a 2009

Occurence and co-occurence of stream chironomids: associations with environmental gradients and community characteristics

BRABEC, Karel, Jiří JARKOVSKÝ and Klára KUBOŠOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Occurence and co-occurence of stream chironomids: associations with environmental gradients and community characteristics

Edition

2009

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

China

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

chironomid coexistence, distribution, community pattern, streams

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International impact
Změněno: 9/3/2010 13:50, Mgr. Karel Brabec, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

MSM0021622412, plan (intention)
Name: Interakce mezi chemickými látkami, prostředím a biologickými systémy a jejich důsledky na globální, regionální a lokální úrovni (INCHEMBIOL) (Acronym: INCHEMBIOL)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)