alcocer, Luis A. Oseguera, Diana Ibarra-Morales, Elva Escobar, Lucero García-CidDiversity : 2021
-
Beata Ferencz, Magdalena Toporowska, Jarosław DawidekWater : 2019
-
Xavier Benito, Blas Benito, Maria I. Vélez, Jorge Salgado, Tobias Schneider, Liviu Giosan, Majoi N. NascimentoScience of The Total Environment : 2022
-
Fabian Sommer, Bettina Sonntag, Nikolai Rastl, Monika Summerer, Barbara TartarottiFrontiers in Environmental Science : 2022
-
Yanmin Cao, Jia Peng, Siqi Zhou, Xu ChenEnvironmental Research : 2024
-
José Luis Jiménez-Seinos, Javier Alcocer, Dolors Planas, Frank O. MasesePLOS ONE : 2023
-
K.A. Moser, J.S. Baron, J. Brahney, I.A. Oleksy, J.E. Saros, E.J. Hundey, S. Sadro, J. Kopáček, R. Sommaruga, M.J. Kainz, A.L. Strecker, S. Chandra, D.M. Walters, D.L. Preston, N. Michelutti, F. Lepori, S.A. Spaulding, K.R. Christianson, J.M. Melack, J.P. SmolGlobal and Planetary Change : 2019
-
Anatoliy Filonov, María del Refugio Barba-López, Iryna Tereshchenko, Lydia B. Ladah, Diego A. Pantoja, Javier Alcocer, Federico Ángel Velázquez-MuñozWater : 2022
-
Peter Bitušík, Milan Novikmec, Ladislav HamerlikBiodiversity Data Journal : 2020
-
Ceran SekeryapanLimnologica : 2022
-
Diana Ibarra-Morales, Raúl A. Silva-Aguilera, Luis A. Oseguera, Martín Merino-Ibarra, Javier AlcocerScience of The Total Environment : 2022
-
Diego Frau, Brendan J. Moran, Felicity Arengo, Patricia Marconi, Yamila Battauz, Celeste Mora, Ramiro Manzo, Gisela Mayora, David F. BouttHydrology : 2021
-
Anatoliy Filonov, María del Refugio Barba-López, Lydia Ladah, Iryna Tereshchenko, Emilio Palacios-Hernández, Javier Alcocer, David Ávalos-CuevaLimnologica : 2022
-
Dirk S. Schmeller, Davnah Urbach, Kieran Bates, Jordi Catalan, Dan Cogălniceanu, Matthew C. Fisher, Jan Friesen, Leopold Füreder, Veronika Gaube, Marilen Haver, Dean Jacobsen, Gael Le Roux, Yu-Pin Lin, Adeline Loyau, Oliver Machate, Andreas Mayer, Ignacio Palomo, Christoph Plutzar, Hugo Sentenac, Ruben Sommaruga, Rocco Tiberti, William J. RippleScience of The Total Environment : 2022
-
Eliška Rejmánková, Benjamin W. Sullivan, José R. Ortiz Aldana, Jenise M. Snyder, Stephanie T. Castle, Fátima Reyes MoralesFreshwater Biology : 2018
-
Xavier Benito, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Miriam Steinitz‐Kannan, Maria I. Vélez, Michael M. McGlueEcology and Evolution : 2018
-
Mayrene O. Guimarais-Bermejo, Martin Merino-Ibarra, Patricia M. Valdespino-Castillo, Fermín S. Castillo-Sandoval, Jorge A. Ramírez-ZieroldPeerJ : 2018
-
Xiong Pan, Li Lin, Zhuo Huang, Min Liu, Lei Dong, Jin Chen, John CrittendenEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research : 2019
-
Elder de Oliveira Sodré, Reinaldo Luiz BozelliInternational Aquatic Research : 2019
-
Maurice Alfonso Duka, Malone Luke E. Monterey, Niño Carlo I. Casim, Jake Henson R. Andres, Katsuhide YokoyamaWater : 2024
-
Emilio O. CasamayorAdvances in Global Change Research : 2017
-
Nelson Javier Aranguren-Riaño, Jonathan B. Shurin, Adriana Pedroza-Ramos, Claudia Liliana Muñoz-López, Ricardo López, Omar CelyAquatic Sciences : 2018
-
Pablo V. Mosquera, Henrietta Hampel, Raúl F. Vázquez, Jordi CatalanLimnology and Oceanography : 2022
-
Janeth Agudelo Quintero, Martha Mesa-GrandaIntropica : 2022
-
Haijun Liu, Yaning Chen, Zhaoxia Ye, Yupeng Li, Qifei ZhangScientific Reports : 2019
-
Compound effects of water clarity, inflow, wind and climate warming on mountain lake thermal regimesKyle R. Christianson, Brett M. Johnson, Mevin B. HootenAquatic Sciences : 2020
-
Kyle R. Christianson, Kelly A. Loria, Peter D. Blanken, Nel Caine, Pieter T. J. JohnsonLimnology and Oceanography Letters : 2021
-
Ruben SommarugaClara N Delgado, Javier Alcocer,Journal of Plankton Research : 2020
-
Pablo Aguilar, Cristina Dorador, Irma Vila, Ruben SommarugaFEMS Microbiology Ecology : 2018
-
Estela Cuna, Javier Alcocer, Martha Gaytán, Margarita CaballeroDiversity : 2022
-
Melina Luethje, Pablo V. Mosquera, Henrietta Hampel, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Xavier BenitoFreshwater Biology : 2024
-
Nicolás Forero-Pineda, Adriana Pedroza-Ramos, Johana Marin-Suarez, Nelson Aranguren-Riaño, Andrés Gómez-PalacioArchives of Microbiology : 2021
-
Hugo Sentenac, Adeline Loyau, Luca Zoccarato, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Hans-Peter Grossart, Dirk S. SchmellerWater Research : 2023
-
Scott Hotaling, Lusha M. Tronstad, James Cody BishJournal of Natural History : 2017
-
Claudia Liliana Muñoz-López, Carlos A. Rivera-RondónAquatic Sciences : 2022
-
Cantonati, Poikane, Pringle, Stevens, Turak, Heino, Richardson, Bolpagni, Borrini, Cid, Čtvrtlíková, Galassi, Hájek, Hawes, Levkov, Naselli-Flores, Saber, Cicco, Fiasca, Hamilton, Kubečka, Segadelli, ZnachorWater : 2020
-
Angela Zapata, Carlos A. Rivera-Rondón, Daivan Valoyes, Claudia L. Muñoz-López, Marino Mejía-Rocha, Jordi CatalanWater : 2021
-
Anatoliy Filonov, Iryna Tereshchenko, María del Refugio Barba-López, David Avalos-Cueva, Cesar MonzonEnvironmental Sciences : 2023
-
G. Le Roux, S.V. Hansson, A. ClaustresDevelopments in Earth Surface Processes : 2016
-
Xavier Benito, Melina G. Feitl, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Pablo V. Mosquera, Tobias Schneider, Henrietta Hampel, Luis Quevedo, Miriam Steinitz‐KannanJournal of Biogeography : 2019
-
Kyle R. Christianson, Brett M. Johnson, Mevin B. Hooten, James J. RobertsLimnology and Oceanography : 2019