September 10, 2025Diversity and DistributionsOpen Access

Role of Hydrology, Aquatic Vegetation, Habitat Size and Connectivity in Shaping Food Webs in a Eutrophic Agricultural Marshland

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Food webs with unstable hydrology showed higher connectance but unchanged maximum trophic levels.
Wider ditches with complex aquatic vegetation supported longer food chains but lower connectance overall.
Structural equation modelling examined the effects of hydrology and vegetation on food-web metrics from 2015 to 2021.
Conservation efforts must maintain environmental conditions to enhance food-web complexity and biodiversity.

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Observational analysis reveals hydrology and habitat size influence food webs in marshlands, indicating conservation prioritization is critical.

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Observational analysis reveals hydrology and habitat size influence food webs in marshlands, indicating conservation prioritization is critical.