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Salinity Variation Reshapes Macroinvertebrate Communities in Alpine Lakes.

Baoqiang Wang1, Xiong Xiong1, Jiahao Zhang2,3

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Global environmental change is altering alpine lake salinity. Rising salinity negatively impacts macroinvertebrate diversity and shifts community assembly, threatening high-altitude ecosystems.

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Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Limnology
  • Environmental Science

Background:

  • Global lakes face unprecedented salinity changes.
  • Ecological impacts on high-altitude ecosystems, especially alpine lakes, are poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify global salinity patterns in alpine lakes.
  • To assess macroinvertebrate responses to salinity variation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
  • To analyze community assembly mechanisms under salinity gradients.

Main Methods:

  • Field surveys at 77 littoral sites across 40 alpine lakes.
  • Multidimensional diversity and community assembly analyses.
  • Analysis of macroinvertebrate adaptive strategies to salinity.

Main Results:

  • Salinity is the dominant factor structuring macroinvertebrate communities.
  • Local diversity (taxonomic and functional) decreases with increasing salinity.
  • Community assembly shifts from stochastic to deterministic processes along the salinity gradient.

Conclusions:

  • Salinity variation significantly impacts alpine lake biodiversity and ecosystem function.
  • Moderate-salinity lakes are critical thresholds where diversity loss accelerates.
  • Conservation of high-altitude ecosystems requires addressing salinity changes.