2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/20/2019 | 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | USING TRAITS TO DECONSTRUCT LINKAGES BETWEEN MACROINVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AND WETLAND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION ACROSS A FLOODPLAIN DISTURBANCE GRADIENT | 251 AB
USING TRAITS TO DECONSTRUCT LINKAGES BETWEEN MACROINVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AND WETLAND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION ACROSS A FLOODPLAIN DISTURBANCE GRADIENT
Floodplains are disturbance-driven ecosystems with high spatial and temporal habitat diversity, making them both highly productive and hosts to high biodiversity. The unpredictable timing of flood and drought years creates a mosaic of habitat patches at different stages of succession, while water level fluctuation directly influences macrophyte community dynamics, and thus habitat structure. This habitat complexity, and diversity of disturbance regimes, makes floodplains an ideal ecosystem in which to examine the links between biodiversity, traits and ecosystem function. Despite the rise in trait-based science, few studies outside of plant ecology have examined the links between traits and measured ecosystem function. Using high throughput genomics sequencing methods that reliably characterize community composition in unprecedented detail, we aim to determine how disturbance and environmental variables interact with macroinvertebrate traits that are known to affect ecosystem function. Specifically, we ask the following questions: 1) How do habitat diversity and disturbance regimes associate with protection and management? 2) What are the linkages among environmental drivers and disturbance, macroinvertebrate community structure and ecosystem function? 3) Are there taxa and trait indicators that can predict habitat change and ecosystem health in floodplain wetlands?
- Metagenomics
- Floodplain
- Disturbance
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Natalie Rideout
(), Canadian Rivers Institute, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, nrideout@unb.ca;
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Zacchaeus Compson
(), University of North Texas, zacchaeus.greg.compson@gmail.com;
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Wendy Monk
(), Environment and Climate Change Canada @ Canadian Rivers Institute, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, wmonk@unb.ca;
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Mehrdad Hajibabaei
(), Centre for Biodiversity Genomics & Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, ON, Canada, mhajibab@uoguelph.ca;
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Donald Baird
(), Environment and Climate Change Canada @ Canadian Rivers Institute, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, djbaird@unb.ca;
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