Environmental filtering of aquatic insects in spring fens: patterns of species-specific responses related to specialist-generalist categorization
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F17%3A00094947" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094947 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3169-4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3169-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3169-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10750-017-3169-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Environmental filtering of aquatic insects in spring fens: patterns of species-specific responses related to specialist-generalist categorization
Original language description
Environmental factors driving compositional changes of headwater aquatic assemblages have been widely studied as these habitats are among the most vulnerable environments and host diverse and species-rich assemblages. However, responses of individual species to multiple environmental gradients remain poorly known, despite such information being essential for understanding the differences in metacommunity structuring. This study aims to explore species-specific responses to the main environmental gradients in Central European spring fens and to assess the responses in relation to the specialist-generalist categorization of species. In total, the responses of 40 species were analysed by GLM, cluster analysis and PCA. Spring-fen specialists responded predominantly to water temperature and the proportion of fine particulate organic matter in the substratum, while generalists responded mainly to flow conditions and oxygenation in the combination with various substratum characteristics. Our results revealed that it is not easy to find general patterns in species responses to environmental gradients. However, we found a clear distinction between specialist and generalist species in how the local environment affects their successful colonization and establishment of viable population. This result emphasizes the need to consider species specialization in future ecological studies of aquatic spring biota.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10600 - Biological sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-03881S" target="_blank" >GA16-03881S: The coexistence of aquatic invertebrates in spring fens: the role of abiotic heterogeneity and biotic interactions at regional and local scale</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Hydrobiologia
ISSN
0018-8158
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
797
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
159-170
UT code for WoS article
000404174200012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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