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@article{624113,
author = {Tomanová, Sylvie and Goitia, Edgar and Helešic, Jan},
article_location = {Netherlands},
article_number = {556},
keywords = {neotropical aquactic insect; gut contents analysis; functional groups; fuzzy coding},
language = {eng},
issn = {0018-8158},
journal = {Hydrobiologia},
title = {Trophic levels and functional feeding groups of macroinvertebrates in neotropical streams},
volume = {556},
year = {2006}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 624113
AU - Tomanová, Sylvie - Goitia, Edgar - Helešic, Jan
PY - 2006
TI - Trophic levels and functional feeding groups of macroinvertebrates in neotropical streams
JF - Hydrobiologia
VL - 556
IS - 556
SP - 251-264
EP - 251-264
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
SN - 00188158
KW - neotropical aquactic insect
KW - gut contents analysis
KW - functional groups
KW - fuzzy coding
N2 - Feeding strategies are typical traits reflecting the adaptation of species to environmental conditions. This concept is currently developed in some water quality systems (e.g. Index of Trophic completeness) and the structure of functional feeding groups (FFGs) could form part of a unified measure across communities differing in taxonomic composition. However, in South America, information about the FFG classification of invertebrates in streams is almost absent and existing studies using FFG structure follows classification from North America. But even taxonomically related species may have different diets in tropical and temperate areas and therefore, studies about FFG structure in neotropics could be biased. For this reason, we determined diet composition, trophic level and FFGs, using gut contents analysis and mouthpart observations of 49 macroinvertebrate taxa (mostly at genus level) from neotropical streams. We observed that practically all macroinvertebrates fed upon fine detritus which indicates the importance of this food resource in neotropical streams. As the assignment to a single FFG does not accurately reflect the functional profile of taxa, we transcribed the affinity of taxa to each FFG using fuzzy codes. Finally, we published the coding of diet composition and FFG of the taxa examined, which could be used in future community analyses of lotic ecosystems in the Neotropical zone.
ER -
TOMANOVÁ, Sylvie, Edgar GOITIA and Jan HELEŠIC. Trophic levels and functional feeding groups of macroinvertebrates in neotropical streams. \textit{Hydrobiologia}. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006, vol.~556, No~556, p.~251-264. ISSN~0018-8158.
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