Macroinvertebrate community succession in Wolf Point Creek, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

• 1 Macroinvertebrate community development in Wolf Point Creek in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska formed by ice recession was investigated from 1991 to 1994 as part of a long‐term study of colonization now exceeding 20 years. Chironomidae, the first taxon to colonize the stream, still dominated the community comprising 75–95% by number, but species succession was apparent.
• 2 Species richness in August increased from five species in 1978 to 11 in 1991 and 16 in 1994.
• 3 Diamesa species, abundant in 1978 at densities exceeding 2 750 m^‐2, were not collected in 1994, while Pagastia partica dominated the community with densities exceeding 10 000 m^‐2.
• 4 Sixteen taxa, never previously collected, colonized the stream between 1991 and 1994 including representatives of Coleoptera, Muscidae, Trichoptera, and the first noninsect taxon, Oligochaeta. Colonization by new taxa was associated with an increase in summer water temperature and the development of riparian vegetation.
• 5 Inter‐specific competition is suggested as a possible factor in species succession and is incorporated into a taxa richness model of community development in postglacial streams incorporating stable and unstable channels.

     

大型无脊椎动物群落指数和群落数量指数在河流水质评价中的应用

本文介绍了新西兰常用的大型无脊椎动物群落指数(MCI)和大型无脊椎动物群落数量指数(QMCI)的原理及使用方法,并利用MCI和QMCI对新西兰惠灵顿地区40条河流53个监测点进行评价.结果表明:MCI和QMCI均与河流营养指标呈极显著相关关系,可用来监测和评价水体的营养污染状况;二者快速准确地监测出惠灵顿地区河流水质总体良好,但部分河流污染严重,并分析了污染的原因.MCI与QMCI存在极显著相关关系,但MCI与营养指标间的相关关系大于QMCI,可以准确地反映出水体中营养元素的富集状况.     

贺兰山东麓荒漠藻结皮微生物群落结构及其演替研究

以宁夏贺兰山东麓荒漠藻结皮为研究对象,对处于不同发育阶段的藻结皮中微生物群落结构及其演替进行了研究。结皮样品高通量测序结果分别得到521个16S rDNA序列操作分类单元(OTU)和64个18S rDNA序列OTU,表明藻结皮中原核微生物多样性远高于真核微生物;贺兰山东麓藻结皮中原核微生物分布于26个纲,Cyanobacteria在各个发育阶段中都是优势微生物类群,Actinobacteria、Chloroplast、Alphaproteobacteria和Bacilli在藻结皮发育的各个阶段相对丰度也较高;从属水平上分析,Bacillus、Leptolyngbya、Microcoleus、Microvirga、Chroococcidiopsis、Rubellimicrobium、Phormidium、Mastigocladopsis、Skermanella、Nostoc、Scytonema共11个属在各个发育阶段的藻结皮中都存在,只是出现了丰度的差异。Bacillus在藻结皮形成期、发育初期和发育中期相对丰度较大,成熟期丰度显著下降,而成熟期Microvirga丰度较前3个时期显著增...     

滇池底栖无脊椎动物群落结构及水质评价

滇池位于云南省昆明市西南郊,海拔1885m的高原面上,受纳盘龙江、宝象河等21条入湖水源,湖水出口南流转北注入金沙江。滇池南北长39．0km^2,东西最宽12．5km^2,最窄2．44km^2,湖岸线151．2km^2,面积为330．0km^2,属于高原构造型亚热带石灰岩富营养型湖。     

盐沼植物对大型底栖动物群落的影响

2005年5月下旬在崇明东滩中潮区相同高程上的裸地(ld)、海三棱藨草(Scirpus×mariqueter)地(hs)、芦苇(Phragmites australis)地(lw)、互花米草(Spartinaalterniflora)地(hh)里取样研究了大型底栖动物群落。ld物种数、总个体数、Shannon-Wiener指数、Margalef物种丰富度指数、平均密度和平均生物量都是最低的;平均密度在裸地和3种盐沼植物地间都存在显著差异(P<0.05,LSD检验);平均生物量在海三棱藨草地与裸地间存在极显著的差异(P<0.01,LSD检验);等级聚类分析(Cluster)表明,裸地和盐沼植物地间大型底栖动物群落差异明显。hs、lw、hh中的优势种都是底上附着型的软体动物,而ld中则以穴居型的甲壳动物占优势;hs、lw、hh、ld的面上群与面下群的比值分别为0.56、0.63、0.63、0.75。3种盐沼植物地间大型底栖动物群落相似性程度较高,但非度量多维标度(MDS)排序仍然揭示出可以区分的差异。这些差异体现了盐沼植物对大型底栖动物群落的明显影响。盐沼植物是通过直接改变生境结构或间接影响水动力和沉积物扰动等作用进而明显地影响大型底栖动物群落,盐沼植物也是影响潮间带大型底栖动物群落的重要生态因子。     

Effects of insecticide applications on macroinvertebrate density and biomass in rice-fields in the Rhône-delta,France

The density of 23 macroinvertebrate species and the total macroinvertebrate biomass were compared between rice-fields treated with lindane and diazinon in June and alphamethine in August and untreated controls. The macroinvertebrates could be divided into four groups: (1) Taxa, in which the densities were lower in the insecticide treatment in July and August than in the non-insecticide treatment. (2) The Culicidae which occurred in the insecticide treatment in significantly lower density in July, but in significantly higher density in August. (3) Ischnura elegans (Vander L.) which was found in July after the lindane application in significantly higher numbers in the insecticide treatments, but in significantly lower numbers in the insecticide treatment in August after the application of the pyrethroid. In these three groups, we assumed that direct effects due to the insecticides toxicity were the reason for the differences in density. (4) The fourth group included three taxa in which the densities were significantly higher in the insecticide treatment in July and August than in the control. For this, indirect effects due to reduced biotic interactions may be responsible. The biomass was higher in the insecticide treatments in July, mainly because of a high increase in gastropod density, during the rest of the season it was similar between treatments and controls.     

植物群落的演替理论

演替是植被动态的中心问题.与演替有关的理论有接力植物区系学说、初始植物区系学说、促进忍耐和抑制学说、生活史对策演替学说、资源比率学说、Odum-Margelef生态系统发展理论、McMahon系统概念模型、变化镶嵌体稳态学说、演替的尺度等级系统观点. 文章论述了演替的分类、演替的进程、演替机制、顶极群落与非平衡态、植物群落的线性与线性系统、演替的细胞学和遗传学特征、演替与进化、演替的研究方法等.     

Differences in composition of macroinvertebrate communities with invasive and native Gammarus spp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

SUMMARY 1. Assessing the effects on communities of invasive species is often confounded by environmental factors. In Irish rivers, the introduced amphipod Gammarus pulex replaces the native G. duebeni celticus in lowland stretches. The two amphipods are associated with different macroinvertebrate communities, which may in part be the result of natural longitudinal physicochemical change. However, this hinders assessment of any direct community impacts of the invasive as compared with the native species. Here, we report on a fortuitous circumstance that allowed us to uncouple the community effects of Gammarus species from environmental differences.
2. The lowland stretch of the River Lissan is dissected by a weir, which has slowed the upstream invasion by G. pulex . We took physicochemical measurements and macroinvertebrate samples from three contiguous 150 m reaches of this stretch with G. pulex only, mixed Gammarus and G. d. celticus only communities.
3. We found no biologically significant differences in physicochemistry among the three reaches. Overall invertebrate densities did not differ among reaches. However, G. pulex numerically dominated its reach, whilst G. d. celticus abundance was relatively low in its reach. The G. pulex reach had significantly higher overall biomass because of high invader abundance. In addition, both diversity and species richness of macroinvertebrate communities were lower in the G. pulex than the G. d. celticus reach, with the mixed Gammarus reach intermediate.
4. Ordination indicated distinctly different associations of invertebrate community samples and taxa that were best explained by the distributions of the Gammarus species. Again, the mixed Gammarus species samples were intermediate.
5. This study indicates that the invasive G. pulex has a greater impact on macroinvertebrate community composition than the native G. d. celticus , probably through biotic interactions such as predation.     

底栖动物群落扰动作用对沉积物-水界面生源要素的影响

大型底栖无脊椎动物的生物扰动作用是维持淡水生态系统物质循环稳定的关键因素之一,当前对底栖动物群落与单一物种生物扰动作用异同的认识还十分有限。以微生境反应器培养五种典型底栖动物种群及其群落,通过测定底栖动物生物扰动作用引起的沉积物、上覆水中营养盐(NH₃-N、NO₂^--N、NO₃^--N和DTP)及溶解有机碳(DOC)的含量变化,同时计算各组单位生物量引起的元素变化量,探究单物种和生物群落扰动作用的差异以及对沉积物-水界面生源要素的影响。结果表明:单物种扰动作用导致沉积物NH₃-N含量降低(P < 0.05),并使整个体系中NO₃^--N含量增加(P < 0.05),但对DTP无显著影响(P > 0.05);而群落扰动作用则促进体系NH₃-N的增加(P < 0.05),使上覆水中NO₃^--N向沉积物沉积,同时引起上覆水DTP含量显著上升(P < 0.05)。单物种的独立扰动皆促进上覆水DOC含量降低(P < 0.05),霍甫水丝蚓的生物扰动导致沉积物的DOC含量降低且为唯一产生影响的物种(P < 0.05),而群落中各物种相互作用导致体系DOC浓度无变化(P > 0.05)。单物种/群落单位生物量对各类物质分布存在明显差异,霍甫水丝蚓的生物扰动作用对于上覆水和沉积物中的单位生物量C、N、P变化影响最为显著,但其扰动作用在群落组合中受到抑制,表明单位生物量扰动强度较大的物种,其扰动强度在群落中更容易受到抑制。     

青龙河底栖无脊椎动物群落结构及其水质评价

本文论述了青龙河底栖生物种类、数量、分布和结构等特点及其与环境因子间的关系。应用Beck、Gleason、Shannon、Simpson等生物指数对水质状况进行评价。结果表明青龙河除个别断面受污染外,大部分河段属尚清洁水。     

新薛河上游溪流典型生境底栖动物群落结构比较研究

群落时空格局研究是后续深入开展相关研究的基础。基于2012年山东省新薛河底栖动物调查数据,就新薛河上游典型溪流生境底栖动物群落结构进行了比较研究。结果表明:共采集底栖动物108种,隶属10纲,74属;短脉纹石蛾(Cheumatopsyche sp.)、长钝直突摇蚊(Orthocaldius vaillanti)、拟长跗摇蚊属一种(Paratanytarsus sp.E)、Neozarelia sp.为研究区域优势类群,相对丰度分别为25.1%、9.8%、9.0%、8.6%。各河段优势物种组成、密度、生物量、生物多样性均存在显著差异。非度量多维标度排序和多响应置换过程分析从群落层面验证了不同河段群落结构的差异;且发现,流量越小,群落分化越明显。通过指示物种和双向聚类分析,进一步明确了物种组成对群落结构的影响。总之,不同生境底栖动物物种组成和群落结构存在较大差异,栖境多样性对生物多样性的维持和保护具有重要意义。     

深圳湾福田红树林群落演替

对深圳湾福田凤塘河红树林演替过程中的群落结构、物种组成、多样性变化及演替趋势的研究结果表明:(1)演替各阶段群落均由秋茄(Kandelia candel)、木榄(Bruguiera gymnorrhiza)、桐花树(Aegiceras corniculatum)、白骨壤(Avicennia marina)及老鼠簕(Acanthus ilicifolius)5个种类组成。(2)演替早期(4 a)群落高度增长较快,之后继续保持较快增长,至17 a时趋于稳定,之后增长速度缓慢。(3)4 a和17 a的群落立木级均分布在Ⅱ级—Ⅳ级,56 a和73 a的群落立木均达到最高级Ⅴ级,该两群落立木在Ⅱ级—Ⅴ级均有分布。(4)随着演替的进展,除了73 a群落盖度较56 a群落稍有下降外,其它演替群落盖度逐渐增加;群落胸高断面积表现出与盖度一致的变化趋势;群落个体密度则逐渐下降;群落物种多样性和均匀度不断提高,群落优势度则逐渐下降;群落相似性系数的变化表明在演替过程中群落物种组成结构没有发生明显变化。(5)群落变化及演替为:秋茄+桐花树群落→秋茄群落→白骨壤+秋茄群落→白骨壤群落。     

Birch leaf processing and associated macroinvertebrates in an acidified lake subjected to liming

In connection with the liming of an acid lake in southern Norway, a series of litter bags was placed in a pH-gradient in the limed lake and a nearby unlimed lake. During the experiments, which lasted two years, no significant differences in decomposition rates between the various localities at the same depth were noticed. The chironomid collector Tanytarsus pallidicornis was the dominant invertebrate species in the benthic samples. This demonstrates the importance of fine particulate organic matter as a food source in the lake. Collector dominance was lower in the leaf packs, which consisted mostly of coarse particulate organic matter. A poor fauna of detritus grazers probably contributed to the unchanged rates of decomposition of the leaves after liming.     

三峡成库后香溪河库湾底栖动物群落演变及库湾纵向分区格局动态

水库生态系统演替是水库生态学研究及水库管理过程中都比较关注的问题。三峡水库自2003年6月成库以来,有关水库生态系统演替的研究却鲜见报道。以三峡水库香溪河库湾底栖动物为研究对象,分析了自2003年8月—2010年7月3个不同蓄水阶段底栖动物群落的演变状况,并对库湾纵向分区格局的动态变化进行了探讨。结果表明,水库蓄水后,摇蚊科和颤蚓科成为第一批定殖者,并以摇蚊科为主;随后,颤蚓科中的霍甫水丝蚓逐渐成为优势类群;直到2004年4月仙女虫科的肥满仙女虫与霍甫水丝蚓共同主导群落。一期蓄水后约1a,底栖动物密度和物种数呈现出明显的增长趋势,空间上呈现出\"中间高、两头低\"的格局。库湾总体密度于2006年4月达到最高值,高达24146个/m2。二期蓄水导致底栖动物总密度显著降低,而三期蓄水后则变化相对较小。随着时间的增长,库湾底栖动物偶见种出现的频率逐渐降低,群落逐渐趋于稳定。基于TWINSPAN(two-way indicator species analysis)的分析,一期蓄水后期,香溪河库湾纵向上底栖动物群落结构呈现出稳定的分区格局,库湾中部区域呈现出相同的群落类型,无季节变化;而自二期蓄水开始,库湾纵向上大部分样点的群落类型发生改变,表明二期蓄水的干扰较强;之后呈现出季节性波动,此种格局与水位的季节波动相关联,表明三峡水库底栖动物逐渐适应水库周期性的调度,群落结构呈现稳定的季节性周期波动。     

Development of an Index of Trophic Completeness for benthic macroinvertebrate communities in flowing waters

The analysis of the trophic structure of benthic macroinvertebrate communities can be used in biological assessments of the condition of river ecosystems. Using the trophic, or functional approach, the Index of Trophic Completeness (ITC) was developed. The goal was to overcome the problems and drawbacks of using conventional diversity or biotic indices in biological assessments of rivers, such as limitation to distinct geographical regions or focus on species richness without regard for ecosystem functioning. Following an extensive review of the literature on the trophic characteristics of benthic macroinvertebrates, a large number of species (±300) were characterized according to a number of trophic criteria: plant:animal ratio in the diet, feeding mechanism, food size, food acquisition behaviour, and energy and substance transfers. On the basis of their trophic characteristics, the species could be divided into 12 trophic groups. After examination of data from geographically diverse rivers, it was concluded that any undisturbed riverine benthic macroinvertebrate community should be represented by members of each of these 12 trophic groups, with each group fulfilling a function in the benthic community. Being a community which plays a central role in the functioning of the aquatic ecosystem, the benthic invertebrates are expected to respond to disturbances to the hydrobiocoenose. The outcome of an ITC assessment is clearly presentable in the form of a pie graph with 12 wedges, each representing one of the 12 defined trophic groups. Functionally complete communities are represented by 12 wedges; a blank wedge indicates that a trophic group is not represented. This paper describes the preliminary developments in the ITC method, its potential as a biological assessment method in rivers in different geographical zones, and presents examples of trial mappings of Russian and European rivers. The application of the ITC to these rivers demonstrated the absence of ITC trophic groups at sites under the influence of anthropogenic activity.     

林窗干扰与森林群落演替

林窗干扰是影响森林群落演替的一个重要因素。该文从林窗干扰和森林群落演替理论及林窗对森林群落微环境、植物入侵和定居、群落结构、群落演替的影响等方面简要介绍了当前国内外有关林窗干扰与森林群落演替的研究现状和研究前景。