caa a22 4500 445893710 CHVBK 20180317145624.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10750-010-0551-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10750-010-0551-x Jeffries Michael Division of Environmental Management, School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Ellison Building, NE1 8ST, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK aut The temporal dynamics of temporary pond macroinvertebrate communities over a 10-year period [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Jeffries] Ponds support a rich biodiversity. This arises in part because of the number and heterogeneity of ponds spatially throughout the landscape. Studies of ponds suggest that distinct communities develop within individual ponds but most examples are based on short-term 1- or 2-year surveys which cannot identify the effects of historic events upon contemporary communities. This study reports the development and turnover of the early summer macroinvertebrate communities in thirty small temporary ponds from their creation in 1994 over 10 years to 2004. Distinct pioneer communities established in the first year of the ponds' creation, the first 3years dominated by a fauna associated with long summer dry phases. Then a sustained period of inundation lasting 27months from summer 1997-1999 resulted in establishment of many taxa associated with permanent ponds and loss of some temporary pond species. The re-establishment of summer dry phases in 1999 was associated with the loss of some but not all of the permanent water taxa and re-colonisation by some temporary water species creating new communities combining these different elements. The communities were not a linear successional sequence; the communities that re-assembled following resumption of dry phases reflected the contingent history of each pond and the effects of historic events. The longer term nature of the study showed that the characteristic heterogeneity of pond invertebrate communities occurs through time as well as spatially and that the richness and variety of contemporary communities, which is often hard to explain from snap-shot studies, is partly the result of historic events. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Temporary ponds nationallicence Macroinvertebrates nationallicence Community nationallicence History nationallicence Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 661/1(2011-02-01), 391-405 0018-8158 661:1<391 2011 661 10750 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0551-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0551-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jeffries Michael Division of Environmental Management, School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Ellison Building, NE1 8ST, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 661/1(2011-02-01), 391-405 0018-8158 661:1<391 2011 661 10750 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer