#8198. Declining chironomid diversity in relation to human influences in southwest China

October 2026publication date
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Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous);
Global and Planetary Change;
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Abstract:
The presence of a large altitude gradient makes southwest China an area with among the highest biodiversity in the world. While studies on biodiversity in this region have primarily focused on plant, plankton, and bacterial communities, how diversity of zoobenthos changes along the altitude gradient remains unclear. Based on surveys of water column, lake surface sediments, human population density and chironomids from 129 lakes in southwest China, we calculated the chironomid diversity to investigate the pattern of diversity in lakes varied in altitude. We also employed multiple linear regression analysis to decipher the main driver for the patterns of diversity and tease out the role of human influences.
Keywords:
Biodiversity; Chironomid; Human impacts; Lakes; Southwest China; ?-diversity

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