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Carpathian spring fens versus nearby brooks: what does Trichodrilus strandi (Lumbriculidae) like more?

BÍLKOVÁ, Martina and Jana SCHENKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Carpathian spring fens versus nearby brooks: what does Trichodrilus strandi (Lumbriculidae) like more?

Name (in English)

Carpathian spring fens versus nearby brooks: what does Trichodrilus strandi (Lumbriculidae) like more?

Authors

BÍLKOVÁ, Martina and Jana SCHENKOVÁ

Edition

13th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta: Book of Abstracts. Brno, Masaryk University. 2015

Other information

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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ISBN

978-80-210-7911-3

Keywords (in Czech)

Trichodrilus strandi, slatiniště, potoky, ekologie

Keywords in English

Trichodrilus strandi, fens, brooks, ecology
Změněno: 17/10/2015 12:23, Mgr. Martina Bílková

Abstract

V originále

Trichodrilus strandi Hrabě, 1936, likewise other congeners, belongs to the stygophilous species. There was little known about this species in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but recent field research of treeless spring fens (with various geographical position, size, altitude, vegetation, mineral richness of water, substrate etc.) in the Western Carpathians showed that Trichodrilus strandi prefers mineral-rich fens with tufa formation and its populations reach high abundances replacing other oligochaete species there. Later research of nearby brooks revealed that this species inhabited also adjacent brooks but only in waters with alkaline reaction. The aim of our study was to compare populations of Trichodrilus strandi living in spring fens and in nearby brooks. Material was collected in spring and autumn seasons (2006–2013), in spring fens at two mesohabitats (standing water and flowing water), in brooks at three mesohabitats (riffle, pool, mosses). Main factors determining the presence of Trichodrilus strandi were identified. Some differences between these two main types of habitat and also between individual mesohabitats were observed.

Links

GA15-15548S, research and development project
Name: Kroužkovci izolovaných mikro-mokřadů: od vody až po půdu
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
MUNI/A/0888/2013, interní kód MU
Name: Biodiverzita - analýzy biologických systémů různých úrovní a na různých škálách prostředí (Acronym: BIDA3)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A