Response of Pond Food Webs to Anthropogenic Habitat Degradation

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Pond ecosystems in crop fields show significant declines in species richness and abundance of key species, especially tadpoles and predatory macroinvertebrates.
Lower species richness in crop-affected ponds contrasts with higher diversity in basal resources, pointing to impacts from agricultural intensification.
Analysis of ecological communities used a multitrophic approach to assess changes in assemblage abundance and food web structure across different land uses.
These findings highlight the urgent need for targeted management to improve resilience and safeguard biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.

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Observational analysis reveals biodiversity loss and altered food web structure in pond ecosystems, indicating agricultural impacts.

Gobel et al. (2025) studied this question.

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