While it is now well accepted that human activities are having pronounced effects on natural ecosystems, regional variation in the rate and magnitude of various human impacts is unclear. Moreover, the effects of land use change on natural aquatic communities have only relatively recently begun to be explored. Our goal was to understand how and where assemblages of a central food web component of freshwater lakes have changed over the course of industrialization in relation to land use.

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自前工业时代以来与土地利用相关的浮游动物组合结构和多样性

虽然现在人们普遍认为人类活动对自然生态系统产生了显着影响，但各种人类影响的速度和幅度的区域差异尚不清楚。此外，直到最近才开始探索土地利用变化对自然水生群落的影响。我们的目标是了解在工业化过程中与土地利用相关的淡水湖泊中央食物网组成部分的组合如何以及在何处发生变化。