Back to Search
Start Over
Small-Scale Distribution of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in Two Spring Fens with Different Groundwater Chemistry
- Source :
- International Review of Hydrobiology. 96:235-256
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2011.
-
Abstract
- We examined responses of macroinvertebrate assemblages to environmental and temporal variations along spring source-spring brook transects in two fen habitats, sharply differing in groundwater chemistry, and compared the patterns among individual taxonomical groups. We hypothesised a different importance of environmental heterogeneity and seasonal changes primarily linked to strong tufa precipitation, which causes stronger environmental filtering in the calcareous fen. In concordance, we observed that assemblages of the more homogenous calcareous fen primarily changed over time, due to seasonal shifts in source availability and favourable conditions.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Ecology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
15. Life on land
Aquatic Science
Seasonality
Spatial distribution
medicine.disease
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Habitat
Tufa
medicine
Transect
Calcareous
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Groundwater
Hydrobiology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14342944
- Volume :
- 96
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Review of Hydrobiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c25ebce15ce68b6fc555dca8d782b435