2009
Occurence and co-occurence of stream chironomids: associations with environmental gradients and community characteristics
BRABEC, Karel; Jiří JARKOVSKÝ and Klára KUBOŠOVÁBasic information
Original name
Occurence and co-occurence of stream chironomids: associations with environmental gradients and community characteristics
Authors
Edition
2009
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Conference abstract
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
China
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Marked to be transferred to RIV
No
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
Keywords in English
chironomid coexistence, distribution, community pattern, streams
Tags
International impact
Changed: 9/3/2010 13:50, Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D.
Abstract
In the original language
Role of chironomids in diversity and functional structure of stream macroinvertebrate communities is usually explained by niche concept, scale-dependent models of fluvial ecosystems, life strategies, and abundance models. General distribution patterns and taxa associations of stream chironomids were investigated based on records from the Czech Republic. Chironomid taxa being well represented in the dataset, consistently identified and covering different life strategies were selected. Multivariate methods (CART, NMDS, cluster analyses and Random Forest) were applied to find links among single taxa occurrence, coexistence, community patterns, and environmental factors. Study results contributed to understanding of macroinvertebrate communities’ patterns, their predictability, environmental drivers and chironomids traits.
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