Aquatic insects of lowland rainforest in Papua New Guinea: assemblage structure in relation to habitat type

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0187" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0187</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0187" target="_blank" >10.1515/biolog-2015-0187</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Aquatic insects of lowland rainforest in Papua New Guinea: assemblage structure in relation to habitat type

Original language description

Papua New Guinea is one of the most valuable tropical regions but ecological research of its freshwater invertebrates has been lacking. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the species richness, diversity and structure of aquatic insect assemblages in different habitats in the Wanang River catchment in a well-preserved lowland rainforest. Assemblage structure was studied on two spatial scales - in different habitats (river, streams and stagnant pools) and in three mesohabitats in the river (slow and fast sections and submerged wood). The results show that headwater streams had the highest morphospecies diversity, while the river had the highest insect abundance. Slow and fast sections of the river differed both in terms of insect abundance and diversity. Furthermore, a number of unique wood-associated species was found on submerged wood. The most notable feature of the assemblage structure was scarcity of shredders and dominance of predators. However, predatory beetles, bugs and dragonfly larvae exhibited contrasting habitat preferences. This study shows that Papua New Guinean lowland rainforests host diverse and distinctly structured freshwater insect assemblages.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biologia

ISSN

0006-3088

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1621-1630

UT code for WoS article

000368889500008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84957593582