An abundant future for quagga mussels in deep European lakes

Article Article scientifique Article An abundant future for quagga mussels in deep European lakes eng 2023-11-07 2023-11-07 author Kraemer Benjamin M 0000-0002-3390-9005 author Boudet Salomé Ernestine 939734 Forel Communs (FOREL) author Burlakova Lyubov E 0000-0002-2995-919X author Haltiner Linda 0000-0001-7681-667X author Ibelings Bastiaan Willem 0000-0002-7213-7407 781963 Forel Communs (FOREL) author Karatayev Alexander Y 0000-0002-4432-5232 author Karatayev Vadim A 0000-0001-7112-8069 author Rossbacher Silvan author Stöckli Raphael author Straile Dietmar 0000-0002-7441-8552 author Spaak Piet 0000-0003-0631-373X 124008 10.1088/1748-9326/ad059f 1748-9326 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad059f Quagga mussels have expanded their range across the northern hemisphere in recent decades owing to their dispersal abilities, prolific reproduction rates, and broad ecological tolerances. Their remarkable capacity to filter particulates from the water column has had profound effects on inland aquatic ecosystems. In the North American Great Lakes, quagga mussel populations have increased inexorably since the late 1980’s, but it remains unclear whether quagga mussels will follow a similar trajectory in Europe where they have appeared more recently. Here we apply knowledge from a long-term quagga population monitoring effort in the North American lakes to predict future quagga populations in deep European lakes, where quaggas are quickly becoming a conspicuous part of the underwater landscape. We predict that quagga mussel biomass in Lakes Biel, Constance, and Geneva may increase by a factor of 9–20 by 2045. Like in North America, this increase may be characterized by a shift to larger individuals and deeper depths as the population matures. If realized, this rapid expansion of quagga mussels would likely drive the largest aquatic ecosystem change in deep European lakes since the eutrophication period of the mid-20th century. Dewey 550 Dewey 333.7-333.9 41 Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l'environnement et de l'eau 153 18 Institut des sciences de l'environnement 0DB false 757 Microbial Ecology Environmental research letters 18 12 68edc784-a0a7-4962-8e86-0156fdcf5678 Article (Published version) Public Kraemer_2023_Environ._Res._Lett._181.pdf 1384640 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 ca841eb303c6e71a80cac51d540c926e3587f69f4a6105df4d1b99dd2595e00d openAccess Faculté des sciences / Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement / Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l'environnement et de l'eau Centres et instituts / Institut des sciences de l'environnement

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