Macroinvertebrate community responses to copper in laboratory and field experimental streams

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Clements ◽  
Donald S. Cherry ◽  
John Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Macroinvertebrate Community ◽  
Community Responses

scholarly journals Macroinvertebrate community responses to a dewatering disturbance gradient in a restored stream

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1771-1783 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Muehlbauer ◽  
M. W. Doyle ◽  
E. S. Bernhardt
Keyword(s):  
Species Abundance ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Community ◽  
Summer Drought ◽  
Community Responses ◽  
Disturbance Gradient ◽  
Habitat Refugia ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Community Variability ◽  
Strong Control

Abstract. Dewatering disturbances are common in aquatic systems and represent a relatively untapped field of disturbance ecology, yet studying dewatering events along gradients in non-dichotomous (i.e. wet/dry) terms is often difficult. Because many stream restorations can essentially be perceived as planned hydrologic manipulations, such systems can make ideal test-cases for understanding processes of hydrological disturbance. In this study we used an experimental drawdown in a 440 ha stream/wetland restoration site to assess aquatic macroinvertebrate community responses to dewatering and subsequent rewetting. The geomorphic nature of the site and the design of the restoration allowed dewatering to occur predictably along a gradient and decoupled the hydrologic response from any geomorphic (i.e. habitat heterogeneity) effects. In the absence of such heterogeneous habitat refugia, reach-scale wetted perimeter and depth conditions exerted a strong control on community structure. The community exhibited an incremental response to dewatering severity over the course of this disturbance, which was made manifest not as a change in community means but as an increase in community variability, or dispersion, at each site. The dewatering also affected inter-species abundance and distributional patterns, as dewatering and rewetting promoted alternate species groups with divergent habitat tolerances. Finally, our results indicate that rapid rewetting – analogous to a hurricane breaking a summer drought – may represent a recovery process rather than an additional disturbance and that such processes, even in newly restored systems, may be rapid.

scholarly journals Aquatic macroinvertebrate community responses to wetland mitigation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 942-953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah K. Swartz ◽  
Blake R. Hossack ◽  
Erin Muths ◽  
Robert L. Newell ◽  
Winsor H. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Macroinvertebrate Community ◽  
Wetland Mitigation ◽  
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ◽  
Community Responses ◽  
Aquatic Macroinvertebrate ◽  
Greater Yellowstone

Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to Gravel Addition in a Southeastern Regulated River

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan A. McManamay ◽  
Donald J. Orth ◽  
Charles A. Dolloff
Keyword(s):  
Macroinvertebrate Community ◽  
Regulated River ◽  
Community Responses

scholarly journals Macroinvertebrate community responses to river impoundment at multiple spatial scales

2019 ◽  
Vol 650 ◽  
pp. 2648-2656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik J. Krajenbrink ◽  
Mike Acreman ◽  
Michael J. Dunbar ◽  
David M. Hannah ◽  
Cédric L.R. Laizé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Community ◽  
Community Responses ◽  
Multiple Spatial Scales

Stream macroinvertebrate community responses to fire: are they the same in different fire-prone biogeographic regions?

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 1527-1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Verkaik ◽  
M. Vila-Escalé ◽  
M. Rieradevall ◽  
C. V. Baxter ◽  
P. S. Lake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Macroinvertebrate Community ◽  
Community Responses ◽  
Stream Macroinvertebrate ◽  
Biogeographic Regions

In situ studies with Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) detect acid mine drainage and nutrient inputs in low-order streams

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J Soucek ◽  
Travis S Schmidt ◽  
Donald S Cherry
Keyword(s):  
Acid Mine Drainage ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Corbicula Fluminea ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Community ◽  
Benthic Macroinvertebrate ◽  
Nutrient Inputs ◽  
Community Responses ◽  
Acid Mine

In situ Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea [Müller]) studies may effectively mirror resident community responses to both acute toxicants and nutrient inputs in low-order streams. Clam survival and growth after 30 days in situ were compared with benthic macroinvertebrate community structural changes caused by acid mine drainage (AMD) and nutrient loading (measured as nitrate) in a small subwatershed of the North Fork Powell River, Virginia, U.S.A. Clam survival distinguished between two different levels of impact due to acidic, neutralized, and intermittent AMD inputs and was positively correlated with water column pH and negatively correlated with conductivity and metal con centrations. Survival was also positively correlated with relative abundance of the order Ephemeroptera, the most sensitive macroinvertebrate taxonomic group to AMD in this system. Clam growth was not related to AMD inputs but was positively correlated with nitrate concentrations and the relative abundance of the collector-filterer functional feeding group. These results suggest that transplanted clam studies accurately reflect benthic macroinvertebrate community responses to multiple stressors from point and nonpoint sources.

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